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About

Useful resources for working with Gnu Emacs. See also Emacs (Wikipedia).

This wiki is intended as a next generation replacement for Emacswiki

Getting started with Emacs

Text editing in Emacs

Emacs and Desktop Integration

Typesetting, Document Markup and Document Creation in Emacs

Emacs as an IDE

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Emacs is called CEDET. See Gentle Introduction to CEDET.

For Literate Programming see Org Babel.

Programming and Scripting Languages

Markup Languages

Compiling

Debugging

REPLs

Version Control

  • dvc provides a standard interface between emacs and distributed version control systems
  • vc provides a standard interface between emacs and conventional version control systems
  • bzr can be managed using dvc
  • Clearcase
  • CVS can be managed using vc
  • git can be managed using dvc or magit
  • Mercurial can be managed using dvc
  • SVN can be managed using vc
  • RCS can be managed using vc
  • Within Emacs, ediff provides sophisticated diff and merge functions

Productivity

Communication

Web browsing and web development

Shells and terminal emulation

Accessibility

Security and cryptography

Getting Involved

  • IRC Channel

Contributing to Emacs

  • Testers
    • Profiling
    • Memory Usage
    • Reporting Bugs
  • Core Developers
    • Project Leaders
      • Stefan Monnier
      • Chong Yidong
    • Others

Niche Uses

Games and Entertainment

  • Tetris
  • Doctor
  • Humor

History

  • XEmacs and Gnu Emacs

Popular Culture and Community

  • St Ignucius and the Church of Emacs
  • Saving the world from vi