Emacs Lisp Cheat Sheet
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Special form
special form has its own rule for which arguments are evaluated
| Purpose | Forms |
| Definition | defconst defmacro defun defvar function |
| Binding constructs | let let* function |
| Conditional evaluation | and cond if or |
| Sequential evaluation | prog1 prog2 progn |
| Iteration | while |
| Syntactic extension | |
| Quoting | quote |
| Assignment | setq setq-default |
| Nonlocal Exits | catch condition-case unwind-protect |
| Save | save-current-buffer save-excursion save-restriction save-window-excursion |
| Other | interactive track-mouse with-output-to-temp-buffer |