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: Questions about parser state Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:08:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380938955 16959 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2013 02:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 02:09:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 05 04:09:18 2013 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 1VSHIv-0004jK-Hu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:09:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSHIu-0006q3-Qo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSHIe-0006pj-Fy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSHIX-0005aq-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSHIW-0005aj-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSHIV-0004Lu-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:08:47 +0200 Original-Received: from 76-10-134-31.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.134.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:08:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-134-31.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 04:08:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-134-31.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cx9AjNRVA3Hx8mLxjbrVEzOXF1M= 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:93852 Archived-At: > 1. What does the "quote character" mean? Does it mean "'" in Lisp? If > so, what about "," and "#"? No, it's typically the \ char. > 2. What is comment style ‘a’? In (info "(elisp) Syntax Flags"): "A > comment style is a set of flags ‘b’, ‘c’, and ‘n’, so there can be up > to 8 different comment styles." I can't find an ‘a’ style. `a' is the comment style when neither `b' nor `c' is present. Stefan