Re: Emacs documentation is bad

[John Stone]

> I'd try to help you, but the way you are yelling around, I don't really
feel like it.

don't fix the broken the docs then, we'll use a different lisp for this
project

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:34 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:49:54PM -0700, John Stone wrote:
> > lambda expression is a function which can appear wherever a function name
> > can appear? bullshit, delete the lies from the manual
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:48 PM John Stone <johnrstone2011@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > how fucking hard did you make this
> > >
> > >
> > > (
> > >  (
> > >   (lambda (f)
> > >     (lambda (x)
> > >       (list f x)))
> > >   'g
> > >   )
> > >  'y
> > >  )
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 6:46 PM John Stone <johnrstone2011@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> (
> > >>  (lambda (f)
> > >>    (lambda (x)
> > >>      (list f x)))
> > >>  'g)
> > >> 'y
> > >> )
> > >>
> > >> this crashes emacs but try to figure out why from docs and you're shit
> > >> out of luck and just wasted half a fucking day
>
> What is your problem? None of those things "crashes" Emacs. The first
> one has one parenthesis too much, in the second one you're trying
> to apply something to 'y which is not a function (the symbol 'g).
>
> Look, if you were a tad nicer, I'd try to help you, but the way you
> are yelling around, I don't really feel like it.
>
> Cheers
> - -- t
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