Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>>>     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.
> 

Not that difficult:  you start by analyzing a function and asks help for 
that function.  As you dig in the code you see it calling other 
functions and again you ask help for those functions that may interest 
you and so on.  Small baby steps.  Digging the whole emacs manual at 
once is insane.  You search for particular features and goes from there.

Reminded me of a joke:
How do you take elephant soup?  One spoon after the other... :)

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