From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using setq to create lists based on other lists... Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:50:42 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <878t14dbms.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544028814 11919 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2018 16:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:53:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 17:53:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gUaQT-0002zi-F4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:53:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUaSZ-0007ne-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:55:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.cs.hut.fi!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="742e6ad88036f24b0ef038e615c3f32b"; logging-data="25562"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FQfTT1KNKS/hiISWfN0kS" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Txvp7xCFkCZUGQpQPDtRe5hH4xg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224738 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118867 Archived-At: In article , Drew Adams wrote: > Lisp is typically not a Lisp learner's first language. It often was back in the days of Multics Emacs (30 years ago). It was pretty common for non-programmers to learn it so they could customize their editor. Although often they just learned enough to set a few customization variables, not write complex extensions; that's the kind of thing that's now automated with M-x customize. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***