How can you write multiple statements in elisp 'if' statement?

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Martin Cote · May 26, 2009 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

In elisp, there is an 'if' case where I would like to perform many different things:

(if condition
    (do-something)
    (do-something-else)
    ...)

However, (do-something-else) is executed in the else-case only. How can you specify a block of instructions to execute? For example:

(if condition
    (begin
        (do-something)
        (do-something-else)
        ...))

Answer

Use progn:

(if condition
    (progn
        (do-something)
        (do-something-else)))