From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: No such function: nntp-request-accept-article solved
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:49:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ofajhwu1.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <it16nexl.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> (Clemens Fischer's message of "Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:15:50 +0200")
Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> wrote:
> i wrote 'all (symbol-p), and now i just tried setting it using M-x
> set-variable, which did not accept 'all, but plain all instead.
C-h f set-variable says: "VALUE is used literally, not evaluated."
So the quote isn't needed. If you provide a quote, the variable would
be set to the list (quote all).
> the code says this is a constant like
> nil. where is it defined, what does it mean?
The symbol all is not globally special like nil. The defcustom you're
looking at just uses the symbol as a value itself, and not as a
variable storing another value.
paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-14 0:33 clemens fischer
2002-09-14 1:36 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-09-14 18:09 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-09-14 21:33 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-09-16 15:15 ` Clemens Fischer
2002-09-27 22:49 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
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