From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rpd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: elisp syntax for .emacs code beginners help (inserting "" marks example) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25271571.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251965680 22854 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2009 08:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:14:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 10:14:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mj7Sh-0006gc-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:14:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mj7Sg-0002uQ-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mj7SK-0002uL-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mj7SG-0002tm-7c for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60249 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mj7SF-0002tj-Tp for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:34071) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mj7SF-0004W9-Jm for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mj7SD-0003m6-KI for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:14:01 -0700 X-Nabble-From: richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:67787 Archived-At: 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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/elisp-syntax-for-.emacs-code-beginners-help-%28inserting-%22%22-marks-example%29-tp25271571p25271571.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.