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Re: Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer


From: Matthew Flaschen
Subject: Re: Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:29:42 -0500
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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>>>     (progn
>>>       (goto-char (point-max))
>>>       (beginning-of-line))
>>
>> Thanks, that's a bit simpler.  I'd seen that command before, but forgot
>> it (and probably never really understood what it did).
> 
> <pedantic>
> progn is technically not a command, which is a function with an
> interactive form at the beginning of its body (optionally preceded by a
> doc string).  progn is actually a special form, which is a primitive
> function (i.e. implemented in C) whose arguments are not evaluated
> before being passed to the function: instead, the special form is
> responsible for evaluating them as desired.
> 
> See the "Function Type", "Primitive Function Type", "Special Forms", and
> "Defining Commands" nodes of the Emacs Lisp manual.
> </pedantic>

Thanks for clarifying.  I'm still trying to get the feel of emacs lisp
(off and on).

Matthew Flaschen

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