Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure

[harven]

Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Could it be that the “quote” just takes one argument?
>
> Egads. This costed me few hours.
>
> Am filing a bug report on this...
>
> ... i always thought that the syntactical form
>
> '(...)
>
> is just equivalent to
>
> (quote ...)

>From the elisp manual,
...  Thus, the read syntax `'x' is an abbreviation for `(quote x)' ...
So '(...) is equivalent to (quote (...))