From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fren Zeee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment on Emacs Lisp Introduction Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280562233 23124 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2010 07:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dani Moncayo To: bob@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 31 09:43:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Of6jX-0006PI-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:43:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Of6jW-0001Pu-G5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50869 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Of6jN-0001Pp-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Of6jM-0002MJ-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:35902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Of6jM-0002MC-Ml; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so2663385iwn.0 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QPzo1m5rsRovCV91CvQIGmzrM+97iPT3mVOey5/GlJI=; b=PDzwtyrEmjLtO/lhWLEeWFzjyNeB6BNxcBpr8PbE5pzC1MKPfUr/kEXgMQN0QoUhr/ Aj1/XiXn/fMEb/CwZwrpLlR+wOtB9vkZ68k5nlnfUyol5mpMDPo6Xl6L22cmHHaBC2fj w95WR2cu1slhDktVQAd6tx0xuw3A72iYQI44I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FGrG2TUwbtTgUjUVCO76mzVH0pAB2b5wOW6cy3wLbqoSHMMh4nck3/0JYLprA9z0HZ 5YF5HIfwJev674keQ7Lh/NmOTH+8Szy9UqFyWLdxq3XTEgIzn7itOm3bKjXAzGRsnd0y ApDh0icRrix+TnuOGuR4R/0yGjZrsocEEymgg= Original-Received: by 10.231.36.69 with SMTP id s5mr3142389ibd.58.1280562218666; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.199.80 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:43:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128045 Archived-At: Robert, does your intro book explain things like how to get the full definition of a function like for example next-line which is a down arrow (symbol-function 'next-line) #[(arg) "=08\203& [next-line-add-newlines arg abbrev-mode 1 nil " " line-move (line-move arg) ((... ...))] 3 1337315 "p"] I could not figure out from online doc and apropos how to do it. Basically, I want lisp code to see how it maintains to try to got to the same column below unlike for example forward-line Franz On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > =A0 =A0But anyway, this question isn't very relevant at all, so, ignore i= t if you > =A0 =A0don't see the issue. > > I don't see the issue; I agree it is redundant, but the intro is supposed > to be redundant. =A0Maybe if I were rewriting it, I would remove some of > the redundancy; but I am not. > > -- > =A0 =A0Robert J. Chassell > =A0 =A0bob@gnu.org =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 bob@rattlesnake.com > =A0 =A0http://www.rattlesnake.com =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http= ://www.teak.cc > >