> I'm worried that if I started using Emacs, I'd start hacking the Elisp (which I'd be terribly good at), and hate the lack of lexical scope, etc. emacs has le

> I'm worried that if I started using Emacs, I'd start hacking the Elisp (which I'd be terribly good at), and hate the lack of lexical scope, etc. emacs has lexical scope these days:-) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LexicalBinding https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LexicalBinding elisp still isn't nearly as good as Common Lisp, but it at least has lexical scope now.