From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: On definition of `kbd' Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: <85d58zrlti.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160575705 29328 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2006 14:08:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 11 16:08:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXehY-00049X-47 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:04:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXehX-0001Wc-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXehG-0001V1-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXehG-0001Uh-0A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXehF-0001UW-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXepG-0005kf-GI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GXehE-00020c-W9; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 6454A1CE169B; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Herbert Euler" In-Reply-To: (Herbert Euler's message of "Wed\, 11 Oct 2006 21\:55\:36 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:37990 Archived-At: "Herbert Euler" writes: > Have changed to "help-gnu-emacs". So, is this usage > of macro only suitable for cases the actual arguments > are constants? Is there anything unclear about the DOC string? It _says_ `string constant' explicitly. > I.e. > > (let ((x "x")) (kbd x)) > > will not pass compilation? You could try asking Emacs itself instead of the list. It will answer more reliably, faster, with less effort, and authoritatively. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum