From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: first emacs lisp script: hello world Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:04:59 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <877ijqs7n8.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197053102 27621 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 18:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:45:02 +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 Dec 07 19:45:10 2007 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 1J0iCB-0002ld-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:45:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0iBu-0005ld-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:44:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.purdue.edu!purdue!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1197050699 11190 132.183.29.121 (7 Dec 2007 18:04:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:04:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ddv7hPwm9uw6MQ9iwsosHyDZP0M= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154497 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:49927 Archived-At: "Stewart Haddock" writes: > All right.. Here comes the new guy. > > I downloaded emacs, but I can not figure out how to create a hello > world script and run it. I know this is incredibly basic, but when > you are doing this stuff by yourself it is not always obvious. Can > someone point the way? Have you tried the tutorial? If you're really interested in Emacs Lisp, see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_mono/emacs-lisp-intro.html. It should also be included as an info file in your installation (as long as you installed Emacs 22 or above). [f1] i should get you the info browser. HTH Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109