From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: left brackets insert both Date: 25 Mar 2005 12:19:18 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1111781958.459903.305520@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1111765040.509327.116280@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87ll8b2022.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> <1111769127.619222.303620@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1111772988.425339.47700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1111775012.703198.185290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1111780392.575165.138760@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1111781127.783436.91790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111782392 26775 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 20:26:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 21:26:32 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEvN3-0003Dd-Uz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEvcc-0006P7-2b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:41:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.43.187.239 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1111781963 32016 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2005 20:19:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:19:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1111781127.783436.91790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.43.187.239; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129606 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25157 cool. i am a little confused by this macro... i have only ever written defun's before. why is this a defmac and not a defun? a few more questions if you don't mind... what does the "p\nP" argument to interactive do? what is "cnt raw"? why do you call self-insert-command? sorry for these trivial questions, i have only picked up elisp by reading .emacs files, editing existing functions and creating very simple new ones.