Indeed—most of the weirdness comes from things like dynamic scoping (deprecated, going away, good riddance—most of the packages I use have all switched to using

Indeed—most of the weirdness comes from things like dynamic scoping (deprecated, going away, good riddance—most of the packages I use have all switched to using lexical scoping anyway) and function names like `mapcar` instead of just `map`. But that's a trivial matter. Would I write a shell script in Emacs Lisp just for kicks? No. Is it more than good enough to script the crap out of my text editor? Oh yeah. > read other's code I'll second this: there are so many really good packages out there that it makes it easy to find something to get some pointers on how to proceed.