A year (or maybe more) ago, I started toying with emacs and soon had to tweak its configuration file, which is actually a program written in elisp, a variant of the Lisps family.

I had no former experience with anything like lisp before, and anytime I touched the .emacs file, a pile of weird error messages would show up when starting emacs. So I thought it might be a good idea to learn the lisp’s syntax so I’d at least know what was that unbalanced quote I kept seeing in .emacs snippets in the internet.

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