GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

1.3: Conventions

This section explains the notational conventions that are used in this manual. You may want to skip this section and refer back to it later.

• Some Terms Explanation of terms we use in this manual.
• nil and t How the symbols nil and t are used.
• Evaluation Notation The format we use for examples of evaluation.
• Printing Notation The format we use for examples that print output.
• Error Messages The format we use for examples of errors.
• Buffer Text Notation The format we use for buffer contents in examples.
• Format of Descriptions Notation for describing functions, variables, etc.