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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'TheLonelyStar'" <nabble@lonely-star.org>, <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: elisp questions for Advanced Closing brackets function
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:24:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c8baa6$c7706af0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17346961.post@talk.nabble.com>

> - How do I check if the character under (point) is a whitespace?

See function `looking-at'.

> - In an "if" statement, how do I put more than one expression 
> into the else case? Like this:
> (if condition (do-if-case) ((do-else-case) (do-more-else-case))

Just drop the parens around the else-case parts.

(if (some-test)
    (the-then-part)
  (an-else-part)
  (another-else-part)
  (and-another))

`if' allows any number of sexps in the else part. See also `cond' and `when'.

> - If I have a funcion like this:
> (defun adanced-closing-bracket (arg) ...)
> How do I compare (arg) to the character under point?

You can compare characters with `eq'. `char-after' picks up the character at a
given buffer position.

(eq arg (char-after (point)))

The onboard Elisp manual is your friend.
See also the onboard manual "Emacs Lisp Intro".





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 18:12 elisp questions for Advanced Closing brackets function TheLonelyStar
2008-05-20 18:24 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-20 20:04   ` TheLonelyStar
2008-05-20 20:19     ` Drew Adams
2008-05-21  6:18     ` Pierre Lorenzon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-21  8:47 Lorenzo Isella
     [not found] <mailman.11908.1211307132.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-21  9:09 ` Tim X
     [not found] <mailman.11944.1211359652.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-21 10:28 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-05-21 10:33   ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-05-21 18:30 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-05-21 18:40   ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-05-21 20:14     ` Ralf Angeli

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