For the uninitiated, writing Emacs Lisp is pretty easy. The only thing that requires some getting used to is all the existing functions to work with Emacs. Ther

For the uninitiated, writing Emacs Lisp is pretty easy. The only thing that requires some getting used to is all the existing functions to work with Emacs. There are thousands of them, acting on different facets of the editor, like for receiving user input, manipulating text and interacting with "modes" ; Emacs' abstraction that specifies behavior based on which file is currently being edited.