From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russell L. Carter" Subject: Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics... Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:46 -0700 Message-ID: <4BC50A22.608@pinyon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1qMN-000253-Mu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:21:39 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33459 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1qMG-0001on-08 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:21:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1qKc-0001y1-Aa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:19:51 -0400 Received: from quine.pinyon.org ([65.101.5.249]:58895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1qKc-0001xm-3c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:19:50 -0400 Received: from [10.0.10.6] (feyerabend.gb.Pinyon.ORG [10.0.10.6]) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C883214C6DE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:24:44 -0700 (MST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi there, Many thanks for org-mode and all of its amazing capabilities. This elisp newbie (but fluent in many other languages) has a concrete and simple request: Where do I find good-enough documentation for the backtics prefixing the parenthesis and the commas prefixing the associative list values in the following code (lines of interest prefixed by "here->", uninteresting lines elided): (setq observer-base-dir "~/projects/blogs/observer") (setq observer-blog-dir (concat observer-base-dir "/jekyll/_posts")) (add-to-list 'org-publish-project-alist here-> `("observer-blog" here-> :base-directory ,observer-base-dir here-> :publishing-directory ,observer-blog-dir . . . here-> `("observer" :components ("observer-blog"))) I greatly prefer a pointer to the fundamental docs in lieu of an explanation here. I figured these out by mimicking working code, and they work for me. But what are these operators|delimiters actually doing? I have both the latest versions of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and the Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, sitting before me and they have been extensively interrogated, as has google. Yet still I have to bother the list. I'm sorry! Many thanks, Russell