Re: Documentation for car and cdr

[Jason Rumney]

Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> If that person did `C-h f car' because he did not know what a car was,
> that is, because he does not know the very basics of Lisp, the clue
> that will help him is that he should learn Lisp by studying a manual,
> not by reading docstrings.
>   
Many Emacs users have no interest in learning Lisp properly. They just 
want to know enough to be able to configure Emacs, and are bound to come 
across car and cdr sooner or later.