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+  Most of the GNU Emacs text editor is written in the programming
+language called Emacs Lisp.  You can write new code in Emacs Lisp and
+install it as an extension to the editor.  However, Emacs Lisp is more
+than a mere ``extension language''; it is a full computer programming
+language in its own right.  You can use it as you would any other
+programming language.
+
+  Because Emacs Lisp is designed for use in an editor, it has special
+features for scanning and parsing text as well as features for handling
+files, buffers, displays, subprocesses, and so on.  Emacs Lisp is
+closely integrated with the editing facilities; thus, editing commands
+are functions that can also conveniently be called from Lisp programs,
+and parameters for customization are ordinary Lisp variables.
+
+  This manual attempts to be a full description of Emacs Lisp.  For a
+beginner's introduction to Emacs Lisp, see ``An Introduction to
+Emacs Lisp Programming,'' by Bob Chassell, also published by the Free
+Software Foundation.  This manual presumes considerable familiarity with
+the use of Emacs for editing; see ``The GNU Emacs Manual'' for this
+basic information.
+
+  Generally speaking, the earlier chapters describe features of Emacs
+Lisp that have counterparts in many programming languages, and later
+chapters describe features that are peculiar to Emacs Lisp or relate
+specifically to editing.
+
+  This is edition 2.5.