From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: learning Emacs Lisp
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:32:11 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6ccc191-5619-4143-9b3f-84c357cec386@c2g2000pra.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: QbudnVQF_ZfJv4fUnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net
Xah Lee wrote:
> > (to me, it is entirely distracting because i do not have working
> > familiarity with Common Lisp or C, nor do i care about them. However,
> > i'm the world's top expert in Mathematica, but vast majority of
> > potential readers of elisp doc are not familiar with Mathematica.)
B. T. Raven wrote:
> I thought that Stephen Wolfram (author of _A New Kind of Science_) was
> the top expert.
Yes, he's one of the top expert in programing Mathematica.
> Is this another exaggeration like the statistics you
> pull out of a hat?: e.g. "99.9999% of all southpaws are touch typists."
did u pull that out of a hat?
> Remember that all majorities are not "vast," in fact the vast majority
> of them are not even majorities but only pluralities.
pluralities? how about multitudality? News: Xah discovered that
multitudality of tech geekers are idiotic when it comes to critical
thinking.
can you try the command-frequency.el and let me know your results?
because recently someone made it into a full featured minor mode and
it's now very easy to use. It also saves between emacs restart.
bottom: http://xahlee.org/emacs/command-frequency.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-10 15:21 Grouping related buffers Corey Foote
2008-11-10 16:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-10 17:24 ` Corey Foote
2008-11-10 18:05 ` learning Emacs Lisp [was: Grouping related buffers] Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1226340315.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 18:27 ` learning Emacs Lisp Richard Riley
2008-11-10 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-10 19:48 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.17.1226345002.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 19:36 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-10 20:59 ` Niels Giesen
2008-11-10 21:24 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 4:07 ` Xah
2008-11-12 0:24 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-12 3:32 ` Xah [this message]
2008-11-11 6:49 ` Wei Weng
2008-11-11 18:58 ` Niels Giesen
2008-11-11 4:56 ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-11 8:48 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 9:57 ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-11 10:14 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.58.1226398497.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-11 10:34 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 10:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-11 11:04 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-11 11:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-10 18:26 ` Grouping related buffers Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1226335408.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-13 13:09 ` Stefan Kamphausen
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