Re: Emacs C tutorial

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.12491.1414799441.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking something more ABC. Maybe more generic, like things you'd find 
> by searching for "emacs lisp basics". Or perhaps something like 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKtkEMUYGc, which shows from start to finish 
> how to achieve (perhaps not even very useful) results using very easy Emacs 
> Lisp.

The difference is that almost every Emacs user is likely to make use of 
Emacs Lisp, to customize their .emacs. This became a little less 
necessary when M-x customize was created, but still most power Emacs 
users write some code for things that can't be done by setting variables.

Very few Emacs users ever touch the C code. Emacs has been designed so 
that this mostly just contains basic primitives, not many high-level 
operations that would need customization.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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