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yougene wrote:I still don't know what a lisp form actually is, but I think I get the big picture.

It's any object meant to be evalutated. Lists, symbols, strings, whatever. You can think of it as any object making up valid Lisp code.

Could you expand on this? Why is let stateless and setf isn't? Why have a variable at all if you're not going to modify it? Perhaps you've completed a long computation and need to use the result multiple times. You don't want to recompute each time you need its value. Or perhaps you've called a fun...

1) Macros dont eval their arguments 2) Macros return List-Code which is immeaditly evaluated I dont see any possibilities for the first point to have a effect No, this is great. You can transform your input however you like to automate writing basically any code you can dream up. If the arguments w...

I am trying the file opening in emacs LISP with below mentioned code: (let ((in (open "/home/administrator/test.el"))) (format t "~a~%" (read-line in)) (close in)) This isn't Emacs Lisp, this is Common Lisp. Where did you type this? Have you got SLIME set up properly? If you hav...

Paul, As it suggests in the manual, most local modes have named keymaps: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Local-Keymaps.html Keymap objects are what I said are nameless. A “named keymap” is, as far as I can tell, just a variable storing a keymap object. You might grep th...

@gugamilare. I don't want to set a global key. I only want my functions to be part of the local mode map for mew (my mailing program). As I just shared above I found out how to do it. However, I am still clueless where to find the name of a given mode's keymap :?: Looking at LOCAL-SET-KEY's source,...

Hallo! I am not a programmer but a writer. I am looking for a language with which I can develop some applications to "massage" texts which I write. I will use the applications for marking text with syantax coloring, segmenting sentences into clauses and thence into phrases. Good luck, tha...

Thank you, Ramarren . But to be honest, I didn't understand a word you've said. It seams LISP doesn't offer proper tools to secure a LISP project. Right? Trying to secure your program from user tampering is pretty hopeless. There was a discussion on c.l.l not long ago after someone cracked the tria...

rubing wrote:Yes, those are some needed changes, but the function still does not work. If for example I type:

(buf-exists *scratch*)

and try to evaluate, I get the error (void-variable *scratch*)

That's because *scratch* doesn't exist. Put it in quotes.

It's Emacs Lisp program? Probably you want to start by loading the file then running some command or function in it. SHOUTING IS PROBABLY NOT NECESSARY. Ask your outside source if you have no documentation.