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How to run an emacs lisp program in the scratch buffer

Date: July 26, 2007 | Tags: emacs

start emacs
in the scratch buffer, type: (+ 2 2)
press CTRL-X CTRL-E
you should get 4 in the echo area at the bottom of the screen

See also the Run a Program section in An Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming

Colorized, interactive "git blame" in Emacs: vc-annotate — posted 2011-05-28
My Emacs Python environment — posted 2010-05-10
Emacs espresso-mode for jQuery — posted 2010-03-10
Notes on C++ development with Emacs on Ubuntu Linux — posted 2009-07-08
Creating remote server nicknames with .ssh/config — posted 2008-11-20
Emacs notes — posted 2008-11-03

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