From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:55:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87siljzpni.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87y4vc7wc5.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406678157 17474 80.91.229.3 (29 Jul 2014 23:55:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 01:55:49 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XCHFE-0003bq-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:55:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCHFE-0003kd-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57341) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCHEq-0003hF-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCHEi-0005ZH-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.35]:40881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCHEh-0005Yx-R1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF659862B for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 27161 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2014 23:55:14 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.57.124]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 29 Jul 2014 23:55:14 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87y4vc7wc5.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:06:02 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.35 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98988 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > () Robert Thorpe > () Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:46:10 +0100 > > '(something) is just an abbreviation for > (quote something). > > This is not correct. > > '(something) =E2=89=A1 (quote (something)) > which evals to a list of one element, the symbol =E2=80=98something=E2= =80=99 > i.e., =3D> (something) I agree, you're right. BR, Robert Thorpe