I started reading emacs lisp intro. I haven’t seen any mentioning of data types. can anyone summarize datatypes in elisp with simple examples.?
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I started reading emacs lisp intro. I haven’t seen any mentioning of data types. can anyone summarize datatypes in elisp with simple examples.?
Lisp fundamentally only has atoms and lists. Emacs has a wealth of editor-related special objects (characters, buffers, frames, markers, processes, keymaps, etc) some of which are implemented as lists or vectors (a special kind of list) but for a general overview, strings, numbers, symbols, and lists of these are probably all you need in order to get started.