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 14:02:19 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87aazdunrb.fsf@galatea.local> <87skd5t3vp.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256648748 4326 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2009 13:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:05:48 +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 14:05:40 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 1N2lk2-0002nS-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2lk1-0008VL-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ljd-0008Uz-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ljX-0008UX-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34864 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2ljX-0008UU-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51494) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2ljW-0002QO-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N2ljT-0002Wo-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:03 +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 14:05:03 +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 14:05:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 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:69274 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: >> >>> LanX writes: >>> >>>> Joe Brenner has a nice elisp <-> perl comparison table, which helped >>>> me a lot: >>>> >>>> http://obsidianrook.com/devnotes/elisp-for-perl-programmers.html >>>> >>>> BTW: first hit googling "elisp perl" 8) >>> >>> Obviously, google is too hard for the OP, if he cannot be bothered to >>> read the minimum about emacs... >> >> The OP was looking for a quick lookup programmers guide to common elisp >> constructs. The elisp manual is not really quite so convenient : good >> though it can be. >> >> People frequently want to modify an existing feature without learning >> the entire emacs infrastructure. >> >> Pointing to existing code is one such way to help. Suggesting he parse >> it all with perl probably not quite so helpful .. >> >> Personally whenever I revisit elisp I find Xah Lee's tutorial helpful at >> times. > > Whatever. Results 1 - 50 of about 151,000 for emacs lisp cheatsheet. (0.58 seconds) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ cheatsheet? I would never have thought of using that word. Would many programmers? Most people look up "reference" or "tutorial". Sometimes people get flustered and lost and need human interaction. The op was polite and looking for pointers. > Notice how google is much faster than typing one's question on the > newsgroups... Makes one wonder why the groups are here eh? You know .. to ask people in the know and maybe pick up a few pointers and friendly suggestions on how best to proceed. That kind of thing. You should set up an auto "RTFG" response. cheers, r.