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Re: Emacs internals + lisp guru question
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: Emacs internals + lisp guru question |
Date: |
29 Sep 2002 07:48:55 +0000 |
gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006) writes:
> There are some functions that take a list as argument.
> Text can be read from the buffer as a string.
> There are some functions that take a "symbol" as an argument.
> A string can be converted to a symbol.
this is like poetry!
> However, when symbol is provided to the function by converting a string
> it is not working.
move point after the close-paren for each of these forms and do C-x C-e:
(describe-function 'make-symbol)
(describe-function 'intern)
(describe-function (intern "describe-function"))
> What is the meaning of the gibberish from
> (insert (format "%s" (symbol-function 'describe-function) ))
the only gibberish i see is the white space here...........^
(which might be significant according to some demented read-table
mungers). which gibberish are you referring to, specifically?
> What is out there to learn more about emacs/emacs_lisp and become more
> sophisticated?
grep the net for "elisp manual". if that's too heavy, try ttn's elisp
tutorial (still incomplete but maybe you can help):
http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/elisp-tutorial/
but be careful of trying to be too sophisticated:
http://www.glug.org/people/random/flame.txt
[newsgroups trimmed.]
thi