then it's still a big deal, because there are a lot of people out there who are writing Emacs Lisp code snippets, and you can copy and paste Lisp. You don't need to know it to use it, so you can copy and paste that stuff, put it into Emacs, and have Emacs evaluate it. The most common way to do that is just to put it into your Emacs configuration file, your .emacs file. And then your editor behaves differently. It's huge, honestly. When I started using Emacs, that was how you did it. There were some projects out there called MELPA or ELPA or something that had repositories of commonly used code snippets that you could download. I never got into that until Emacs 24, I think, or 26, I don't know, where it integrated this command called package. And this kind of opens up a whole other concept, a whole other side of Emacs that I didn't even talk about before the copybreak, which is alt-x. Let me launch a fresh copy of Emacs here. Get rid of that. Actually, I won't get rid of that. Okay, so, (35/54)
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