GNU bug report logs - #13422
24.2.91; Feature request: Add a macro always expanding to nil

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:58:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.2.91

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13422: 24.2.91;
	Feature request: Add a macro always expanding to nil
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:50:37 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> (quote ...) does nearly the same.

Right.  But it accepts only one argument, else you get compiler errors.

It is useful to be able to group several forms in one top level
`discard'.  This way you have one sexp, can copy or uncomment it as a
whole, or jump to the beginning/end of it easily etc.

Michael.
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