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Emacs enters the chat.
Emacs unfortunately uses Emacs lisp, not common lisp or scheme.
What are the main differences?
Emacs is a bunch older than common lisp.
One of its more idiosyncratic design decisions was using dynamic scope, rather than lexical scope. They did add in per-file lexical scope, though.
It also just doesn't implement a lot of common lisp's standard library.