From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom? Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:06:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87a97tn6f8.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y4vgo0dp.fsf@gmail.com> <87ha21g8qr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406542059 4701 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2014 10:07:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:07:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 28 12:07:33 2014 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 1XBhq8-0005rQ-PR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBhq8-0004c3-9C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBhpr-0004al-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBhpk-0004gc-JZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBhpk-0004gJ-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBhpg-0005fG-Ld for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:07:04 +0200 Original-Received: from g231225109.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:07:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231225109.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:07:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231225109.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uRX1H5wIDsWWh5GafGN3Wgw+6vA= 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:98962 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Thorsten Jolitz writes: Hi Tassilo, >> I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but what is wrong with this >> defcustom: >> >> ,---- >> | (defcustom org-x-style 'notes >> | "Possible styles for diagrams." >> | :group 'org-x >> | :type '(choice (const :tag "Sync-bars" 'sync-bars) >> | (const :tag "Partitions" 'partitions) >> | (const :tag "Notes" 'notes))) >> `---- > > ,----[ C-h f defcustom RET ] > | defcustom is a Lisp macro in `custom.el'. > | > | (defcustom SYMBOL STANDARD DOC &rest ARGS) > | > | Declare SYMBOL as a customizable variable. > | SYMBOL is the variable name; it should not be quoted. > | STANDARD is an expression specifying the variable's standard > | value. It should not be quoted. > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > `---- Right, I fixed this too ... thx. Quoting symbols is done so often that unquoted symbols somehow look wrong (when unaware of dealing with a macro ...) -- cheers, Thorsten