From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Executing part of the code instead of another Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:38:03 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87imbm3llg.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <87blhe3kxg.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4620"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: moasenwood@zoho.eu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 11:38:52 2020 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 1kQ5uO-00018T-BB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:38:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46808 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQ5uN-00036N-Dm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2020 05:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQ5ts-00035x-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2020 05:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:64411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQ5tq-0000fd-3V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2020 05:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@otaku.sdf.org [205.166.94.8]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0979c6f9000778 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:38:06 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0979cRnm014877; Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:38:27 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/07 04:58:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:124348 Archived-At: > > What can one use if there is an else branch with multiple commands, as I > would like to use it. > In general you can do: (if [condition] (progn [multiple statements of the "then" part]) [multiple statements of the "else" part"])