Re: ielm not described in: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

[steve-humphreys]

> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 11:18 AM
> From: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>
> To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: ielm not described in: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs 
> Lisp
>
> steve-humphreys@gmx.com writes:
>
> > ielm not described in: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp.
> >
> > Yet there are many reasons for beginners to use ielm.  Have some
> > examples and beginners will get more productive using it as they
> > delve into new things.
>
> I guess it's not mentioned, because it is not necessary, and at least to
> my knowledge, most people will be using C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp) and
> C-M-x (eval-defun) in the *scratch* buffer. Using a REPL, when you can
> evaluate any part of a buffer seems like a step back to me.

I think ielm has more features than just plain evaluation.

> But I guess there would be no harm in mentioning it.

But also show a couple of actual examples with real code.

> --
>       Philip K.
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