From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: first emacs lisp script: hello world Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:18:37 +0100 Message-ID: <4759806D.7080809@gmail.com> References: <7A8AFE3F49003F46B77954A8E6A7E32C4F9325@atl2corpx2.corp.interland.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197048185 10677 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 17:23:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stewart Haddock Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 07 18:23:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0guh-0002AM-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0guQ-0000qo-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gqp-0007UG-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gqn-0007Tb-R7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gqn-0007TU-Ii for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0gqn-0000oj-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65047 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J0gqi-0004OS-5X; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:18:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <7A8AFE3F49003F46B77954A8E6A7E32C4F9325@atl2corpx2.corp.interland.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071206-0, 2007-12-06), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1J0gqi-0004OS-5X. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1J0gqi-0004OS-5X ac5c9cfbe1fc296a8d70f6a25dcf49fe X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49913 Archived-At: Stewart Haddock wrote: > All right.. Here comes the new guy. > > > > I downloaded emacs, but I can not figure out how to create a hello world > script and run it. I know this is incredibly basic, but when you are > doing this stuff by yourself it is not always obvious. Can someone > point the way? Maybe http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryCode or a simple hello-world: (defun hello-world() (interactive) (message "Hello!")) put that in your *Scratch* buffer, do M-x eval-buffer and then M-x hello-world