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From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:42:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7833e282-8e0b-4b5a-8aee-d64d88dfe41f@g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9621.1256738653.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> In any case, either *scratch* or an Emacs-Lisp buffer is generally better than
> `M-:' for extended experimenting, because, as Thi said, you can see the input

I'm wondering why nobody mentions M-x ielm for experimenting?

It just needs a setting the arrow movements to history-navigation
(i.e. swapping <C-up> and <up>) and it gets look and feel of  a
"normal" REPL-shell.

Very beginner friendly!

Cheers
  Rolf


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27  0:08 conditionals in elisp Harry Putnam
2009-10-27  0:25 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27  1:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-27  5:33   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-27  7:37     ` Drew Adams
2009-10-28  9:10       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-10-28 14:03         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.9621.1256738653.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-28 15:42           ` LanX [this message]
2009-10-28 20:42             ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 16:19         ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]         ` <mailman.9630.1256746811.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 19:31           ` Joseph Brenner
2009-10-27  5:50 ` tomas
     [not found] <mailman.9533.1256602126.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27  0:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27  2:52 ` LanX
2009-10-27 10:36   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 12:09     ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27 17:03       ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-28 12:07         ` Richard Riley
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9555.1256645401.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 12:31       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 13:02         ` Richard Riley
     [not found]         ` <mailman.9557.1256648714.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 16:04           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 17:26         ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]         ` <mailman.9572.1256664440.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 18:37           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 19:40             ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]             ` <mailman.9577.1256672457.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 21:14               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-28 14:05                 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-28 15:55                   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 17:45                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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