>>>     Eh? No! You don't have to dig into source code for Emacs to 
>>> customize it. It comes with a Lisp interpreter for a reason!
>>
>> You do if you want to make it do something there isn't a setting for.
> 
> Like a new garbage collector?  Pretty much only the core elisp 
> interpreter and basic IO routines are in C, the rest of emacs is elisp.

I doubt anybody ever needs to dig into the C code. But if you want a new 
Emacs feature that there isn't a setting for, you're going to need to 
dig through a few hundred miles of Lisp to figure out how and where to 
add it. That's what I'm trying to say.

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