From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steinab@ifi.uio.no (Steinar =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F8rmer?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beginner el form Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:13:27 +0200 Organization: :noitazinagrO Message-ID: <86hdinkr20.fsf@pallotta.studby.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112627176 18134 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2005 15:06:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 17:06:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIT8m-0002gM-Sp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:05:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIShV-0002bz-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:37:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ti400720a081-12809.bb.online.no Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1112595201 1372 85.164.242.9 (4 Apr 2005 06:13:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:13:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oUoei2XkUHb7+UVqf4aFmjWw6QA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129812 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25370 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25370 Adam wrote: | I am looking for a file in which I can incrementally create an | emacs-lisp program, will much trial and error, where screes of text | can be printed as a result if necessary, and the minibuffer is just | not big enough. | | Now, if some setup *---interactive-mode---* stuff could be included at | the top of that buffer, then that would be ideal. Perhaps it is an | "self-evaluating form" that I really need. The *scratch* buffer is ideal for this. Simply write, and when point is at the end of a sexp, press `C-j' and the whole thing is evaluated in the same buffer. -- SB