Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep. This originally was for an Elisp novice, to start putting together > components that could be cut+yanked and evaluated in part - in the one > buffer. Eventually "putting it all together" into the final form. > > As a novice - a little trial and error goes in to auditioning the various > functions. And much lookup in the Lisp manual. So, variously-working forms > sit side-by-side with better working ones, as we scratch our head and try > again. > > If anyone has any better suggestions, for a novice tinkering away, they > would be welcome. Gleaning meaningful info from the debugger would seem to > be a candidate for a newbie lesson. > > Others have mentioned the scratch buffer and lisp interaction mode. Another tool which is quite useful for beginners is ielm
,----[ C-h f ielm RET ] | ielm is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `ielm'. | (ielm) | | Interactively evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions. | Switches to the buffer `*ielm*', or creates it if it does not exist. `---- Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out! _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs