From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs documentation is bad Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 15:34:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20180909133428.GC6746@tuxteam.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536500540 4132 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2018 13:42:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 13:42:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: John Stone To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 15:42:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyzyh-0000yH-Jp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz00n-0004an-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz008-0004WX-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyzrI-00007x-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyzrE-0007dr-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 09:34:34 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:Date; bh=WhhMdTgnd3X+ztpn6T2wUhgsh6k7ZIeDMy5N1b5pGlk=; b=EQM+cRWX2Ozv74/SlIb7zbP1fP7Z6iiSv6vnIBfu7IxgjitQkzy2/QVIyojsLbYNAXcDURJVBB2+n+H9it/m43qyUIN8o23tAWPNZtXMjK95nyhcbFk2tcr4ZM6uXwerkZIc0zBpvb+mrTM771Af3TIUp6voNV8aoVuNqIjsLfZudkgGOT2gcGQZtLFkaUofVS1ThovdxV6mpGmeBnquQxL2naRqq7KeP+qjDzPZz9MctFRKQ05zX2wTgjnJpjRUY/gu+ipQ+RXUt3opRz7N1K3txfb1zoCoKoif5EV6pjrb17h0DleJV7XJ9cy8dUzFE2H1tXb7HizqAyMTYeVjvA==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fyzrA-00043t-Co; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:34:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117846 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:49:54PM -0700, John Stone wrote: > lambda expression is a function which can appear wherever a function name > can appear? bullshit, delete the lies from the manual > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:48 PM John Stone wrote: > > > how fucking hard did you make this > > > > > > ( > > ( > > (lambda (f) > > (lambda (x) > > (list f x))) > > 'g > > ) > > 'y > > ) > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:46 PM John Stone > > wrote: > > > >> ( > >> (lambda (f) > >> (lambda (x) > >> (list f x))) > >> 'g) > >> 'y > >> ) > >> > >> this crashes emacs but try to figure out why from docs and you're shit > >> out of luck and just wasted half a fucking day What is your problem? None of those things "crashes" Emacs. The first one has one parenthesis too much, in the second one you're trying to apply something to 'y which is not a function (the symbol 'g). Look, if you were a tad nicer, I'd try to help you, but the way you are yelling around, I don't really feel like it. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAluVIWQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYtiQCfZMLb/wMUGfg9BYYMvm3GC87e fgUAnjFKehh1ZMFXZezxOPwKcZDrdQWf =jLBn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----