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Re: [Orgmode] programming for org-mode
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David Maus |
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Re: [Orgmode] programming for org-mode |
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Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:15:26 +0200 |
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Eric Schulte wrote:
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>So,
>The way that I learned how to program in emacs lisp was mainly using two
>commands `elisp-index-search' bound to `C-h e' on my system, and most
>importantly `describe-function' bound to `C-h f'. With
>`describe-function' you can look at the source code of functions whose
>behavior you are familiar with, you can then copy portions of the code
>to your *scratch* buffer where they can be edited and evaluated with
>`eval-defun' bound to `C-M-x'. Now with Babel, instead of doing this in
>the scratch buffer you could do this in emacs-lisp code blocks in an org
>file, enabling notes and hierarchical organization -- it can be nice to
>have your noodling all collected in one file for later reference.
>If you are going to do any serious work with lisp, I would emphatically
>recommend using paredit-mode, and becoming friends with the Sexp
>movement functions
+1 and not to forget eldoc (M-x eldoc-mode)[1] that displays the
description of a variable or the arguments of a function in
minibuffer.
For hacking Org mode in particular there is a "Hacking" section in the
manual that explains the mapping and the property API.
For getting in touch with Emacs Lisp there's Xah Lee's Emacs Lisp
Tutorial, too[3].
HTH & happy hacking,
-- David
[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?ElDoc
[2] http://orgmode.org/manual/Hacking.html
[3] http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp.html
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