Me too. I'm now much more proficient in emacs-lisp than in Python, my second-best language. I don't write bash scripts often enough to remember all the gotchas.

Me too. I'm now much more proficient in emacs-lisp than in Python, my second-best language. I don't write bash scripts often enough to remember all the gotchas. It's a little embarrassing how much I do through emacs: manipulating the file system, url fetching, RPC... stuff you really shouldn't be doing with your text editor. But hey, the tool you know...