* confusion about quote
@ 2012-11-05 1:55 Will Parsons
2012-11-05 2:35 ` B. T. Raven
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From: Will Parsons @ 2012-11-05 1:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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.)
--
Will
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* Re: confusion about quote
2012-11-05 1:55 confusion about quote Will Parsons
@ 2012-11-05 2:35 ` B. T. Raven
2012-11-05 23:16 ` Will Parsons
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2012-11-05 2:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Die Sun Nov 04 2012 19:55:36 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Will
Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid> 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)."
Ed
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* Re: confusion about quote
2012-11-05 2:35 ` B. T. Raven
@ 2012-11-05 23:16 ` Will Parsons
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From: Will Parsons @ 2012-11-05 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
B. T. Raven wrote:
> Die Sun Nov 04 2012 19:55:36 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Will
> Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid> 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.
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Will
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