RE: How the backquote and the comma really work?

[Drew Adams]

> > Interesting.  I have print-quoted set to nil, however, M-:
> > (eval-expression, or in my case - icicle-pp-eval-expression) does
> > not show what you have here.  Does eval-expression (or its Icicles
> > counterpart) mess with print-quoted?
> 
> AFAICT the Icicles version uses the pp ("pretty print") library.  pp
> binds `print-quoted' unconditionally to t when printing.

Right, on both counts.

Marcin, you can use `eval-expression' instead of `M-:' (i.e., even
with Icicles):

M-x eval-expression RET

Eval: (let ((print-quoted nil)) (read "`',foo")) RET

(\` (quote (\, foo)))