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Preface
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   Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the
programming language called Emacs Lisp.  The code written in this
programming language is the software--the sets of instructions--that
tell the computer what to do when you give it commands.  Emacs is
designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily
install it as an extension to the editor.

   (GNU Emacs is sometimes called an "extensible editor", but it does
much more than provide editing capabilities.  It is better to refer to
Emacs as an "extensible computing environment".  However, that phrase
is quite a mouthful.  It is easier to refer to Emacs simply as an
editor.  Moreover, everything you do in Emacs--find the Mayan date and
phases of the moon, simplify polynomials, debug code, manage files,
read letters, write books--all these activities are kinds of editing in
the most general sense of the word.)

Why
Why learn Emacs Lisp?
On Reading this Text
Read, gain familiarity, pick up habits....
Who You Are
For whom this is written.
Lisp History
Note for Novices
You can read this as a novice.
Thank You

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