These days, prompting chat GPT is the way to go for generating small examples and asking about things with little background.
M-x elisp-index-search. The Elisp manual is not bad, almost pretty good. There's some examples in shortdocs, but I think shortdocs use case is dead because of generative AI's and will only get more dead.
Use ielm and eval-last-sexp as well as eval-region.
Install the helpful package for useful commands like helpful-symbol.
I think once I got familiar with all of the various flavors of let binding and mapc and mapcar, even if what I was doing didn't seem like mind-blowing code, it also is pretty straightforward to read and write.
Now it should be pretty easy. You just need this configuration to avoid mispelling lambdas:
These days, prompting chat GPT is the way to go for generating small examples and asking about things with little background.
M-x elisp-index-search. The Elisp manual is not bad, almost pretty good. There's some examples in shortdocs, but I think shortdocs use case is dead because of generative AI's and will only get more dead.
Sometimes we write Elisp examples: https://github.com/positron-solutions/transient-showcase I have to update that because transient got some upgrades.
Use ielm and eval-last-sexp as well as eval-region.
Install the helpful package for useful commands like helpful-symbol.
I think once I got familiar with all of the various flavors of let binding and mapc and mapcar, even if what I was doing didn't seem like mind-blowing code, it also is pretty straightforward to read and write.
Now it should be pretty easy. You just need this configuration to avoid mispelling lambdas: