Re: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-05-30 22:24]:
> Eduardo Ochs wrote:
> 
> > Hi, just a curiosity...
> >
> > why do you prefer to use scratch buffers for elisp code instead of
> > using (semi-scratch?) files in which we record all our experiments?
> >
> > In the tutorials of eev I try to convince the new users to treat their
> > notes and scratch code as "field notes", and save everything they
> > can... one of my arguments is this:
> 
> Okay?
> 
> Sounds interesting but what is it and what does it do?

It is hyperdocument system for Emacs. You can create hyperlinks in
form of Emacs Lisp and jump somewhere and come back, use it for
workflows of life and business, for education and similar.

WWW Hyperlinks for example, one cannot use to read any kind of
documents or jump just anywhere but Emacs Lisp may be used to create
such hyperlinks. 


Here is one hyperlink:

Press M-e within M-x evv on this line opens manual:  (find-man "date") 

Going back from manual page works with M-k



-- 
Jean

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