Re: Making ielm behave like a shell (getting to previous commands using the up-arrow key)

[steve-humphreys]

ielm should be  described in "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp".  
It is very useful
when starting with lisp.

> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 6:02 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Making ielm behave like a shell (getting to previous commands 
> using the up-arrow key)
>
> steve-humphreys@gmx.com writes:
>
> > > FWIW, personally I'm quite happy that I can "walk around" with the arrow
> > > keys in ielm buffers.
> >
> > You walk to do what?
>
> To copy parts of an old input, most of the time.  Also C-x C-e
> sometimes.

Have tried it.  It's good.  Did not know it was possible to use C-x C-e
in ielm anh also on previous commands just by moving the location of the cursor.

> Michael.
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