27.7 Executing Lisp Expressions
Emacs has major modes for several variants of Lisp. They use the
same editing commands as other programming language modes
(see Programs). In addition, they provide special commands for
executing Lisp expressions.
- Emacs Lisp mode
- The mode for editing Emacs Lisp source files. It defines C-M-x
to evaluate the current top-level Lisp expression. See Lisp Eval.
- Lisp Interaction mode
- The mode for an interactive Emacs Lisp session. It defines C-j
to evaluate the expression before point and insert its value in the
buffer. See Lisp Interaction.
- Lisp mode
- The mode for editing source files of programs that run in Lisps other
than Emacs Lisp. It defines C-M-x to evaluate the current
top-level expression in an external Lisp. See External Lisp.
- Inferior Lisp mode
- The mode for an interactive session with an external Lisp which is
being run as a subprocess (or inferior process) of Emacs.
See External Lisp.
- Scheme mode
- Like Lisp mode, but for Scheme programs.
- Inferior Scheme mode
- Like Inferior Lisp mode, but for Scheme.