From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ziqianggeoffreychen@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacs document? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355828425 1468 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2012 11:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:00:25 +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 Dec 18 12:00:40 2012 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 1Tkuud-0004HR-R2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:00:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkuuO-0003nr-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:00:24 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.75.230 with SMTP id f6mr258282paw.25.1355828200693; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.50.154.132 with SMTP id vo4mr401970igb.7.1355828200448; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!kr7no9734270pbb.0!news-out.google.com!6ni50351pbd.1!nntp.google.com!kt20no11034803pbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.192.197.4; posting-account=cy6lHAoAAACmukpCkhT7xxScYLlSqZiB Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.192.197.4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:56:40 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195874 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:88191 Archived-At: Hi all, When I read Emacs documents, I often see this kind of notation: `' For example, `q' in the following sentence: setq does not evaluate symbol; it sets the symbol that you write. We say that this argument is automatically quoted. The `q' in setq stands for "quoted." (source: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_146.html) One more example, `#level' in the following sentence: Emacs detects such recursion and prints `#level' instead of recursively printing an object already being printed. (source: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_267.html) Anybody knows the philosophy? Thank you for your reply. Best regards, Geoffrey Chen