From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How the backquote and the comma really work? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:00 +0200 Message-ID: <871tgzbobr.fsf@web.de> References: <87vbebg1fs.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r3ozy9pf.fsf@web.de> <87si9ffys0.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d20jbqbj.fsf@web.de> <87pp4jfx9y.fsf@mbork.pl> <87mvznfx21.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435259200 3241 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2015 19:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:06:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 21:06:32 2015 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 1Z8CTi-0004as-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8CTh-0004wW-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8CTV-0004wP-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8CTS-0005Hb-LS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8CTS-0005GN-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8CTR-0004MU-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.253.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-253-113.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2mCHjDYw/eaxqDudq+6KZ0/uMGA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:105175 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > Wow. There seems to be nothing in either manual (the Emacs one and the > Elisp one) about reader macros. Yip, because this can't be defined or controlled from Lisp at all, so there is not much to describe. The few hardcoded reader macros that exist are explained individually in the manual (though the term "reader macro" may not even be used). Reader macros are common in Common Lisp, in Emacs Lisp, the few that exist are more a special aspect of syntax, not even worth to name them specially. Michael.