From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the :eval form ? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:21:26 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339179922 22523 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2012 18:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:25:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 20:25:21 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 1Sd3s2-0004Kf-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:25:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd3s1-0004GS-Ry for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:25:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="ePtxJaRXJPFeIWBMlKfZaA"; logging-data="19179"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ZD2IlCGaDxnxLo9ER5ywm" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3pLWrjHxHiUZGqCZ1XmaxhuW3yE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192759 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:85165 Archived-At: In article , Philippe M. Coatmeur wrote: > Hi ; I'm trying to get some information about this (e?)lisp form > > (add-to-list 'global-mode-string > '(:eval (mail-bug-mode-line-all "2"))) > > But it appears to be really hard to google for it, as both > > https://www.google.com/search?q=":eval" > https://www.google.com/search?q="eval" > > Return the same results... (apparently google does not care for > punctuation) > > How can I find information about this special form ? When I ask emacs > using C-h f with point over it, it acts like google and shows me the > "plain eval" info page... :( It's not a special form, it's specific to the way the value of global-mode-string is interpreted. If you read its documentation, you'll see that it's used within mode-line-format. If you then read its documentation, it describes all the special keywords that can be used within it. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***