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Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types


From: Kevin Vigouroux
Subject: Re: [DOC] About Lisp Data Types
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:13:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:54:09 +0200
>> From:  Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> In this case, I would recommend you to take a look at the Elisp manual.
>> See [[info:elisp#Output Functions]].
>> 
>> It may sound silly but how can the beginner know everything? By
>> guessing, of course: good luck!
>
> The ELisp manual is not for the beginners; we have the Introduction to
> Programming in Emacs Lisp for that.  The ELisp manual is the reference
> manual for the Emacs Lisp language and its use for extending Emacs.
>
>

It's a matter of perspective. Personally, I couldn't continue reading
the Emacs manual because I couldn't understand the numerous references
to Elisp. And the tutorial I did not adhere to, and believe it or not,
the Emacs Lisp reference manual finally did the trick.
-- 
Best regards,
Kevin Vigouroux



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