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Re: beginner el form
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Alan Wehmann |
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Re: beginner el form |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:42:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, usg-unix-v) |
You should have a *scratch* buffer automatically present. That is in
the proper mode.
Adam <nospam@example.com> writes:
> At the top of the "Programming in Emacs Lisp", before and around the section
> Practicing Evaluation, examples are given for the novice to evaluate by c-x
> c-e. And this does produce the result in the minibuffer or echo section
> below.
>
> My question is, How should create a buffer in which the results will be
> echoed in the buffer, like in a lisp-evaluation-mode ?
>
> In particular, what extension whould this file/buffer be called. Presumeably
> name.el where expressions are evaluated by highlighted and evaluated by c-x
> c-e but then doesn't this required the major-mode to be changed every time
> the file/buffer is opened ?
>
> I am looking for a file in which I can incrementally create an emacs-lisp
> program, will much trial and error, where screes of text can be printed as
> a result if necessary, and the minibuffer is just not big enough.
>
> Now, if some setup *---interactive-mode---* stuff could be included at the
> top of that buffer, then that would be ideal. Perhaps it is an
> "self-evaluating form" that I really need.
>
> Any suggestions or comments appreciate.
>
>
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Alan Wehmann
wehmann(nospam)@fnal.gov