From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Constructing code template systems
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:36:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmeobqe2.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tinfn0$3u1$1@ciao.gmane.io
John Haman wrote:
>> code template systems
>
> Like macros?
There are macros in Elisp and they are code that produce code,
this makes them more difficult to write and debug, I'm unsure
what the advantages are but there are certain occasions where
it is practical to do, someone else has to fill you in on
those typical cases ...
There are also keyboard macros that are really poor-man's
programming. In the real world, while it is okay to be poor,
in the sense it doesn't, or shouldn't make your life any less
valuable to you or anyone else, it certainly isn't cool to be
poor and in the Elisp world, where programming is free of
charge, there is even less reason to ...
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-17 22:36 Constructing code template systems Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-19 0:17 ` John Haman
2022-10-19 0:36 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-19 0:58 ` Heime
2022-10-19 1:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-19 4:12 ` Jean Louis
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