Emphasis seems odd here. Keybindings are just about the most trivially (and commonly) customized part of Emacs, and things like CUA-mode and customized Mac buil

Emphasis seems odd here. Keybindings are just about the most trivially (and commonly) customized part of Emacs, and things like CUA-mode and customized Mac builds of Emacs are common ways of dealing with the issue. Whereas the major benefit of Emacs for Lisp development---having your development environment written in Lisp, by Lispers, who have collectively spent 30 years or so improving its Lisp editing/development capabilities both in included and in third-party elisp libraries---is not mentioned. I think the poster implicitly points out something interesting---that Java and Common Lisp are both large languages that require sophisticated tools to use effectively. I'm not talking about Emacs versus Eclipse here, I mean the toolset in your brain. Money quote: "IntelliJ makes Java programming as easy as it can possibly be. It more or less compiles your code as you type it, points out most bugs as they occur, intelligently suggests code completion to finish your words for you. I generates all the annoying repetitive code, like getters and setters and equals() methods for you. Without it, Java would be much more laborious to program in..." So to Java users, writing annoying repetitive code is a life-saving feature of the IDE, whereas for Common Lisp it would simply be bad style.