From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to see that a variable holds t Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:09:24 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87fx6jro5n.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: <87fx6ncdvc.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> <87wrzysjty.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <878wcbicpc.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> <87aawrgk7e.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262810784 32255 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 20:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:46:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 21:46:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSclh-0006KH-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NScli-000164-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:46:14 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net VNrWJX65qOwTy5xSfPzwdgYzXwpGwGZo7xaNTeEVpU8xkyypS1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDE5OGI0MjQwMWEzNzBhOTlkZGI2MTUwYmQwM2Q1YmQ4YzBiYmUxMA== sha1:L3OdV5NO6Z5o3TYELzXfXv9DTQA= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176005 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:71092 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> As earlier said: it works, but I do not understand the difference >>> between: >>> ((t) 10) >>> and: >>> (t 10) >> >> The first only matches when gnus-idle-daemon-do-log is equal to t, >> whereas the second always matches (it's an "otherwise" clause). > > I was not clear with my question. This I know, but why does the first > only matches when gnus-idle-daemon-do-log is equal to t? Because this is what is specified and documented. Have you read C-h f case RET ? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/