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Re: confusion about quote
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B. T. Raven |
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Re: confusion about quote |
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Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:35:36 -0600 |
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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:
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> (setq whitespace-style (quote (face lines-tail tabs trailing)))
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> How does this differ from:
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> (setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail tabs trailing))
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> if in fact it does?
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> (I found the description of the function "quote" to be somewhat
> confusing.)
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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