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> Why? While Emacs Lisp does indeed not have
> multi-line comments, there
> are commands in Emacs for commenting and
> uncommenting regions.

Thanks.  I should have found these on my own.

> Reloading the entire file is the real kludge here.
> Reading this
> section in the manual should be helpful:
> 
> (info "(emacs)Lisp Eval")
> 
> > 2) I see alot of lists of the form (foo . bar).
> What does the dot
> > specify?
> 
> (info "(elisp)Dotted Pair Notation")

Thanks for both pointers. I will read them post haste
:)

-exits

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