From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:26:45 -0500 Organization: Still searching... 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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