Programming editors

I have used barebones nano since forever.

I've had a look at emacs and it seems good, specially for C and Common Lisp (the only languages I know).

But it seems hard to get everything working well. I wanted pretty colors, tracking of parenthesis/brackets, auto indentation, etc.). Could someone point out how to do it?

Thank you, /prog/

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shareware is not liked here. m4 is just enough for macros. But if OP can risk shareware, it is a good stepping stone.

:s/shareware/charityware/