From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:07:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hc9c6h$c3t$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fx943h1k.fsf@gmail.com
Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
>
> Look at me! I can challenge a knowledgeable contributor! (One whose
> depth of knowledge is clearly illustrated in the archives.)
Hold on one second there. I was not challenging Pascal's knowledge of
Emacs or Elisp.
I was merely suggesting that telling someone to write a perl script to
parse elisp to find examples of conditionals was maybe not as helpful as
pointing out a good resource for learning other than the elisp manual.
>
> One day you'll get off the fence and know your limitations as a
> contributor or as a troll and become decidedly one or the other. My
> guess is that you need a role model that is a better fit than Xah.
I have no idea what you're talking about. While I realise Xah rattles
some people his elisp "get going" tutorial is very good IMHO.
Still, horse for courses,
regard,
r.
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2009-10-27 0:19 ` conditionals in elisp Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 2:52 ` LanX
2009-10-27 10:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 12:09 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27 17:03 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-28 12:07 ` Richard Riley [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9555.1256645401.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 12:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 13:02 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.9557.1256648714.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 16:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 17:26 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.9572.1256664440.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 18:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 19:40 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.9577.1256672457.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-27 21:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-28 14:05 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-28 15:55 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 17:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-27 0:08 Harry Putnam
2009-10-27 0:25 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-27 1:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-27 5:33 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-27 7:37 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-28 9:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-10-28 14:03 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9621.1256738653.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-28 15:42 ` LanX
2009-10-28 20:42 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 16:19 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.9630.1256746811.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 19:31 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-10-27 5:50 ` tomas
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