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Re: newbie elisp help ??
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Joel J. Adamson |
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Re: newbie elisp help ?? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:09:08 -0400 |
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William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:
> 4. I wanted to avoid the need for variable arguments, parameters
> and hooks by writing a simple set of functions where I could
> copy and manually substitute ';' and '#' for '/* */' commenting
> out symbols. Hooks, buffer/file names, etc. might come later.
I understand completely all your desires to learn: I'm doing the same
thing myself. To accomplish 4, I suggest checking out ESS, which is a
set of major modes for various statistical applications. It's mostly
aimed at R, however I use it for Stata; it has all the different
comment syntaxes worked out. I've only recently discovered the
sh-mode has the ability to stick in complete templates for whiles,
fors and conditionals --- it's pretty cool.
> 5. I did not ask for advice on the emacs mailing list lightly. I
> did my due diligence with manuals, info, wiki, archives, google
> and trial and error. I thought that after several hours of
> frustration it would be appropriate to ask for guidance.
>
> My understanding was that this emacs mailing list is for beginners and
> experienced people alike.
No problem: your post just reminded me of all the times I've thought
of doing similar things and discovered that (a) Emacs already does
what I want or (b) there's a much simpler way to do it that does not
involve any Lisp. This is somewhat of a shame, since I am always
trying to find a reason to learn more Lisp (right now I'm studying
Scheme more than Emacs Lisp). Unfortunately much of the time Emacs
already does what I want and I have no reason to learn:
DAMN YOU EMACS LISP DEVELOPERS AND YOUR EXCELLENT PRODUCTS AND
EXTENSIONS! YOU'RE RUINING IT FOR THE REST OF US!
Have a nice day,
Joel
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