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Re: emacs lisp problem
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Lute Kamstra |
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Re: emacs lisp problem |
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Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:24:25 +0200 |
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Heng Xu <xuheng@iastate.edu> writes:
> I am a newbie to lisp and I am using Emacs most of the time. I
> heard from people that emacs's lisp capacity is really limited. I
> want to use emacs to continue learning lisp though. Is there a way
> out? Thanks a ton!:-))
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but "Emacs' Lisp capacity" is a
bit ambiguous:
1. Emacs is for the most part written in a dialect of Lisp, called
Emacs Lisp. Some people argue that this dialect of Lisp is a bit
limited (compared to Common Lisp, for example).
2. Emacs can, of course, be used to edit Lisp code. I think that
everybody agrees that for this purpose, Emacs is very good. (There
are weird people that use the evil vi, but they do not edit Lisp
code.)
Lute.
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