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Oct 15, 2016 at 01:02
Today's Emacs adventure: when does Emacs actually expand your macros?
Undefined reference to it. · Issue #11 · Wilfred/suggest.el
Undefined reference to it. · Issue #11 · Wilfred/suggest.el
I downloaded the mode today from melpa and tried running it, but unfortunately I get undefined reference to the "it" variable. The version of suggest is 20160807.1830 and my emacs version is 24.4.1.

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