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 20:22:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87d20jbqbj.fsf@web.de> References: <87vbebg1fs.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r3ozy9pf.fsf@web.de> <87si9ffys0.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435256613 24996 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2015 18:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:23:33 +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 20:23:24 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 1Z8Bo3-0001nH-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Bo2-0002yR-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Bnq-0002xf-S8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Bnm-0000cO-2F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Bnl-0000cI-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Bnk-0001Vr-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:23:04 +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 20:23:04 +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 20:23:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 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:yIW4vNsqbGUgLUMMJA4g8zMto24= 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:105166 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > Seeing a simplistic (though working in typical/correct cases) version > might be rather illuminating, no? Yes. Want to give it a try? > > It's also a reader macro so that you can write > > > > `thing > Interesting. Where is that defined? Since you can't define reader macros via Emacs Lisp, it's hardcoded in the C sources, "lread.c" AFAICT. Michael.