How to go about learning Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp?

Question

The last few months I\'ve been using Emacs extensively as my main development environment and I\'ve now come to a point at which I\'d like to learn it\'s own Emacs Lisp to w

Answer 1

Start with Emacs Lisp (given that you seem to have already started customizing your emacs) - it seems to be more immediately useful for you.

Do keep in mind that there is quite a bit of difference between Emacs Lisp (there is a lot of buffer management stuff, especially in the code you're likely to see in the wild) and Common Lisp (more similar to a general purpose programming language), so which ever route you take, expect some amount of "wastage"