[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Benjamin Scott wrote:
> > How about a presentation on customizing emacs? (Yes, I realize this is
> > rather like a presentation on "Applications for transistors", but hey...)
> >
>
> Hey, I'm interested in hearing about this one...(customizing emacs, that
> is, NOT 'applications for transistors' :-)
The biggest issue with customizing emacs is that doing so nearly
always requires knowledge of Lisp (which, for people who don't know,
is a general purpose programming language). Emacs has it's own
variant of Lisp called Emacs Lisp, or elisp for short.
Lisp is a great language, but it does require some effort to learn.
Many people find Lisp to be "sufficiently weird" so that they have
trouble accomplishing their goals within the constructs of the
language. Usually people in this state complain about there being
"too many damn parentheses in this @#^$% language".
I'm just trying to point out the issues here, that's all.
--kevin
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