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Re: Documentation for car and cdr
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for car and cdr |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:42:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> Luc Teirlinck wrote:
>> If that person did `C-h f car' because he did not know what a car
>> was, that is, because he does not know the very basics of Lisp, the
>> clue that will help him is that he should learn Lisp by studying a
>> manual, not by reading docstrings.
>>
> Many Emacs users have no interest in learning Lisp properly. They
> just want to know enough to be able to configure Emacs, and are
> bound to come across car and cdr sooner or later.
I can't imagine any application of car and cdr when configuring Emacs
that could be applied without a basic understanding of the cons and
list data structures.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- RE: Documentation for car and cdr, (continued)
- RE: Documentation for car and cdr, Drew Adams, 2006/01/30
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/01/26
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Tomas Zerolo, 2006/01/26
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/29
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/29
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/01/29
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Ken Manheimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alex Schroeder, 2006/01/31
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/01/31
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Jason Rumney, 2006/01/30
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/01/30
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/26