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I have followed Sacha for a long while, love her frequent Emacs updates. I am a rabid Common Lisp enthusiast, and I bought the Mastering Emacs book last year, I
by mark_l_watson 2y ago
I have followed Sacha for a long while, love her frequent Emacs updates. I am a rabid Common Lisp enthusiast, and I bought the Mastering Emacs book last year, I just need to pull the trigger and try doing a project in Emacs Lisp.
- tiberious726 2y agoCommon lisp -> elisp is an incredibly frustration transition. Get ready to really think in terms of dynamic scoping. I did it the other way, and going back to elisp is /hard/.
- bigdict 2y agoI thought lexical scoping is standard now?
- tiberious726 2y agoNo: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Variable-Scoping.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Va... In practice, everyone writing new projects uses it, but when you choose to interact with existing code...