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19 Sep 2025

I'm not the only one who can't write elisp

I've been using Copilot to help with Elisp. Unfortunately, Copilot isn't very good at writing code. It writes a function. I incorporate it into my init.el file and run it. It fails. I go back to Copilot and it explains the error and gives me new code. Rince and repeat. Over and over again!

When I worked for IBM, some people said it stood for "It's better manually." I think some people are coming to that conclusion when writing code. It's better to do it yourself!

Tags: Emacs

This blog post was created by Rill on a Raspberry Pi, with the help of GNU Emacs, Org mode, and the org-static-blog package.