* Joel Reicher <[email protected]> [2025-01-03 03:25]: > Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes: > > > * Joel Reicher <[email protected]> [2025-01-02 03:33]: > > > Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > > <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > How can one get the result of the throw? With a let? > > > > > > Why are you asking on this list when it should be possible to get > > > this information from (info "(elisp) Catch and Throw")? > > > > Sometimes it is helpful to provide info, and too often people have > > misunderstanding and need explanation. Emacs is full of terms, concepts, > > definitions which cause misunderstandings. If that would not be so, I > > would be very happy, though it is. > > > > You must know that there are different types of readers, different > > audience. Emacs Lisp manual is written in technical manner, it wasn't > > written in manner of a tutorial. > > If the problem is in understanding the manual, then my very strong opinion > is that the question should be asked in terms of the manual. > > This does three things: > > 1) Demonstrates good faith on the part of the enquirer that they have > attempted to read the manual > 2) Helps phrase the question in common terms with a minimum of unstated > assumptions > 3) Potentially leads to improvements in the manual
It is very good opinion, but people are not programmed robots. -- Jean Louis --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
