From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: list of elisp primitives ?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 07:34:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99624762-B6FB-4E23-B1A9-D5106C3C4EF5@traduction-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736dcflyo.fsf@telefonica.net>
> On Dec 22, 2019, at 23:56, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
> writes:
>
>> That's 1290 functions...
>>
>> The reference seems to have 1608 functions and 294 commands, so those
>> primitives are not even a "useful subset" of emacs lisp functions...
>>
>> I guess that was a naïve idea. So I'll just have to go through the
>> reference and try to find myself a minimaly useful subset (which is
>> what the Intro should be about, btw.)
>
> The Elisp manual describes the most relevant functions for each topic.
Which is not a minimally useful subset. Also, the description is not always reader-friendly. Cf. my earlier comment about `unwind-protect' and the way it's described in the reference. Even after reading the docstrings I can't understand the description.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-22 2:59 list of elisp primitives ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 3:21 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-12-22 3:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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2019-12-22 4:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
[not found] ` <CADs++6j+niJy3hvrTEJ-LrqcitFuffX=1Duca7pU30a8qfh_zg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-12-22 4:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 15:01 ` Stephen Berman
2019-12-22 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-26 17:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 18:00 ` arthur miller
2019-12-26 18:09 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-26 18:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-26 21:17 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-12-27 0:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-22 14:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-22 22:34 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2019-12-22 19:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
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