Emacs Lisp Function Guide?

Question

I have been using Emacs for more than three years now but it still takes me days to write even small functions in Lisp. I\'ve looked through GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual but

Answer 1

This site has some emacs lisp summary information that may be useful: http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp.html.

In particularly, check out these links on that page: Basic Text-editing Functions, Emacs Lisp Idioms and Batch Text Processing