From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: exits funnel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: A couple rudimentary elisp questions Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040229235540.88637.qmail@web40503.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078099263 29707 80.91.224.253 (1 Mar 2004 00:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 01:00:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Axarc-0006ek-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:00:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AxanS-0005Cw-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AxanC-0005Cd-17 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Axamf-00058F-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.218.78.120] (helo=web40503.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Axame-00057s-OA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [67.86.87.9] by web40503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:55:40 PST Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17334 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17334 Hello, I'm pretty new to emacs and I've decided it's time to take a crack at some simple lisp. I have a couple silly questions: 1) Is there no way to specify multi-line comments? I read the 'comments' section in the 'Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' and it seems to indicate not, but it seems kind of hard to believe. I'm trying to write a custom c-style and it would be helpful if I could comment/uncomment large chunks of my .emacs file and reload it so I could try to figure out what's going on. If there really are no multi line comments is there any tricks for kludging it? 2) I see alot of lists of the form (foo . bar). What does the dot specify? Thanks in advance for answering what must seem like foolish questions. -exits __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools