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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About `current-kill'
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:00:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3p5bmq2.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130318063242.6b5a5f6e70e148cfdcede7fb@gmail.com

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> In the definition of the function `current-kill':
>
> [...]
>       (let ((ARGth-kill-element
> 	     (nthcdr (mod (- n (length kill-ring-yank-pointer))
> 			  (length kill-ring))
> 		     kill-ring)))
> [...]
>
> I understand what `ARGth-kill-element' does (from its name).  But how
> does it work?  I cannot understand it.

ARGth-kill-element *does* nothing. It *is* a variable that takes the
value of the expression that begins with (nthcdr ...




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-17 22:32 About `current-kill' Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-18  0:00 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2013-03-18  0:38 ` Stephen Berman
2013-03-18  8:24   ` Xue Fuqiao

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