A very, very newbie question :)

[Roy Smith]

jonadab at bright.net (Jonadab the Unsightly One) wrote:
> In brief, to use Emacs really effectively you need to take
> the time to learn lisp, but once you do it can literally do
> anything.

That's absurd.  I've been using emacs for about 15 years now, and while I do 
also know lisp, I've never once done anything with lisp and emacs more 
sophisticated than taking some lisp snippet and cutting-and-pasting it into my 
emacs startup file.

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Roy Smith <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu>
New York University School of Medicine