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> Emacs Lisp — millions of people run Lisp every day without knowing it, because their editor is a Lisp interpreter.

Are there seriously any emacs users who are completely unaware of elisp? Isn't elisp the entire point of picking emacs?

Most Emacs users I personally know simply treat it as an editor. They're not really aware how it works under the hood.

Still doubt, that they are unaware of Elisp. Bare bones vanilla Emacs is maybe a bit much to get used to these days, so anyone wanting to configure their Emacs will have opened their init.el or so file and will have put some Elisp snippets there.

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