Dan Davison wrote:
Thomas Jost writes:
I had the same question a few months ago. I googled something like "lisp
backquote comma" and found these links:
- http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter20.html
- http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/macros.html
And for a scarily in-depth tutorial on
David Maus wrote:
Russell L. Carter wrote:
These things are called backquotes, discussed in GNU Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual Section 13.5.
Ah. Looking at that section, "backquote" instead of "backtic", and
the comma is a "special marker". Exactly what I needed.
Much obliged,
Russell
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Thomas Jost writes:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:46 -0700, "Russell L. Carter"
> wrote:
>> 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
A back-quoted form is just like a quoted form, except every ,foo is substituted
by the evaluation of foo.
(defvar foo 123)
`(foo ,foo) => '(foo 123)
They can be nested:
`(foo `(foo ,,foo))
And lists can be directly interpolated:
(defvar foo '(123 456))
`(foo ,foo) => '(foo (123 4
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:46 -0700, "Russell L. Carter"
wrote:
> 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 elide
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 Ref
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 val