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Re: jump between if-fi
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Re: jump between if-fi |
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Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:39:41 -0600 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
[...]
>> Yes that would be very nice but is also very unlikely. My skill level
>> would have to be improved several hundred percentage points in a pretty
>> short while.
>
> Indeed. Where's the problem with that? The Emacs documentation
> (including that for Emac Lisp) is sensationally good, and there's as much
> help as you need on the net. For functionality this useful, I'd happily
> help you by personal email, even several times a week.
time
And as you noted.. elisp isn't well suited for scripting so I'm
working on perl.
[...]
>> I guess not too many emacs developers really do much shell scripting.
>> Probably using a lot more high level scripting languages (perl, lisp,
>> python and etc). I run into portability problems more with shell
>> scripts since something like perl is the same everywhere.
>
> I would think most Emacsers write shell scripts reasonably fluently.
> Lisp isn't really suited for the job, and p{erl,ython} seem over
> complicated. In my humble opinion, of course. ;-)
I'm sure they are fluent. Way more than I am.
What I said was I doubt they use shell languages as much as someone
who isn't fluent in perl or python. What I was getting at is there
may not be much of a perceived need for things that aid shell
scripting. All the higher level stuff uses parens rather than if-fi.
I do agree though that hacking out something to make emacs able to
recognize shell constructs like it does with parens would be a great
learning tool and of some value to the emacs community. God knows I
owe the community a huge debt for all the help over the years.
I may have to dig into it this new year.
- Re: jump between if-fi, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/01/01
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- Re: jump between if-fi, reader, 2008/01/05
- Re: jump between if-fi, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/09
- Re: jump between if-fi, Arnaldo Mandel, 2008/01/09