Ensure Emacs Lisp track is ready for v2 launch about emacs-lisp HOT 6 CLOSED

Done.

As far as I can tell, from the list in:
#88 (comment)
the 3 first points have been completed.

There are only the items about the code snippet and the exercises.

Is anybody working on that (I'm just learning elisp, I'm not qualified here)?

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I just skimmed over the checklist, looks like we have everything covered 👍

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Things that can be checked off:

The track has a page on the v2 site: https://v2.exercism.io/tracks/elisp
The first exercise is auto_approve: true

Things that need to be completed:

• The *.org files in docs/ need to be converted into *.md markdown files
• The track page needs a short description under the name (not starting with TODO) - this is the blurb key in config.json
• The "About" section needs expanding into a friendly, colloquial, compelling introduction which follows the formatting guidelines
• The code snippet is too wide and too tall for the track's page (see https://v2.exercism.io/tracks/elisp)
• Some exercises (~8) need to be marked as core in config.json, and other non-core exercises can then have unlocked_by set
• Exercises need to have rough estimates of difficulty
• Exercises need have topics associated with them

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What about this for the blurb:

"Emacs Lisp is the extension language of the Emacs text editor and as such one of the most used Lisp dialects in the world. It is used to write full-fledged applications that run within Emacs but also user preference files."

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The "About" section of the page is a bit short. What about something like this:

Emacs Lisp is the language at the core of Emacs, the iconic text editor that is at the beginning of the Free Software movement.
Emacs is made of more than a million lines of Emacs Lisp, and all the applications that run inside Emacs (IDEs for various programming languages, games, planners, etc.) are written in Emacs Lisp.
User preferences are also lists of Emacs Lisp expressions.

Knowing Emacs Lisp is the first step into Lisp, the second oldest programming language still used (just turned 60 in 2018) and also a language that still influences so many other programming languages.

Quoting the creator of Emacs:
"Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program."

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Great suggestions @brandelune! Care to open up a PR with these changes?

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