[wkdneidbwf]

this is great! i’ve been messing around with learning common lisp lately and setting up a good dev env was harder than expected.

> Use Emacs

> Emacs is a very powerful and extensible editor. It comes with over 10,000 built-in commands.

this cracks me up. i know lots of people love emacs, but who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect”

[lobstrosity420]

Honestly, I do. I love typing M-x with a random word and finding something that does what I wanted to or is pretty close.

[iLemming]

> who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect”

You have to understand: Those thousands of commands are like songs. You wouldn't pay and subscribe to Spotify if they allowed only a few hundred songs, right? When another editor adds another command, it's not composable. You cannot meddle with it; there are no hooks, no advising. In Emacs, every command is a function, a function you can alter, extend, exploit, or override. So, yes, give me a million elisp functions. I'd love to use them in every weird way possible.

[turboponyy]

The thing is, the 10k commands don't get in the way. You'll never interact with them, unless you type 'M-x thingiwanttodoandwowitsalreadythere'.