"Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At the top of the "Programming in Emacs Lisp", before and around the section > Practicing Evaluation, examples are given for the novice to evaluate by c-x > c-e. And this does produce the result in the minibuffer or echo section > below. > > My question is, How should create a buffer in which the results will be > echoed in the buffer, like in a lisp-evaluation-mode ? > > In particular, what extension whould this file/buffer be called. Presumeably > name.el where expressions are evaluated by highlighted and evaluated by c-x > c-e but then doesn't this required the major-mode to be changed every time > the file/buffer is opened ? > > I am looking for a file in which I can incrementally create an emacs-lisp > program, will much trial and error, where screes of text can be printed as > a result if necessary, and the minibuffer is just not big enough. > > Now, if some setup *---interactive-mode---* stuff could be included at the > top of that buffer, then that would be ideal. Perhaps it is an > "self-evaluating form" that I really need. > > Any suggestions or comments appreciate. > >
I assume that you know that the **scratch** buffer is set up automatically in lisp interaction mode. You can convert any buffer to this mode by simply invoking M-x lisp-interaction-mode while in the buffer. I think you could make this your default mode by putting '(default-major-mode (quote lisp-interaction-mode)) into your .emacs with Options>Customize>Specific Option, etc. Ed _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
