From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russell L. Carter" Subject: Re: Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics... Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:31:03 -0700 Message-ID: <4BC5EDC7.30208@pinyon.org> References: <4BC50A22.608@pinyon.org> <87k4saz786.fsf@schnouki.net> <87tyre5b2c.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O25WA-00012K-7Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:32:46 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40116 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O25Vz-0007q0-Lt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:32:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O25Ua-0003aP-Ju for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:31:13 -0400 Received: from quine.pinyon.org ([65.101.5.249]:57021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O25Ua-0003aB-BQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:31:08 -0400 Received: from [10.0.10.6] (feyerabend.gb.Pinyon.ORG [10.0.10.6]) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77613214C6ED for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:36:08 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <87tyre5b2c.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dan Davison wrote: > Thomas Jost writes: > >> I had the same question a few months ago. I googled something like "lisp >> backquote comma" and found these links: >> - http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter20.html >> - http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/macros.html > > And for a scarily in-depth tutorial on lisp evaluation and macros (most > of which afaIaw translates fairly directly to elisp) > > http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html Thanks all. Scanning through these they look most excellent. I have been putting off this day for 20 years, but because of org-mode I'm now learning elisp. Best, Russell > > (I have a long way to go with that one...) > > Dan > >> Hope this helps :) >> >> Regards, > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode