Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language used as a scripting language by Emacs, a text editor family most commonly associated with GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs, the remainder being written in C, and users typically interact with, extend and customize Emacs by writing and modifying Emacs Lisp code.
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First Released SignificanceImplements most of the editing functionality built into GNU Emacs 1 Connections
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General knowledge, not independently re-fetched: Emacs Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp family, used as GNU Emacs's extension and scripting language.
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1. Emacs Lisp (Wikipedia)
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First appeared: 1985
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It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs.
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