\input /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*-@c %**start of header@setfilename back-cover@settitle GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual@c %**end of header.@sp 7@center @titlefont {GNU Emacs Lisp}@sp 1@quotation Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programminglanguage called Emacs Lisp. You can write new code in Emacs Lisp andinstall it as an extension to the editor. However, Emacs Lisp is morethan a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programminglanguage in its own right. You can use it as you would any otherprogramming language. Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has specialfeatures for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handlingfiles, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on. Emacs Lisp isclosely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commandsare functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs,and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables. This manual describes Emacs Lisp. Generally speaking, the earlierchapters describe features of Emacs Lisp that have counterparts inmany programming languages, and later chapters describe features thatare peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate specifically to editing.@end quotation@hfil@bye@ignore arch-tag: ac7694c8-1f02-4b42-9531-33ba13b179e1@end ignore