A very, very newbie question :)

[Alex]

> The main advantage of Emacs is that it is extensible. 

idle has this advantage, too.  The problem for me as far as moving to
idle is concerned is that I have eight years of extensions to emacs that
I don't want to give up.  I wouldn't actually kill anyone for a
elisp-to-python-for-idle converter, but I would cheerfully mortally
offend them.

Alex.

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