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Minor clarifications. (Display): Rearrange menu. (Standard Faces): Mention query-replace face. (Faces): Simplify. (Font Lock): Simplify face customization info. (Highlight Changes): Node merged into Highlight Interactively. (Highlight Interactively): Much rewriting and cleanup. (Optional Mode Line): Narrowed line number not good for goto-line. Simplify face customization advice. (Text Display): Mention use of escape-glyph face. Move ctl-arrow and tab-width here. (Display Custom): Move no-redraw-on-reenter to end of node.

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@settitle GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
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@center @titlefont {GNU Emacs Lisp}
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@quotation
  Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming
language called Emacs Lisp.  You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and
install it as an extension to the editor.  However, Emacs Lisp is more
than a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programming
language in its own right.  You can use it as you would any other
programming language.

  Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special
features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling
files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on.  Emacs Lisp is
closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands
are 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 earlier
chapters describe features of Emacs Lisp that have counterparts in
many programming languages, and later chapters describe features that
are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate specifically to editing.
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