Re: multi-line conditionals in elisp

[Michael Powe <michael+gnus@trollope.org>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:

    Peter> Michael Powe <michael+gnus@trollope.org> wrote:
    >> this is trivial in other languages, but not, it seems, in
    >> elisp.  (i think it's just a case of, i don't really understand
    >> the language.)

    Peter> The latter.

    >> (if (locate-library "python-mode") (cond((autoload 'python-mode
    >> "python-mode" "Python editing mode" t) (setq auto-mode-alist
    >> (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)))) (message
    >> "python library not found"))

    Peter> (if (locate-library "python-mode") (progn (autoload
    Peter> 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode" t) (setq
    Peter> auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode)
    Peter> auto-mode-alist))) (message "python library not found"))

thanks, i will look into that more closely.

mp

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