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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