Re: difficulty entering balance mode

[Emanuel Berg]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> I'm ignorant about lisp evaluation. I put emacs into
> lisp mode with M-x emacs-lisp-mode. I then did M-:,
> which brings up Eval: prompt. At it I pasted in all
> the above lines together and did RET. Error: .
> in wrong context.

While it is a good thing to know about M-:, I find it
easier to do C-x C-e which runs the command
`eval-last-sexp'.

Just put point just after the parenthesis, and hit the
keystroke. Here, try:

    (message "Mad skills")
                          ^ cursor here

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