Re: abbrevs and cursor control

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Oh, how might I have spotted the correct syntax.. from the help
> provided? 

It says, if HOOK is non-nil, it should be a function of no args.

In Emacs, symbols (with quote in front) are used as functions.  For
example, consider (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill).  It
adds the function turn-on-auto-fill to the variable text-mode-hook.
See how the quote is used in front of turn-on-auto-fill when a
function should be passed?

Note that the above also uses a quote in front of the variable.
That's similar to `set': (set 'x 3).  Normally, you use setq instead
of set -- the q stands for quote so you can omit the first quote...

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