From: Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:13:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eebdccky.fsf@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y29lm9sq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:03:49 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:54:09 +0200
>> From: Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> In this case, I would recommend you to take a look at the Elisp manual.
>> See [[info:elisp#Output Functions]].
>>
>> It may sound silly but how can the beginner know everything? By
>> guessing, of course: good luck!
>
> The ELisp manual is not for the beginners; we have the Introduction to
> Programming in Emacs Lisp for that. The ELisp manual is the reference
> manual for the Emacs Lisp language and its use for extending Emacs.
>
>
It's a matter of perspective. Personally, I couldn't continue reading
the Emacs manual because I couldn't understand the numerous references
to Elisp. And the tutorial I did not adhere to, and believe it or not,
the Emacs Lisp reference manual finally did the trick.
--
Best regards,
Kevin Vigouroux
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-01 9:20 [DOC] About Lisp Data Types Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 12:37 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:12 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 14:10 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:49 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 15:54 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 17:13 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-08-01 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 6:31 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 17:06 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 11:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 11:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:00 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:22 ` tomas
2021-08-01 14:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 15:02 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 15:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:57 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 13:31 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-08-01 14:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 17:31 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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