From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374759918 19122 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2013 13:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:45:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 25 15:45:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Lr6-0005T9-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Lr5-0001Gi-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:45:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.64.202 with SMTP id f10mr39686612qai.2.1374759688812; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:41:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.2.74 with SMTP id 10mr164508igs.15.1374759688598; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!cb17no217553qab.0!news-out.google.com!dk8ni1421qab.0!nntp.google.com!cb17no217552qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.30.186; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.30.186 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:41:28 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200131 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92397 Archived-At: On Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:06:01 PM UTC+5:30, Bastien wrote: > Now here is my attempt at playing the "15 minutes" game: > http://bzg.fr/learn-emacs-lisp-in-15-minutes.html Neat! I learnt something -- C-j (always used M-C-x so far) Now learn elisp in 15 minutes is really too ambitious for me to tackle leave aside improve upon. However Ive one general comment: Elisp is 2 things: 1. A scripting framework for the emacs editor 2. A full-scale (turing complete) programming language Your intro emphasises 1 more than 2. How to balance more and yet stay within the 15 minutes constraint... Well dunno... :-) If I think of something I'll tell