From: saneman
Subject: Good online resource for Lisp?
Date: 
Message-ID: <fpp261$5dr$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>
I am looking for a good online resource to get started with Lisp from 
scratch.

I use emacs where the .emacs file is written in Lisp. For example I have 
declared a variable:

(setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")

which is the path to some .el files.

Now I would like to use the variable mylisp in:

;; Line numbers
(load-file (cons mylisp "setnu.el" ))
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'setnu-mode)

where setnu.el is in the ~/work/mylisp/ dir. But it gives an error.
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Subject: Re: Good online resource for Lisp?
Date: 
Message-ID: <PaqdnXVaZMFvt13anZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@giganews.com>
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:05:24 +0100, saneman wrote:

> I am looking for a good online resource to get started with Lisp from
> scratch.
> 
> I use emacs where the .emacs file is written in Lisp. For example I have
> declared a variable:
> 
> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
> 
> which is the path to some .el files.
> 
> Now I would like to use the variable mylisp in:
> 
> ;; Line numbers
> (load-file (cons mylisp "setnu.el" )) (global-set-key "\C-cl"
> 'setnu-mode)
> 
> where setnu.el is in the ~/work/mylisp/ dir. But it gives an error.

Just to let you know (this might be obvious already), you are writing in 
elisp. This is a dialect of lisp, which is different from Common Lisp, 
the main focus of this channel.

Things you'll notice immediately are that it has a slightly different set 
of standard functions and (relevantly here) has a different way of 
handling pathnames --- in CL, "~" won't do what you want.

If you're looking for more specific help with elisp, you'll probably get 
more joy in gnu.emacs.help (which also has lots of posters) than here.

Rupert
From: Johannes Weiner
Subject: Re: Good online resource for Lisp?
Date: 
Message-ID: <87prunst4w.fsf@saeurebad.de>
Hi,

saneman <·······@asd.com> writes:

> I am looking for a good online resource to get started with Lisp from
> scratch.
>
> I use emacs where the .emacs file is written in Lisp. For example I
> have declared a variable:
>
> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
>
> which is the path to some .el files.
>
> Now I would like to use the variable mylisp in:
>
> ;; Line numbers
> (load-file (cons mylisp "setnu.el" ))
> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'setnu-mode)
>
> where setnu.el is in the ~/work/mylisp/ dir. But it gives an error.

Press C-x C-e behind the (cons mylisp "setnu.el") form and see that it
does not what you want.  After that, have a look at CONCAT (C-h f concat
RET).

But for loading, better use

	(add-to-list 'load-path "~/work/mylisp")
	(require 'setnu) ; or (load "setnu")
	...

HTH,
	Hannes
From: Google
Subject: Re: Good online resource for Lisp?
Date: 
Message-ID: <87ir0fdc8k.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
saneman <·······@asd.com> writes:

> I am looking for a good online resource to get started with Lisp from
> scratch.
>
> I use emacs where the .emacs file is written in Lisp. For example I
> have declared a variable:
>
> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
>
> which is the path to some .el files.
>
> Now I would like to use the variable mylisp in:
>
> ;; Line numbers
> (load-file (cons mylisp "setnu.el" ))
> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'setnu-mode)
>
> where setnu.el is in the ~/work/mylisp/ dir. But it gives an error.

irc://irc.freenode.org/#emacs
news:gnu.emacs.help 
http://www.emacswiki.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_mono/emacs-lisp-intro.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html

-- 
__Google__
http://www.google.com/
From: Leandro Rios
Subject: Re: Good online resource for Lisp?
Date: 
Message-ID: <47c0331a$0$1347$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com>
Google escribi�:
> saneman <·······@asd.com> writes:
> 
>> I am looking for a good online resource to get started with Lisp from
>> scratch.
>>
>> I use emacs where the .emacs file is written in Lisp. For example I
>> have declared a variable:
>>
>> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
>>
>> which is the path to some .el files.
>>
>> Now I would like to use the variable mylisp in:
>>
>> ;; Line numbers
>> (load-file (cons mylisp "setnu.el" ))
>> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'setnu-mode)
>>
>> where setnu.el is in the ~/work/mylisp/ dir. But it gives an error.
> 
> irc://irc.freenode.org/#emacs
> news:gnu.emacs.help 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_mono/emacs-lisp-intro.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html
> 

For a brief moment I believed Google finally gained conciousness. Then I 
looked at the header.

Nice one. :)

Leandro
comp.lang.lisp / 2008 / feb