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From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:26:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ljwxaixd.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 92306553-cbe8-4b0b-b628-b7d83134986d@d10g2000pra.googlegroups.com

Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Could it be that the “quote” just takes one argument?
>
> Egads. This costed me few hours.
>
> Am filing a bug report on this...
>
> ... i always thought that the syntactical form
>
> '(...)
>
> is just equivalent to
>
> (quote ...)

From the elisp manual,
...  Thus, the read syntax `'x' is an abbreviation for `(quote x)' ...
So '(...) is equivalent to (quote (...))


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 18:46 problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure Xah
2008-10-08 21:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found] ` <mailman.619.1223500981.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09  0:02   ` Xah
2008-10-09  0:54     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-09  2:25       ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]       ` <mailman.643.1223519147.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:18         ` Xah
2008-10-09 11:13     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.637.1223513718.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:04       ` Xah
2008-10-09 15:26         ` harven [this message]
2008-10-09 17:17           ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.677.1223550826.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:29       ` Xah
2008-10-09 17:16         ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]         ` <mailman.719.1223572620.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:40           ` Xah
2008-10-09 23:27             ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]             ` <mailman.739.1223594868.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-10  0:20               ` Xah
2008-10-10  0:45             ` Tim X

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