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Re: abbrevs and cursor control
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: abbrevs and cursor control |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:23:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> Oh, how might I have spotted the correct syntax.. from the help
> provided?
It says, if HOOK is non-nil, it should be a function of no args.
In Emacs, symbols (with quote in front) are used as functions. For
example, consider (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill). It
adds the function turn-on-auto-fill to the variable text-mode-hook.
See how the quote is used in front of turn-on-auto-fill when a
function should be passed?
Note that the above also uses a quote in front of the variable.
That's similar to `set': (set 'x 3). Normally, you use setq instead
of set -- the q stands for quote so you can omit the first quote...
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