Advise on learning to emacs and computer science starting with programming in elisp?

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  • clog

    CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

  • You can do cool stuff in Common Lisp: differentiate, DSLs, CLOG, a 3D IDE, A Window Manager By the way: most of this is doable in other languages, too.

  • kons-9

    Common Lisp 3D Graphics Project

  • You can do cool stuff in Common Lisp: differentiate, DSLs, CLOG, a 3D IDE, A Window Manager By the way: most of this is doable in other languages, too.

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  • stumpwm

    The Stump Window Manager

  • You can do cool stuff in Common Lisp: differentiate, DSLs, CLOG, a 3D IDE, A Window Manager By the way: most of this is doable in other languages, too.

  • helpful

    A better Emacs *help* buffer

  • One piece of advice: install Helpful, which provides enhanced help pages (over those provided by describe-function) that, among other things, show you the source code right there in the help page. It then becomes very easy to dig into how things are made.

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