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Re: emacs configuration


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: emacs configuration
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:11:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Jean Louis wrote:

> Not related to discussion, rather to "preprocessor", on my
> side I am working with the database. And the database could
> practically include certain Emacs Lisp expressions.
> Those could evolve from multiple users. That is where
> preprocessor could be useful on my side as to include such
> customized snippets or modified functions for each user
> being different. That is currently handled on my side by
> using `eval'. Other possible use for preprocessor is to
> dynamically include some date, signature, link snippets in
> the script.

But can't you do that with different functions and/or
different arguments to the functions?

What's the one thing that makes the
preprocessor indispensible?

I.e. why isn't the "processor" enough?

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