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From: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation about elisp code
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 12:55:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-1ce8a42b-74e9-4928-a18f-57727c955aac-1619952913923@3c-app-mailcom-bs08> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210502104057.GB16372@tuxteam.de>



> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2021 at 10:40 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> Cc: "Tassilo Horn" <tsdh@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Documentation about elisp code
>
> On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:25:14PM +0200, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> > Have made a defvar and want to output the string in message.
> > Getting into difficulties doing that.
> >
> > (defvar guidance-message
> >   "* guidance
> >
> > C-h f flight"
>
> There is a closing parenthesis missing here.
>
> > (defun guidance ()
> >    "todo"
> >
> >    (message guidance-message) )
> >
> > (guidance)
>
> Besides... you could help us help you better by actually
> describing your difficulties. Just "Getting into difficulties
> doing that" is... difficult :)

You are right.  I found a missing closing parenthesis.  Have written
a rudimentary message about some help resources about some code I have
written.  Currently I am using the *Messages* buffer.  I would like to
use a special buffer for my tools, but do not have experience doing that.


> Cheers
>  - t
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-02  4:34 Documentation about elisp code steve-humphreys
2021-05-02  5:24 ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02  6:58   ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-02  7:48     ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02  8:21       ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-02  9:07         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02 10:25         ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02 10:40           ` tomas
2021-05-02 10:55             ` steve-humphreys [this message]
2021-05-02 17:00               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02 23:10   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-02  5:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-02  6:11   ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02  9:08     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-05-02 10:21       ` steve-humphreys
2021-05-02 17:03     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02  7:22   ` Eli Zaretskii

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