From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Phillip Lord
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help
Subject: Re: beginner el form
Date: 03 May 2005 12:09:15 +0100
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
Message-ID:
References:
<7ebr7weqbn.fsf@ada2.unipv.it>
<7e1x8sedm1.fsf@ada2.unipv.it>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115224751 19348 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2005 16:39:11 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:39:11 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 18:39:10 2005
Return-path:
Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165])
by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
id 1DTMth-0007mZ-5r
for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:38:53 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org)
by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
id 1DTLE3-000133-CK
for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 10:51:47 -0400
Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!transit.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Original-Lines: 20
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk
Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1115118555 16369 130.88.198.228 (3 May 2005
11:09:15 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:09:15 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4
Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130620
Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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:26269
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26269
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam writes:
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