Problem understanding set-register syntax

["Aurélien Bottazzini" <aurelien.bottazzini@gmail.com>]

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(sorry if this email is a duplicate, but the first one was lost apparently)

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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