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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:18:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7dh5av5i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eebdccky.fsf@laposte.net

> It's a matter of perspective. Personally, I couldn't continue reading
> the Emacs manual because I couldn't understand the numerous references
> to Elisp. And the tutorial I did not adhere to, and believe it or not,
> the Emacs Lisp reference manual finally did the trick.

The problem you described seemed to be around understanding one of the
core ideas of Lisp, whereas the ELisp reference manual doesn't really
aim to teach Lisp.  Maybe the elisp-intro manual gives a more
approachable presentation?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-01 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-01  9:20 [DOC] About Lisp Data Types Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01  9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 12:37   ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:12     ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 14:10       ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:49         ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 15:54           ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 17:13               ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 18:18                 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-08-02  6:31                   ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:59             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 17:06               ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 11:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 11:57   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:00     ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 13:22       ` tomas
2021-08-01 14:05         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 15:02           ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 15:46             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 16:57               ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-01 13:31       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-08-01 14:07         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:04       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:09         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 14:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-01 17:31         ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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