From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:09:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbqhull4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y4vgo0dp.fsf@gmail.com> <87ha21g8qr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406589036 17694 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2014 23:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:10:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 29 01:10:29 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 1XBu3i-0002Zx-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBu3h-000120-Ow for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBu3P-0000xm-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBu3J-0004KE-HY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBu3J-0004KA-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBu3H-0002Qv-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:09:55 +0200 Original-Received: from e178058217.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.58.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:09:55 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178058217.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:09:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178058217.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:so838zv/taPPL9edqPEVV1UH3LE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:98969 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> | STANDARD is an expression specifying the variable's standard >> | value. It should not be quoted. >> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The underscored text means that you shouldn't write > > '(concat foo bar) > but > (concat foo bar) > > I.e. his 'notes is perfectly correct: it's an unquoted *expression* > which will return the symbol `notes' when evaluated. Ok, precision matters, so a quoted symbol is at the same time an unquoted *expression* that returns the symbol itself ... while an unquoted symbol in an unquoted *expression* that tries to return the symbols value (as a variable) ... (?) -- cheers, Thorsten