Emacs as My Go To Script Language

Explore how Emacs and Lisp can serve as a powerful scripting environment in this conference talk from EmacsConf 2019. Discover why Howard Abrams shifted from traditional shell scripting to using Emacs Lisp for transient helper scripts. Learn about the paradigm shift from piping text between executables to transforming buffers with function calls. Examine the Piper project, which enhances the scripting capabilities of Emacs Lisp. Gain insights into interactive vs. script-based workflows, working with large buffers, and the advantages of the Emacs/Lisp approach to text manipulation. Despite some technical issues during the presentation, the talk provides valuable information on leveraging Emacs as a go-to scripting language for increased productivity and flexibility.