Re: Splitting a list with spaces and comments

[Heime]

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On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 9:20 AM, Pierre Rouleau 
<prouleau001@gmail.com> wrote:


> Heime,
> 
> Why not just try what you want to learn directly inside Emacs?
> You can use the Emacs Lisp REPLl (read-eval-print-loop) for that and there's 
> one built-in Emacs: ielm.
> Type 'M-x ielm' and you will get a buffer with a Emacs Lisp interpreter 
> running.
> Then inside that you can try to set variables with the values you want.
> At the ELISP> prompt type any valid Emacs Lisp expression. If there is an 
> error it will tell you.
> 
> Here's a session creating the csel and cset variables:
> 
> 
> *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (setq csel '("Symbol" "Command"))
> ("Symbol" "Command")
> 
> ELISP> csel
> ("Symbol" "Command")
> 
> ELISP> (setq cseq '("alpha α" "Beta B" "beta β"
> "Gamma Γ" "gamma γ"
> ;; some comments
> "Delta Δ" "delta δ"
> "Epsilon E" "epsilon ε" "varepsilon ε"
> "Zeta Z" "zeta ζ"))
> ("alpha α" "Beta B" "beta β" "Gamma Γ" "gamma γ" "Delta Δ" "delta δ" "Epsilon 
> E" "epsilon ε" "varepsilon ε" "Zeta Z" "zeta ζ")
> 
> ELISP> cseq
> ("alpha α" "Beta B" "beta β" "Gamma Γ" "gamma γ" "Delta Δ" "delta δ" "Epsilon 
> E" "epsilon ε" "varepsilon ε" "Zeta Z" "zeta ζ")
> 
> ELISP>

Much appreciate showing me how to use ielm for this.
 
 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 8:19 AM Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can one split a list with spaces and comments, like so
> > 
> > (let ( (csel '("Symbol" "Command"))
> > (cseq '("alpha α" "Beta B" "beta β"
> > "Gamma Γ" "gamma γ"
> > 
> > ;; Additional Graphemes
> > "Delta Δ" "delta δ"
> > "Epsilon E" "epsilon ε" "varepsilon ε"
> > "Zeta Z" "zeta ζ")) ))
> 
> 
> 
> --
> /Pierre