From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: beginner el form Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:00:22 -0400 Organization: Ihug Ltd Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112626896 17092 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2005 15:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 17:01:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIT4Z-0001uF-M0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:01:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DISdG-0001XC-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:32:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!lust.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-173-200-218.nzwide.ihug.co.nz Original-X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1112565598 32215 203.173.200.218 (3 Apr 2005 21:59:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ihug.co.nz Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:59:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129801 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25359 At the top of the "Programming in Emacs Lisp", before and around the section Practicing Evaluation, examples are given for the novice to evaluate by c-x c-e. And this does produce the result in the minibuffer or echo section below. My question is, How should create a buffer in which the results will be echoed in the buffer, like in a lisp-evaluation-mode ? In particular, what extension whould this file/buffer be called. Presumeably name.el where expressions are evaluated by highlighted and evaluated by c-x c-e but then doesn't this required the major-mode to be changed every time the file/buffer is opened ? I am looking for a file in which I can incrementally create an emacs-lisp program, will much trial and error, where screes of text can be printed as a result if necessary, and the minibuffer is just not big enough. Now, if some setup *---interactive-mode---* stuff could be included at the top of that buffer, then that would be ideal. Perhaps it is an "self-evaluating form" that I really need. Any suggestions or comments appreciate.