Something that helped me (even though I didn't plan it that way) was switching over to emacs for coding and extending it using elisp. Suddenly, whenever I felt

Something that helped me (even though I didn't plan it that way) was switching over to emacs for coding and extending it using elisp. Suddenly, whenever I felt that there was a function or enhancement that I'd like the editor to have, I could implement it right away elisp and use it right away. You don't even need to create a plugin file or anything, you just hop over to the scratch buffer, write your function, evaluate it, and you extended the functionality. It is so easy that I do it all the time now. That really helped me learn more lisp.