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backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacs document?
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ziqianggeoffreychen |
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backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacs document? |
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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:56:40 -0800 (PST) |
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Hi all,
When I read Emacs documents, I often see this kind of notation:
`'
For example, `q' in the following sentence:
setq does not evaluate symbol; it sets the symbol that you write. We say that
this argument is automatically quoted. The `q' in setq stands for "quoted."
(source: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_146.html)
One more example, `#level' in the following sentence:
Emacs detects such recursion and prints `#level' instead of recursively
printing an object already being printed. (source:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_267.html)
Anybody knows the philosophy? Thank you for your reply.
Best regards,
Geoffrey Chen
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