From: djfiander <david@fiander.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparing against the single-quote symbol '
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c908ea1-4718-4599-bce2-e93577614c0d@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85tzg1w75d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
On Jun 10, 1:07 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Sure. The symbol \' has no variable value by default. If you don't
> want to access its variable value but rather its symbol, you need to
> quote it. And sure enough
> '\'
> works just fine (even though it looks misleadingly symmetric).
Of course, if you want to see if the variable 'prefix' contains the a
single quote character, then you probably want to say
(equal prefix ?')
- David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 16:50 Comparing against the single-quote symbol ' Nordlöw
2008-06-10 17:07 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-10 17:25 ` djfiander [this message]
2008-06-10 21:06 ` Nordlöw
2008-06-10 21:46 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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