Elisp is short for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of Lisp specific to Emacs. If you’re a fresh Emacs user, you’ve certainly practiced it a bit by editing your init.el (i.e. configuration). You may also have spotted that most packages (i.e. plugins) available to Emacs are written in pure Elisp. In fact, Elisp is not limited to extending Emacs functionalities: a good chunk (and admittedly not enough) of Emac