Re: conditionals in elisp

[Richard Riley]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>>
>>> LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Joe Brenner has a nice elisp <-> perl comparison table, which helped
>>>> me a lot:
>>>>
>>>> http://obsidianrook.com/devnotes/elisp-for-perl-programmers.html
>>>>
>>>> BTW: first hit googling "elisp perl" 8)
>>>
>>> Obviously, google is too hard for the OP, if he cannot be bothered to
>>> read the minimum about emacs...
>>
>> The OP was looking for a quick lookup programmers guide to common elisp
>> constructs. The elisp manual is not really quite so convenient : good
>> though it can be.
>>
>> People frequently want to modify an existing feature without learning
>> the entire emacs infrastructure.
>>
>> Pointing to existing code is one such way to help. Suggesting he parse
>> it all with perl probably not quite so helpful ..
>>
>> Personally whenever I revisit elisp I find Xah Lee's tutorial helpful at
>> times.
>
> Whatever.  Results 1 - 50 of about 151,000 for emacs lisp cheatsheet. (0.58 
> seconds) 
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^

cheatsheet? I would never have thought of using that word. Would many
programmers? Most people look up "reference" or "tutorial". Sometimes
people get flustered and lost and need human interaction. The op was
polite and looking for pointers.

> Notice how google is much faster than typing one's question on the
> newsgroups...

Makes one wonder why the groups are here eh? You know .. to ask people
in the know and maybe pick up a few pointers and friendly suggestions on
how best to proceed. That kind of thing.

You should set up an auto "RTFG" response.

cheers,

r.