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Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this defcustom?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:33:32 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> | STANDARD is an expression specifying the variable's standard
> | value.  It should not be quoted.
> |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The underscored text means that you shouldn't write

   '(concat foo bar)
but
   (concat foo bar)

I.e. his 'notes is perfectly correct: it's an unquoted *expression*
which will return the symbol `notes' when evaluated.


        Stefan




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