Emacs Lisp Floor
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Emacs lisp floor. This function is entirely compatible with common lisp s floor function except that it returns the two results in a list since emacs lisp does not support multiple valued functions. Html entirely on one web page. Emacs has a built in set of commands available in every buffer. That covered the why well enough but the how is still another question.
Cl ceiling number optional divisor. Emacs lisp is a dialect of the lisp programming language used as a scripting language by emacs a text editor family most commonly associated with gnu emacs and xemacs. Emacs lisp for hackers part 1. And several subsets of commands available when you activate a.
This manual is available in the following formats. An introduction to programming in emacs lisp. If divisor is specified this uses the kind of division operation that corresponds to mod rounding downward. Comes with commands to evaluate and navigate within elisp code.
Lisp interaction refers to a set of commands available here. There is plenty of information out there about elisp. However as i began to learn i found that none of it took the form that i like when i learn something. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into emacs the remainder being written in c as is the lisp interpreter.
Here we use the lisp interaction mode which. This returns number converted to an integer by rounding downward towards negative infinity.