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From: Adam <nospam@example.com>
Subject: Re: beginner el form
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 20:13:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5a031$a8c$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vf1x8osh0k.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk


Thanks Phil. All input-contributions welcome. 

I will look into edebug, its new to me. And sounds a little like the gdb
thing for C that is so successful to this very day. 

So thanks for the tip,   Adam.  

>   Adam> As an elisp novice, I'm dropping into it from time to time,
>   Adam> and making progress with the elisp manual and introduction. Am
>   Adam> spending most of my other time calling cmucl as a listener
>   Adam> with c-x l and c-x c-e. The cmucl documentation is good, so am
>   Adam> having fun.
> 
> My advice is learn to use the debugger (edebug) straight away if you
> have not already done so. I normally write lisp into a .el file,
> evaluating and debugging as I go. The use of edebug is great and saves
> an awful lot of test evaluation, as you can generally see what is
> wrong pretty quickly.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-05  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 14:00 beginner el form Adam
2005-04-03 22:23 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-04-04  4:49 ` B.T. Raven
2005-04-04  6:13 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-04-04 21:54 ` Adam
2005-04-04  8:04   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-04 12:35     ` Albert Reiner
2005-04-05 12:10       ` Adam
2005-04-29 20:42 ` Alan Wehmann
2005-04-30  6:22   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-01  0:47     ` Adam
2005-04-30 10:57       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-01  3:39         ` Joe Corneli
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1.1114919653.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-02  2:18           ` Adam
2005-05-01 10:37             ` Tim X
2005-05-01 15:50             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-03 11:09             ` Phillip Lord
2005-05-05  0:13               ` Adam [this message]
2005-05-04 10:14                 ` Phillip Lord
2005-05-01  2:42       ` Tim X

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