From: "Aurélien Bottazzini" <aurelien.bottazzini@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Problem understanding set-register syntax
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 10:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikeBq0Zsw8cEGQs2ZM8uOk=vxSEkeERX3Vi7abV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello everyone,
in my init.el I have
(set-register ?i '(file . "~/.emacs.d/init.el"))
which allows me to quickly jump to my init file using C-x r j i
But I don't really understand the syntax.
Why do I have to use the exclamation mark when I set the register?
Why can't I just use:
(set-register i '(file . "~/.emacs.d/init.el")) ; will say Symbol's value as
variable is void:i
I tried to search in the documentation for set-register and variable
definition but I did not find
anything to really explain it.
Thanks for any help.
Aurélien
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-05 9:51 Aurélien Bottazzini [this message]
2010-12-06 22:23 ` Problem understanding set-register syntax Drew Adams
2010-12-06 22:54 ` Drew Adams
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2010-12-06 13:47 Aurélien Bottazzini
2010-12-06 22:46 ` PJ Weisberg
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