From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: confusion about quote Date: 5 Nov 2012 23:16:24 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: wbparsons@cshore.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352157618 11203 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2012 23:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:20:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 06 00:20:28 2012 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 1TVVxv-0008OK-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVVxl-0001ti-Ci for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:20:13 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jd7v7SBvVRHjByYD0bNJxQsNEG9SnqU+WL3dzHmw9JQkSOavoo+MMBDODDL712R1qB Cancel-Lock: sha1:HHX/r7GdrbHlWJwxTJ2OcC4psTs= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195213 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:87541 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > Die Sun Nov 04 2012 19:55:36 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Will > Parsons scripsit: > >> In looking at some elisp that I found somewhere, I see: >> >> (setq whitespace-style (quote (face lines-tail tabs trailing))) >> >> How does this differ from: >> >> (setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail tabs trailing)) >> >> if in fact it does? >> >> (I found the description of the function "quote" to be somewhat >> confusing.) > > Heus tu, Vilhelme! Here's the straight dope: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Quoting.html > > where it says "the read syntax 'x is an abbreviation for (quote x)." A, Edwarde (aut Corve?) gratias ago. -- Will