John Hasler wrote: > I'm not trying to persuade anyone to use Emacs. I am trying to convince > people not to be deterred from trying it because of myths such as "You > can't use Emacs if you can't program in Lisp".
Sorry John, but all of this is obsolete, if you are pragmatic enough, you would admit it. Just take a step back and have a look from the other side. What I am trying to say is that it is not worth investing time in learning it - learning not lisp, but the whole emacs stuff and partially lisp, because as someone said sooner or later you need this or that - finally this is THE feature of emacs. If you do not take advantage of lisp, then why not use any other editor. Sorry!