Eric Schulte wrote: >[1 <text/plain (7bit)>] >So, >The way that I learned how to program in emacs lisp was mainly using two >commands `elisp-index-search' bound to `C-h e' on my system, and most >importantly `describe-function' bound to `C-h f'. With >`describe-function' you can look at the source code of functions whose >behavior you are familiar with, you can then copy portions of the code >to your *scratch* buffer where they can be edited and evaluated with >`eval-defun' bound to `C-M-x'. Now with Babel, instead of doing this in >the scratch buffer you could do this in emacs-lisp code blocks in an org >file, enabling notes and hierarchical organization -- it can be nice to >have your noodling all collected in one file for later reference.
>If you are going to do any serious work with lisp, I would emphatically >recommend using paredit-mode, and becoming friends with the Sexp >movement functions +1 and not to forget eldoc (M-x eldoc-mode)[1] that displays the description of a variable or the arguments of a function in minibuffer. For hacking Org mode in particular there is a "Hacking" section in the manual that explains the mapping and the property API. For getting in touch with Emacs Lisp there's Xah Lee's Emacs Lisp Tutorial, too[3]. HTH & happy hacking, -- David [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?ElDoc [2] http://orgmode.org/manual/Hacking.html [3] http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp.html -- OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6 Jabber.... dmj...@jabber.org Email..... dm...@ictsoc.de
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