* confusion about quote @ 2012-11-05 1:55 Will Parsons 2012-11-05 2:35 ` B. T. Raven 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: confusion about quote 2012-11-05 2:35 ` B. T. Raven @ 2012-11-05 23:16 ` Will Parsons 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread 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. -- Will ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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