From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Locating file via load-path
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:35:52 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Friday, August 9th, 2024 at 10:30 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > Some people get confused over the args to` add-to-list',
> > > in particular, that it's a function, so it evaluates its
> > > args, so if you want to provide a variable literally
> > > then you need to quote it.
> >
> > Are you referring to quoting LIST-VAR ?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> > add-to-list expects the first argument to be the
> > symbol of a list variable, not the list itself.
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Which is why, if you want to pass a variable's
> symbol literally, you need to quote it: 'SYMBOL
> evals to SYMBOL.
>
> Arg LIST-VAR in code can be any sexp. It need not
> be something as obvious as 'var.
There should not be the problem you mention for the case of load-path
because all instances show that it is customarily quoted.
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2024-08-08 16:59 Locating file via load-path Heime
2024-08-08 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2024-08-08 19:09 ` Heime
2024-08-08 19:15 ` Heime
2024-08-08 19:42 ` Heime
2024-08-08 19:51 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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2024-08-08 20:07 ` Heime
2024-08-08 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2024-08-08 21:59 ` Heime
2024-08-08 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2024-08-08 22:35 ` Heime [this message]
2024-08-09 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-09 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2024-08-09 16:51 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-09 17:39 ` [External] : " Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-09 19:52 ` Arash Esbati
2024-08-10 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 13:35 ` Arash Esbati
2024-08-11 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 19:49 ` Arash Esbati
2024-08-11 21:07 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-08-11 21:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-09 5:28 ` [External] : " Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-09 5:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-09 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-08 18:38 ` Bruno Barbier
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