From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:10 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87iqe1og0i.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256603188 18858 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2009 00:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:26:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 01:26:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N2ZtD-0000JP-NO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:26:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ZtD-0008HS-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2Zsc-00083V-7g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ZsX-0007yo-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60920 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ZsX-0007yW-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52856) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2ZsW-0002T6-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N2ZsV-0008Sv-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:35 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:35 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69260 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > I'm hoping someone will be kind enough to demonstrate a couple of > brief conditionals in elisp... if and if else. > > This may be a chintzy way to do it but I really do not want to pound > away at elisp intro and the elisp manual for hours. I usually > start seeing red at the 4-5 paragraph and usually have been able to > learn what I needed to know in things like perl and shell scripting > from just a few real live examples that do something at least close > to what I am trying then I can edit and tinker until I start to sort > of `get it'. I recommend Xah Lee's elisp tutorial if you are already a programmer and just want to dive in.