Re: [External] : Re: Setting value 1 when matching two strings

[Heime]

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On Monday, October 17th, 2022 at 12:42 AM, Michael Heerdegen 
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:


> Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com writes:
> 
> > Have gone through "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" but cannot
> > assimilate all that.
> 
> 
> That's good. Nobody can assimilate that all at once. You can leave out
> lots of things that are currently not important to you.
> 
> > If there was some condensed article about important tools for the
> > elisp programmer, and a crash course on how to use them, that would be
> > very helpful.
> 
> 
> Dunno if that's possible. Depends too much on the background of the
> reader. And there is a lot of important stuff to know. I doubt it fits
> in a condensed article, and I doubt even more that you would write good
> programs after reading that. It would be a trap. The manual is not
> that long because the authors were bad, it's full of important things.
> If you simplify, no matter where, you'll later regret it. Waste a lot
> of time, and still have to read all of it.
> 
> > What I did was look at the emacs website displaying everything on one
> > web page. The Gnu Emacs Info Viewer, is that when you type "info" at
> > the shell command line?
> 
> 
> The command line program "info" is a reader for the Info documentation
> for the command line. Emacs has its own integrated and very nice Info
> reader: type C-h i.
> 
> Oh, now I see that you only read the introduction, not the Elisp
> reference manual. I suggest to have a look at that one, too.
> 
> Yeah sorry if we sometimes sound rude, but all shortcuts are traps,
> all - sorry. It's hard to defer what one actually wants to do and
> read that boring stuff instead. I guess all of us tried some shortcuts.
> We all wasted lots of time more or less.
> 
> Michael.

I am an impatient person, and in the habit of running doing a job,  
which can blow people's fuses.  Great that things have settled down
now.