From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: concatenating strings Date: 18 Nov 2002 05:23:26 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3246585806168578@naggum.no> References: <1eaf81aa.0211162339.29f501f@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037597007 14948 129.240.65.5 (18 Nov 2002 05:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Nov 2002 05:23:27 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:47033 * Christopher C. Stacy | If your problem is that you don't like to type long names, why not use | the abbreviation facility that is built into your editor? For example, | in Emacs, you can make the string "mvb" automatically expand into | "multiple-value-bind". Emacs can also expand m-v-b into multiple-value-bind if you use partial completion mode. Typing less is among the best reasons to use Emacs, but people who remain in typewriter age will likely not understand how much redundancy there is in what we type and how few words we actually use. "What you see is what you get" to many imply "what you type is what you see", but this is a fantastically limiting mode of using your computer. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.