From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7833e282-8e0b-4b5a-8aee-d64d88dfe41f@g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> References: <87iqe1og0i.fsf@newsguy.com><14A45A8A6D3A42A7ADA56DE8DB68C74E@us.oracle.com><8763a1o0yx.fsf@newsguy.com> <873a53rij7.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256749799 18552 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2009 17:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:09:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 18:09:51 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 1N3C1u-0003wa-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:09:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3C1t-0004Fr-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:09:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.97.72.226 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256744526 25266 127.0.0.1 (28 Oct 2009 15:42:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=188.97.72.226; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174226 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:69313 Archived-At: > In any case, either *scratch* or an Emacs-Lisp buffer is generally better than > `M-:' for extended experimenting, because, as Thi said, you can see the input I'm wondering why nobody mentions M-x ielm for experimenting? It just needs a setting the arrow movements to history-navigation (i.e. swapping and ) and it gets look and feel of a "normal" REPL-shell. Very beginner friendly! Cheers Rolf