From: "Kevin Montuori" <montuori@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:19:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k3ke3bvw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bo5qolzi.fsf@bzg.ath.cx
>>>>> "B" == Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
B> Comments and feedback welcome, enjoy,
Nicely done, I'm sure more than a few people will find it helpful.
A few comments:
- A link to "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" might prove
handy for continuing on: http://tinyurl.com/lanbfyv
- The paragraph beginning with "This set of command is loaded on
top..." is confusing. I'd be tempted to make it way simpler:
Emacs has a built-in set of functions (or commands); you use these
built-in functions as building blocks for custom functions.
- I'd point out that every sexp returns a value and some sexps produce
side effects -- and explain the difference between a value and side
effect.
Stupid as it sounds, I'd mention to your friend that you can't break a
computer by mis-programming it (and that most programmers spend their
time fixing code that's broken to some degree, not writing perfect code
out of the gate). This is less obvious to non-programmers than I would
have suspected.
k.
--
Kevin Montuori
montuori@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-25 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-25 12:36 Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes Bastien
2013-07-25 13:53 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-07-25 15:19 ` Kevin Montuori [this message]
2013-07-25 20:25 ` Bastien
[not found] <mailman.1755.1374756308.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-25 13:41 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-25 14:38 ` Bastien
2013-07-25 15:48 ` notbob
2013-07-25 20:23 ` Bastien
2013-07-26 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 17:35 ` Bastien
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