Starting to get more comfortable with elisp, making emacs even more powerful

I am starting to get my head around elisp and it is very powerful. The more I use it, the more I enjoy it. In the past, I would put a few scripts together, pipe CLI or rely on someone else's TUI. But there is something awesome about elisp and emacs, I can't quite put my finger on. I believe it's the tight integration of scripting abilities and CLI-like features. It allows you to create "TUI-like"…