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: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:42:12 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zl7bi72z.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87iqe1og0i.fsf@newsguy.com> <14A45A8A6D3A42A7ADA56DE8DB68C74E@us.oracle.com> <8763a1o0yx.fsf@newsguy.com> <873a53rij7.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <7833e282-8e0b-4b5a-8aee-d64d88dfe41f@g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256762744 31530 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2009 20:45:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:45:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 21:45:38 2009 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 1N3FOh-0003y9-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:45:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3FOg-0005Hb-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3FOJ-0005H8-NS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3FOF-0005Ey-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49099 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3FOF-0005Es-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42437) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3FOF-0002XC-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3FOB-0003jc-Iz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:45:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XQE7fkaV3JZa5UH/qPKjoXm8dzY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69320 Archived-At: LanX writes: >> In any case, either *scratch* or an Emacs-Lisp buffer is generally better than >> `M-:' for extended experimenting, because, as Thi said, you can see the input > > I'm wondering why nobody mentions M-x ielm for experimenting? > > It just needs a setting the arrow movements to history-navigation > (i.e. swapping and ) and it gets look and feel of a > "normal" REPL-shell. > > Very beginner friendly! Well, there's something I didn't even know existed... thanks.