From: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:52:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ojecqey.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC50A22.608@pinyon.org>
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Russell L. Carter wrote:
>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!
These things are called backquotes, discussed in GNU Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual Section 13.5.
HTH
-- David
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 0:19 Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14 9:52 ` David Maus [this message]
2010-04-14 16:13 ` Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14 9:58 ` Thomas Jost
2010-04-14 15:05 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-14 16:31 ` Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14 13:35 ` John Wiegley
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