From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:26:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vkooii2.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87skd5t3vp.fsf@galatea.local
pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
[...]
> Whatever. Results 1 - 50 of about 151,000 for emacs lisp
> cheatsheet. (0.58 seconds) ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Aside from being horribly lazy, not to mention stupid... I'm also
apparently blind.... I asked about `if else conditionals'... and using
a string I would never have thought of to search for that topic I
repeated your search..finding in a blazing .58 second... exactly 0
references to that topic (at least in the first two pages).
I'll admit I gave up after the second page... Oh, wait I take it
back, there is mention of your posts on this thread. But then, those
don't mention anything about the topic either.
> Notice how google is much faster than typing one's question on the
> newsgroups...
I think your confusing lookup time with the time it will really take
to find a recognizable `if else' example with that search... or many
others, I'd already tried myself.
That time (for me) would be vastly larger than posting here.
I wasn't thinking, tutorial either, since, again I've tortured myself
with a few in the past. And a tutorial by its nature will take in a
lot more than what I was after. I wanted examples... and that is what I
posted about.
In fact I see now that looking for something similar to `if else' in
perl or shell scripting is really a mistake. It looks quite different
in elisp (at least syntactically). . I'm not sure I ever would have
recognized it ... had I found examples.
What I saw was mostly about emacs commands. Something I actually know
a fair bit about after over a decade using emacs.. Maybe not by
standards of this list, but by a wider standard I do.
Thanks for your input. Pascal, I seem to have reached beyond your
patience level.. this time. But you have provided many helpful posts
to me direct and indirect over the yrs and I thank you for that.
And to the other posters here... also thanks for your patience and
help. Xah Lee's stuff is helpful
Thanks to Xah too.
Richard R seems to be one person who saw what I tried to phrase in the
OP. That is, examples... not getting someone to write the thing for
me. Thanks Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-27 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.9533.1256602126.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 0:19 ` conditionals in elisp Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 2:52 ` LanX
2009-10-27 10:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 12:09 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27 17:03 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-28 12:07 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.9555.1256645401.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 12:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 13:02 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.9557.1256648714.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 16:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 17:26 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9572.1256664440.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 18:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 19:40 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.9577.1256672457.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 21:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-28 14:05 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-28 15:55 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 17:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 0:08 Harry Putnam
2009-10-27 0:25 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27 1:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-27 5:33 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-27 7:37 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-28 9:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-10-28 14:03 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9621.1256738653.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-28 15:42 ` LanX
2009-10-28 20:42 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 16:19 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.9630.1256746811.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 19:31 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-10-27 5:50 ` tomas
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