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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:49:23 -0400

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  > macroexp-let2 has several straight quotes later in the docstring. Why 
  > would we consider the first backtick unmatched?

I can't understand the doc string for macroexp-let2.
Can anyone explain to me what this macro is supposed
to do, and offer a concrete example of its use?

When I understand it, I can write a doc string for it that avoids
anything confusing in the quoting, and that is comprehensible.

At this point, all I can say is that V is a metasyntactic variable,
not literal Lisp code.  So it should be capitalized, not quoted.

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