From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing as documentation Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:19:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87h7htjbw0.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3616"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iOzyBXRQSuVjui74lxQgvZL4RTA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 20 08:20:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luqpB-0000o5-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:20:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36800 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luqpA-0000cV-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:20:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luqoW-0000cE-3r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luqoU-0002H0-Dm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luqoS-000AKe-09 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:20:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131071 Archived-At: philip-agee wrote: > Have tried the following code [...] > > (defun myfunc () > "todo docstring" > (interactive) > (setq bufr (help-buffer)) > (print "test" bufr) ) What, that didn't work? :) Programming isn't like talking to a person only instead of a person you talk to a machine! That approach will never work. It is more like building LEGO. The functions are building blocks. Check them out what they do one by one and test them one by one. When you understand enough of them, use some of themm (them and only them) in combinations... then in time these combinations become more complex, sometimes. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal