From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom? Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:33:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y4vgo0dp.fsf@gmail.com> <87ha21g8qr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406586863 26260 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2014 22:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:34:23 +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 Jul 29 00:34:16 2014 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 1XBtUm-0006hg-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:34:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBtUl-0007mn-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBtUU-0007ll-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBtUL-0002sb-WB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBtUL-0002sL-Pg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBtUJ-0006X1-So for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:33:47 +0200 Original-Received: from dyn.83-228-141-040.dsl.vtx.ch ([83.228.141.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:33:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by dyn.83-228-141-040.dsl.vtx.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:33:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn.83-228-141-040.dsl.vtx.ch User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ep2vohih1y0MTguadxFXbGv0gdI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:98966 Archived-At: > | STANDARD is an expression specifying the variable's standard > | value. It should not be quoted. > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The underscored text means that you shouldn't write '(concat foo bar) but (concat foo bar) I.e. his 'notes is perfectly correct: it's an unquoted *expression* which will return the symbol `notes' when evaluated. Stefan