From: reader@newsguy.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: jump between if-fi
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:39:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxxhd076.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080101141827.GA3830@muc.de
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
[...]
>> Yes that would be very nice but is also very unlikely. My skill level
>> would have to be improved several hundred percentage points in a pretty
>> short while.
>
> Indeed. Where's the problem with that? The Emacs documentation
> (including that for Emac Lisp) is sensationally good, and there's as much
> help as you need on the net. For functionality this useful, I'd happily
> help you by personal email, even several times a week.
time
And as you noted.. elisp isn't well suited for scripting so I'm
working on perl.
[...]
>> I guess not too many emacs developers really do much shell scripting.
>> Probably using a lot more high level scripting languages (perl, lisp,
>> python and etc). I run into portability problems more with shell
>> scripts since something like perl is the same everywhere.
>
> I would think most Emacsers write shell scripts reasonably fluently.
> Lisp isn't really suited for the job, and p{erl,ython} seem over
> complicated. In my humble opinion, of course. ;-)
I'm sure they are fluent. Way more than I am.
What I said was I doubt they use shell languages as much as someone
who isn't fluent in perl or python. What I was getting at is there
may not be much of a perceived need for things that aid shell
scripting. All the higher level stuff uses parens rather than if-fi.
I do agree though that hacking out something to make emacs able to
recognize shell constructs like it does with parens would be a great
learning tool and of some value to the emacs community. God knows I
owe the community a huge debt for all the help over the years.
I may have to dig into it this new year.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-01 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 23:02 jump between if-fi reader
2007-12-30 23:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-31 6:29 ` reader
2007-12-31 8:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-12-31 14:41 ` reader
2008-01-01 15:47 ` reader
[not found] ` <mailman.5533.1199082573.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-09 5:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-31 16:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 2:29 ` reader
2008-01-01 14:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 15:39 ` reader [this message]
2008-01-01 15:53 ` Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi] Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-01 15:53 ` reader
2008-01-02 5:00 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-05 18:33 ` jump between if-fi reader
2008-01-09 9:43 ` Arnaldo Mandel
[not found] <mailman.5524.1199055779.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-01 18:12 ` Xah Lee
2008-01-01 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
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