[cl-faq] draft answer for Q. Do I really have to learn emacs?

[Peter Seibel]

On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Larry Clapp wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:51:15PM -0800, josh giesbrecht wrote:
>> #|
>> Here's my try at answering the dreaded emacs question.  I'm still  
>> pretty
>> new to Lisp, so feel free to offer revisions or correct any mistakes
>> I've made.  I've tried to be neutral on the quasi-religious editor
>> topic, but if any of it still feels too 'opinion', feel free to  
>> point it
>> out.
>>   - josh g.
>> p.s. I copied the lispified content formatting of the previous
>> answer ... does it actually help?  I missed if it was mentioned on
>> the list somewhere.
>> |#
>
> I don't know if it helps.  I made it up based loosely on a post Peter
> made in the Gardeners list.  Maybe Peter will answer.

Check out the formatting I use in:

   <http://www.lispniks.com/faq/faq.txt>

(Mentioned in my earlier posting today.) This is how I'm actually  
editing the FAQ at the moment. (It's actually thinly disguised s- 
exps--I have a parser that turns \foo{bar} into (:foo "bar"). The  
main advantage for marking up text is that you don't have to escape  
"'s. Anyway, that may change in the future but that's how I'm doing  
it at the moment.

-Peter

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