As you have probably gathered by now, Jade is largely controlled by its built in programming language: a dialect of Lisp containing many extensions (non-standard data types and functions) to make it suitable for controlling an editor. Through this language Jade can be customised and extended.
I have attempted to make the "standard" portion of the language (i.e. anything a normal Lisp would have; not related to editing) as compatible with GNU Emacs Lisp as possible. In some areas this rule doesn't apply, there will usually be a good reason for this. A few functions have been inspired by Common Lisp.
The areas of the language which control the editor are not compatible with Emacs; some functions may be similar but since the two editors are fundamentally different I have not attempted to conform with the Emacs API.
All programs written using only the information in this manual should be compatible with future revisions of Jade.
This following sections explain some of the most important Lisp concepts and the conventions I've used in this manual.
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