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From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [babel] features request for Emacs Initialization
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skblamzw.fsf@mundaneum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C74275FB.1F58%jonathana@criticalmass.com

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Arkell wrote:
> On 2009/12/7 12:31 AM, "bluedian" <blue.dian-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> For now, I use this basic snippet when defining emacs code block in my
>> configuration files, JDL-Debug is a flag I put to true when I want to debug
>> my Emacs configuration.
>>
>> # -*- mode: snippet -*-
>> # name: code org for emacs configuration blocks
>> # key: cemacs
>> # --
>> #+srcname: $1
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (if JDL-Debug
>>  (message "start $1"))
>> $2
>> (if JDL-Debug
>>  (message "End $1"))
>> #+end_src
>
> Why not use a macro?  That is one of the great things about lisp:
>
> (defmacro JDL-Debug (section &rest code)
>   `(if JDL-Ddebuging
>      (progn
>        (message (concat "start " ,section))
>        ,code
>        (message (concat "end " ,section)))))
>
> (I haven't tested it, but that should work.)

Not the same semantics, here: you don't execute the code unless the debug flag
is set to `t'. In his case, the debug flag just adds (or not) messages in the
echo area.

Apart from that little difference, yes, I guess using macros is an excellent
idea.

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban



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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-08  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01  8:19 [babel] features request for Emacs Initialization bluedian
2009-12-05  5:33 ` Eric Schulte
2009-12-07  7:31   ` bluedian
2009-12-07 16:06     ` Jonathan Arkell
2009-12-08  8:28       ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2009-12-08 17:18         ` Jonathan Arkell

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