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How rewarding learning Elisp can be? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Fate_sc@alien.top to c/emacs
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I'm a new emacs user and I've been using doom emacs for a while now and i'm willing to learn Elisp, but found out that it might not be as easy as it might seem at first, because as i found out, lisp is quite different from other programming languages that i'm used to, especially knowing that i'm not a programmer by any means and my programming knowledge is very little, not mentioning that elisp is pretty old so the learning resources might not be as much as other more popular programming languages

so my question is, Is it worth it?

like what is the level of mastery do i need to achieve to start implementing custom elisp in my configs to enhance my emacs experience?

and how exactly can i improve my emacs experience if i learned elisp?

in other words, how rewarding it would be

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[–] cazzipropri@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not in love with elisp but I learned enough of it to make emacs do what I want.

I'll admit without shame that the for complicated stuff, I do it all in python helpers, and I just use elisp to marshall data to and from python.

A better elisp developer than me would do everything in elisp... but I need to get things done quickly and dirty.

[–] centzon400@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'll admit without shame that the for complicated stuff, I do it all in python helpers

Have to laugh. One of my first paying jobs in tech was to mungle DSSSL/SGML and make presentable HTML.

Because all I knew was Perl… I tried this using regular expressions.

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