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From: "CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie Conditional Problem
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:46:04 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <grWV9.42835$aG4.2479915@twister.austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x54r87zrdo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:x54r87zrdo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz...
> Well, what do you expect? (goto-line line) is no function, and you
> use it in the place of one, namely immediately after an opening

What do I expect ... how thought provoking. The manual shows:

Command: goto-line line
This function ...

C-f h goto-line RET shows:

goto-line is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
(goto-line ARG)

Goto line ARG, counting from line 1 at beginning of buffer.

I am  new to this. Is it technically a command or function? Can it be used
immediatly after an opening parenthesis? It seems to work fine outside of
this conditional. I can put other commands in the conditional and they fail,
also.

> parenthesis of a non-special form.  I recommend that you instead use
> progn after the opening parenthesis.  Look it up with
>
> C-h f progn RET

progn is a special form.
(progn BODY ...)

Eval BODY forms sequentially and return value of last one.

This doesn't tell me a whole lot. I get an invalid function using progn,
also. Is it a function?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17 15:19 Newbie Conditional Problem CarlC
2003-01-17 15:36 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-01-17 16:09   ` CarlC
2003-01-18  6:27     ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-01-18 13:35       ` Johan Bockgård
2003-01-18 16:59         ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-01-18 13:48       ` Christopher J. White
2003-01-18 17:03         ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-01-17 16:19 ` Brendan Halpin
     [not found] ` <x54r87zrdo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2003-01-17 16:46   ` CarlC [this message]
2003-01-17 16:52     ` David Kastrup
2003-01-17 17:24       ` CarlC
2003-01-17 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-18 17:36 ` Kai Großjohann

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