Re: first emacs lisp script: hello world

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stewart Haddock wrote:
> All right.. Here comes the new guy.
>
>  
>
> I downloaded emacs, but I can not figure out how to create a hello world 
> script and run it.   I know this is incredibly basic, but when you are 
> doing this stuff by yourself it is not always obvious.   Can someone 
> point the way?


Maybe

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryCode

or a simple hello-world:

  (defun hello-world()
    (interactive)
    (message "Hello!"))

put that in your *Scratch* buffer, do

  M-x eval-buffer

and then

  M-x hello-world