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From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:29:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C03756.3030108@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <epp8c5$3ha$1@sea.gmane.org>


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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>>>     (progn
>>>       (goto-char (point-max))
>>>       (beginning-of-line))
>>
>> Thanks, that's a bit simpler.  I'd seen that command before, but forgot
>> it (and probably never really understood what it did).
> 
> <pedantic>
> progn is technically not a command, which is a function with an
> interactive form at the beginning of its body (optionally preceded by a
> doc string).  progn is actually a special form, which is a primitive
> function (i.e. implemented in C) whose arguments are not evaluated
> before being passed to the function: instead, the special form is
> responsible for evaluating them as desired.
> 
> See the "Function Type", "Primitive Function Type", "Special Forms", and
> "Defining Commands" nodes of the Emacs Lisp manual.
> </pedantic>

Thanks for clarifying.  I'm still trying to get the feel of emacs lisp
(off and on).

Matthew Flaschen


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25  1:13 Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer Matthew Flaschen
2007-01-25  8:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-25 15:46   ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-01-25 15:57     ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-01-26  0:25       ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-01-30  6:00         ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-30 15:59           ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-01-31  5:10             ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-31  6:29               ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
2007-01-30  6:07       ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-30 16:02         ` Matthew Flaschen
     [not found] <mailman.3548.1169687602.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-27  5:40 ` Eric Eide
2007-01-27  7:36   ` Matthew Flaschen

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