From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: learning Emacs Lisp Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:32:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87k5bbjzvo.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ljvrl2l0.fsf@gmail.com> <3dc09d96-f4cd-43ef-b327-a5e43dfa7022@g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226482255 29962 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2008 09:30:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:30:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 10:31:56 2008 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 1L0C4m-00030A-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0C3e-0001PW-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:30:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226460731 13027 127.0.0.1 (12 Nov 2008 03:32:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164341 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:30:20 -0500 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:59679 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > > (to me, it is entirely distracting because i do not have working > > familiarity with Common Lisp or C, nor do i care about them. However, > > i'm the world's top expert in Mathematica, but vast majority of > > potential readers of elisp doc are not familiar with Mathematica.) B. T. Raven wrote: > I thought that Stephen Wolfram (author of _A New Kind of Science_) was > the top expert. Yes, he's one of the top expert in programing Mathematica. > Is this another exaggeration like the statistics you > pull out of a hat?: e.g. "99.9999% of all southpaws are touch typists." did u pull that out of a hat? > Remember that all majorities are not "vast," in fact the vast majority > of them are not even majorities but only pluralities. pluralities? how about multitudality? News: Xah discovered that multitudality of tech geekers are idiotic when it comes to critical thinking. can you try the command-frequency.el and let me know your results? because recently someone made it into a full featured minor mode and it's now very easy to use. It also saves between emacs restart. bottom: http://xahlee.org/emacs/command-frequency.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84