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inIn LaTeX code, @ should be treated as a letter,. There are any number of examples on tex.stackexchange, but

Undefined control sequence on \beamer@leftmargin indentationUndefined control sequence on \beamer@leftmargin indentation

\begin{frame}[fragile]{E}
\makeatletter
\hskip-\beamer@leftmargin
\makeatother
\lipsum[2]
\end{frame}

\beamer@leftmargin is a single token, but beamer is coloured and @leftmargin is left as unstyled text which makes the code very hard to read.

Technically, @ is not always a letter, but it is almost always a letter when appearing in code sections and is a far better default in a syntax highlighter.

in LaTeX code @ should be treated as a letter, any number of examples on tex.stackexchange but

Undefined control sequence on \beamer@leftmargin indentation

\begin{frame}[fragile]{E}
\makeatletter
\hskip-\beamer@leftmargin
\makeatother
\lipsum[2]
\end{frame}

\beamer@leftmargin is a single token but beamer is coloured and @leftmargin is left as unstyled text which makes the code very hard to read.

Technically @ is not always a letter but it is almost always a letter when appearing in code sections and is a far better default in a syntax highlighter.

In LaTeX code, @ should be treated as a letter. There are any number of examples on tex.stackexchange, but

Undefined control sequence on \beamer@leftmargin indentation

\begin{frame}[fragile]{E}
\makeatletter
\hskip-\beamer@leftmargin
\makeatother
\lipsum[2]
\end{frame}

\beamer@leftmargin is a single token, but beamer is coloured and @leftmargin is left as unstyled text which makes the code very hard to read.

Technically, @ is not always a letter, but it is almost always a letter when appearing in code sections and is a far better default in a syntax highlighter.

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in LaTeX code @ should be treated as a letter, any number of examples on tex.stackexchange but

Undefined control sequence on \beamer@leftmargin indentation

\begin{frame}[fragile]{E}
\makeatletter
\hskip-\beamer@leftmargin
\makeatother
\lipsum[2]
\end{frame}

\beamer@leftmargin is a single token but beamer is coloured and @leftmargin is left as unstyled text which makes the code very hard to read.

Technically @ is not always a letter but it is almost always a letter when appearing in code sections and is a far better default in a syntax highlighter.