From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:17:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <13173afe-f51c-4c67-b738-1949f2b28b5f@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <92306553-cbe8-4b0b-b628-b7d83134986d@d10g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223572712 14372 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 17:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: harven Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 19:19:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnzAT-0008KP-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:19:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knz9P-0002Qk-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Knz8q-0002HJ-Cz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Knz8p-0002Ga-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48595 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knz8p-0002GR-Bu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:44928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Knz8p-0003Wt-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAHa009.bah.pppool.de [77.135.160.9]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63F118095066; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:17:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (harven@free.fr's message of "Thu\, 09 Oct 2008 17\:26\:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58631 Archived-At: harven wrote: > Xah writes: > >> ... 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 (...)) This is essential, too. Because otherwise (quote a) could mean either 'a or '(a). regards, Nikolaj Schumacher