From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rpd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp syntax for .emacs code beginners help (inserting "" marks example) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25288843.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <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 1252048986 32300 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2009 07:23:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:23:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 09:22:59 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 1MjT8M-0007nK-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:22:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjT8L-0002fJ-NU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjT80-0002f0-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjT7v-0002cC-4s for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51565 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjT7v-0002c7-0w for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:23199) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjT7u-00085F-MY for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjT7t-0008Ey-Py for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MjT7m-0001lq-4I for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:22:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Nabble-From: richard@dickinson350.freeserve.co.uk X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67848 Archived-At: Hi Anders Thanks for your helpful reply. Your suggestion works... This code: (insert "[Event \"\"]\n") does show the quotation marks & outputs: [Event ""] << > rpd writes: > >> 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 > > try > (insert "[Event \" \"]\n") > > -- > Anders > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/elisp-syntax-for-.emacs-code-beginners-help-%28inserting-%22%22-marks-example%29-tp25271571p25288843.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.