From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:19:30 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87aazdwuwd.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256604057 22374 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2009 00:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 01:40:51 2009 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 1N2a7D-0004Pu-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2a7C-0006a6-O2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net eup48YE1vmmDModdvLRMfg5NLAcYzTvZfN1Keu6dZ0QRa9cN68 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NWI3ZDBmOTFiNDk1Yjk2YzNhMGQxNmU1YTQ4MzFlYThiMjE0ODE2Zg== sha1:9mKFNL9Jq2GelxlvEyMBifxflGE= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174177 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:69261 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > I'm hoping someone will be kind enough to demonstrate a couple of > brief conditionals in elisp... if and if else. > > This may be a chintzy way to do it but I really do not want to pound > away at elisp intro and the elisp manual for hours. I usually > start seeing red at the 4-5 paragraph and usually have been able to > learn what I needed to know in things like perl and shell scripting > from just a few real live examples that do something at least close > to what I am trying then I can edit and tinker until I start to sort > of `get it'. Then why wouldn't you write a perl script to find some .el files on your hard disk, and see if there's not some instances of if expressions in them? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__