From: rpd <richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: elisp syntax for .emacs code beginners help (inserting "" marks example)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:14:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25271571.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
Hi
Anyone know of a good elisp primer/tutorial to learn the syntax?
As an example I have this code (in a defun command):
(insert "[Event ""]\n")
which when I call this, it outputs [Event ]
BUT what I want is [Event " "]
So somehow I need the quote marks to show!
I have googled to find out about writing elisp code but haven't got to a
simple tutorial yet (I have a copy of elisp manual but it is quite big!-take
a long time to go through!).
I will fiddle around with the " " code above (maybe try escaping with \"\
\"\).
However if anyone can tell me how to do this & point me to a good simple
tutorial as I try to start to write some elisp code for my .emacs file I
would be very grateful.
I look forward to any helpful reply, thanks
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2009-09-03 8:19 ` elisp syntax for .emacs code beginners help (inserting "" marks example) Anders Wirzenius
2009-09-04 7:22 ` rpd
2009-09-04 10:26 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-04 20:43 ` rpd
2009-09-05 16:37 ` Tyler Smith
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