Author: Pascal J. BourguignonPascal J. Bourguignon Date: Jul 20, 2008 14:04
formido gmail.com> writes:
> How does one redirect evaluation output to a separate buffer in lisp-
> interaction mode?
> I'm just getting started with emacs, but it's quite
> similar to an AppleScript environment called Smile that I'm very
> familiar with.
It's the reverse, it's that AppleScript environment that is quite
similar to emacs.
> By default, you start in an interactive script shell
> there, too, and the first thing I do after a new install is change the
> prefs to redirect output to the "console". Hopefully I can achieve a
> similar effect here, cos it makes incrementally developing a script
> easier, I think.
Normally, emacs "scripts" don't have output. What they do is to
_edit_ some buffer.
You could use M-x ielm RET to try out emacs lisp expressions in a
separate REPL.
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