Re: emacs lisp problem

[Lute Kamstra]

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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