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-* Internals: (internals). XEmacs Internals Manual.
+* Internals: (internals). XEmacs Internals Manual.
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Copyright (C) 1992 - 1996 Ben Wing. Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Sun
displayable representations, and XEmacs provides a function
`redisplay()' that ensures that the display of all such objects matches
their internal state. Most of the time, a standard Lisp environment is
-in a "read-eval-print" loop - i.e. "read some Lisp code, execute it,
-and print the results". XEmacs has a similar loop:
+in a "read-eval-print" loop--i.e. "read some Lisp code, execute it, and
+print the results". XEmacs has a similar loop:
* read an event
installed by the top-level event loop, is executed; this prints
out the error and continues.) Routines can also specify cleanup
code (called an "unwind-protect") that will be called when control
- exits from a block of code, no matter how that exit occurs - i.e.
+ exits from a block of code, no matter how that exit occurs--i.e.
even if a function deeply nested below it causes a non-local exit
back to the top level.
"see" the local variable you declared. This is actually
considered a bug in Emacs Lisp and in all other early dialects of
Lisp, and was corrected in Common Lisp. (In Common Lisp, you can
- still declare dynamically scoped variables if you want to - they
- are sometimes useful - but variables by default are "lexically
+ still declare dynamically scoped variables if you want to--they
+ are sometimes useful--but variables by default are "lexically
scoped" as in C.)
For those familiar with Lisp, Emacs Lisp is modelled after MacLisp,
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