I need to remember the other ways to run my elisp code. It will help to be able to do it inline when I want the resutls put into the documet I am editing, it will also help to be able to run a function from where my point currently is when I am figuring out somthing. To that end here are three ways to run elisp code:
- C-j: will spit the result into the *scratch* buffer when testing scratch code there
- M-C-x: will echo the result into the mini buffer when the point is in the function
- C-xC-e: will echo the result into the mini buffer when point is just after the last )
These commands also work for atoms: expressions not in parens such as numbers, strings, characters and symbols.