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You will not have this issue if you bother learning emacs lisp first. C-h is your friend.

• BeetleB 3y ago
  As a multi-decade Emacs user, this sentiment was never correct, and needs to die. You can do insanely powerful stuff in Emacs without learning elisp. I myself was a power user for 9 years before I learned elisp. While it definitely gets you to the "next level", learning it was not a revolutionary improvement.
  • gpderetta 3y ago
    Learning elisp is indeed absolutely not required. But it is hard to use emacs for many years without learning a bit if elisp by osmosis.
    • BeetleB 3y ago
      The amount I knew was trivial: How to set a variable, and perhaps one or two other things. I didn't know how to do conditionals and for loops. For my config, beyond setting variables I mostly copy/pasted. It gets you very far.