Emacs Lisp

Summary

A dialect of the Lisp programming language used as a scripting language by the Emacs text editor. It is used for implementing most of the editing functionality built into Emacs.

Paradigms

functional, imperative, reflective, meta-programming

Domains

text processing, scripting, automation

Key Features

first-class functions, macros, reflection, meta-programming

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, weak typing, none inference, runtime checking, moderate type coercion, no type annotations

Compilation

interpreted

Influenced By

Lisp, MacLisp

Ratings

File extensions

el, elc

External Links

• Emacs Lisp official site
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• r/emacs subreddit
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