From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs development... Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:46:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1enz453.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56B1C272-CB13-4793-930C-9F6B96F9856B@traduction-libre.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17702"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 08:48:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKnQ-0004Ku-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49312 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKnO-0005uj-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKmE-0004RH-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKmC-0007s9-Ou; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2956 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHKmC-0000Tg-CZ; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:46:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <56B1C272-CB13-4793-930C-9F6B96F9856B@traduction-libre.org> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:07:59 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272763 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:07:59 +0900 > > It just occurred to me that there was no section in the manual dedicated to developing for emacs proper. The ELisp Intro and the ELisp Reference are supposed to be it. > Something like what the elisp intro is, but for general development. What is the difference between "general development" and the other kind (which presumably is covered in the Introduction)? > For ex. is there a way to see the values of variables as I run the code, so that I don't need to modify the values of "message" here and there to have clues ? See the chapter "Practicing Evaluation" in the ELisp Intro and "Evaluation" in the ELisp Reference. > What are the things I need to know and the basic steps to have a proper working environment to develop for emacs? There are too many of them to answer such a general question. It also depends on your style of development.