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Re: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...


From: Eduardo Ochs
Subject: Re: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 01:32:33 -0300

On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 23:12, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 10:37 AM
> > From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > *scratch* buffer is famous for it.
> >
> > I just need more of them but *scratch*, so I do it this way:


Hi, just a curiosity...

why do you prefer to use scratch buffers for elisp code instead of
using (semi-scratch?) files in which we record all our experiments?

In the tutorials of eev I try to convince the new users to treat their
notes and scratch code as "field notes", and save everything they
can... one of my arguments is this:

  Learning eev is also like learning to use paper notebooks. It is
  much easier to understand the notes and ideas what we wrote
  ourselves in our notebooks than to understand what other people
  wrote in their notebooks... when we go back to what _we_ wrote we
  are able to reconnect with what we were thinking, even when our
  notes are quite terse because we did not write down all details -
  and we can't do that with other people's notes.

  (From:)
  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-here-links-intro.html
  (find-here-links-intro)

Grepping and `C-s'-ing our own notes is easy, and most of the time we
can read - and reuse - what we wrote.

By the way (for Christopher): eev has a hands-on elisp tutorial. It's
here:

  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-elisp-intro.html
  (find-elisp-intro)



Cheers,
  Eduardo Ochs
  http://angg.twu.net/#eev



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