Re: [Mac-emacs-users] new to emacs!

[Andrew C. <ak...@cs...>]

> my questions are:
> 
> is this a decent environment to learn lisp in?  i've gleaned it
> probably is . . .
> 
> and, is it possible to compile lisp programs using emacs elisp?

Hi,

Perhaps others are more qualified to answer the question about
environments for learning Lisp on a Mac.  I used (the commercial
product) MCL a while ago and found that to be quite a nice Lisp
development environment.  SCM Mac is a good free Scheme interpreter.

  http://www.io.com/~cobblers/scm/

Scheme is not Lisp, but it is also a nice language.

If you haven't already, you can get the Emacs Lisp manual at:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/elisp-manual-20-2.5.tar.gz

Emacs compiles Lisp programs to byte code.  See ``byte-compile'', e.g.

Andrew.