5.8.2 Elisp Usage

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Invoke the Casual Elisp main menu casual-elisp-tmenu via the binding M-m (or your binding of preference) in an Elisp window. Typically this is whenever an ‘.el’ file is opened.

The following sections are offered in the menu:

Evaluate

Commands to evaluate or execute an Elisp expression ((elisp)Eval).

Xref

Cross-referencing commands ((emacs)Xref).

Checkdoc

Checks docstrings in the file.

Byte-Compile

Commands for byte-compilation ((elisp)Byte Compilation).

Find

Find commands.

Navigate

Commands for Sexp (balanced expression) navigation.

Edebug Support

Using the prefix C-u when casual-elisp-tmenu is raised will change the “d Defunⁿ” menu item to “d Edebugⁿ” to support instrumenting a function for Edebug ((elisp)Edebug).

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Elisp Unicode Symbol Support

By enabling “u Use Unicode Symbols” from the Settings menu, Casual Elisp will use Unicode symbols as appropriate in its menus.