[yakubin]

> - I don't get lisp's (lisp-2) dynamic scoping (a big reason I haven't switched from vim to emacs). I'm much more comfortable with the lexical scoping of scheme (lisp-1).

"Dynamic vs lexical scope" doesn't have anything to do with "Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2". "Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2" is about whether function values are distinguishable from "defun"-defined functions. "Dynamic vs lexical scope" is about whether variable name-resolution is done based on the lexical scope stack, or the call stack.

You can enable lexical scoping in Elisp files by starting them with:

  ;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; lexical-binding: t; -*-

That's how my ~/.emacs.d/init.el starts.