Re: conditionals in elisp

[Richard Riley]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I'm hoping someone will be kind enough to demonstrate a couple of
> brief conditionals in elisp... if and if else.
>
> This may be a chintzy way to do it but I really do not want to pound
> away at elisp intro and the elisp manual for hours.  I usually
> start seeing red at the 4-5 paragraph and usually have been able to
> learn what I needed to know in things like perl and shell scripting
> from  just a few real live examples that do something at least close
> to what I am trying then I can edit and tinker until I start to sort
> of `get it'.

I recommend Xah Lee's elisp tutorial if you are already a programmer and
just want to dive in.