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Re: [Orgmode] Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics...
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Dan Davison |
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Re: [Orgmode] Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics... |
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Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:05:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Thomas Jost <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:46 -0700, "Russell L. Carter" <address@hidden>
> 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 elided):
>
> Hello,
>
> 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 lisp evaluation and macros (most
of which afaIaw translates fairly directly to elisp)
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
(I have a long way to go with that one...)
Dan
>
> Hope this helps :)
>
> Regards,