I think EmacsLisp is getting to be a great application base, a really good language and environment to write programs in, not just a fancy editor. A number of people seem to agree and are trying it out. Here's some tips and tricks distilled from my 15 years of using EmacsLisp to help budding Lisp hackers in Emacs. Do use a modern Emacs The latest version of Emacs is 24. It's not added to a whole l