From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:10:39 -0700 Message-ID: References: <45B80425.2070209@gatech.edu> <45B8D0F0.2030408@gatech.edu> <45B8D36B.8050102@gatech.edu> <45B94A73.1090603@gatech.edu> <45BF6B5C.5090709@gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170220295 3801 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 05:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:11:35 +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 Jan 31 06:11:18 2007 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 1HC7kR-000109-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:11:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HC7kQ-0007no-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HC7kE-0007nj-92 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HC7kB-0007nX-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HC7kB-0007nU-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HC7kB-0006xn-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HC7k1-000428-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:10:41 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:10:41 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:10:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45BF6B5C.5090709@gatech.edu> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:40786 Archived-At: Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote: >> (progn >> (goto-char (point-max)) >> (beginning-of-line)) > > Thanks, that's a bit simpler. I'd seen that command before, but forgot > it (and probably never really understood what it did). progn is technically not a command, which is a function with an interactive form at the beginning of its body (optionally preceded by a doc string). progn is actually a special form, which is a primitive function (i.e. implemented in C) whose arguments are not evaluated before being passed to the function: instead, the special form is responsible for evaluating them as desired. See the "Function Type", "Primitive Function Type", "Special Forms", and "Defining Commands" nodes of the Emacs Lisp manual. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA