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Re: conditionals in elisp


From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: conditionals in elisp
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:07:44 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

>     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.
>
> Look at me!  I can challenge a knowledgeable contributor!  (One whose
> depth of knowledge is clearly illustrated in the archives.)

Hold on one second there. I was not challenging Pascal's knowledge of
Emacs or Elisp.

I was merely suggesting that telling someone to write a perl script to
parse elisp to find examples of conditionals was maybe not as helpful as
pointing out a good resource for learning other than the elisp manual.

>
> One day you'll get off the fence and know your limitations as a
> contributor or as a troll and become decidedly one or the other.  My
> guess is that you need a role model that is a better fit than Xah.

I have no idea what you're talking about. While I realise Xah rattles
some people his elisp "get going" tutorial is very good IMHO.

Still, horse for courses,

regard,

r.





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