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Using Emacs requires learning Lisp?Using Emacs requires learning Lisp?Posted Mar 23, 2007 18:27 UTC (Fri) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)In reply to: by landley Parent article: The road to freedom in the embedded world
No, I use vi over Emacs because learning Lisp never struck me as a reasonable requirement for a text editor to impose on its' users. How does editing text with Emacs require learning Lisp? I'll admit that I do know Lisp but I don't often apply that to Emacs. Even when I do I'm experimenting or adding some custom feature, which is not normal use. I appreciate the light footprint and ubiquity of vi and I have no trouble accepting that many people like it better than Emacs, but I hope you have some reasons less silly than this one.
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Using Emacs requires learning Lisp? Posted Mar 26, 2007 12:53 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Doing anything much with Emacs customization used to require learning Lisp, but this hasn't been true for perhaps a decade. One of the problems with long-lived projects is that they acquire reputations which they then drag around long after they are no longer accurate.
(In any case, it's not as if elisp is very hard to learn, at least not to the depth required to customize Emacs. I learnt that much of it in two hours when I was twelve from the emacs-lisp-intro...)
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