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Installing Emacs on BSD

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'''WikEmacs''' (pronounced wiki-macs) collects useful resources for working with [[GNU Emacs]]. Think of it as a
'''[http://www.emacswiki.org/ next generation, improved Emacs Wiki]''' . You can also think of it as a '''pastebin''' or '''gist''' for Emacs users.

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'''First time visitors''' can start [[#Explore this wiki | exploring WikEmacs]]. We have added lots of useful pages since the launch of WikEmacs. We want to keep you excited and engaged.

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We need more '''[[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor|WikEmacs Contributor]]s'''. You can help the following way.

* Priority tasks
** Migrate content from [http://www.emacswiki.org EmacsWiki]. Please adopt the following approach -''I found this on EmacsWiki which was helpful. But it took me a lot of time to find it. Now that I have found it, I will put it in WikEmacs so that others can benefit from it.''

* Intermediate tasks
** Provide tutorials or content for the [[:Category:Popular Package|Popular Packages]] or [[:Category:Native Package|Native Packages]].
** Add more content to [[Special:ShortPages]]
** Document or add more [[:Category:Third Party Package|Third Party Package]]s

* Other tasks
** Copy edit [[Special:RecentChanges]] or be a moral police
** Add more members to various [[Special:Categories]]
** Categorize one of these pages [[Special:UncategorizedPages]]

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'''Emacs News'''

The latest stable release of Emacs is [[GNU Emacs 23|Emacs-23.4]].
The next major release is [[GNU Emacs 24|Emacs-24.1]] and is in ''Pretest'' stage.

Emacs is available on all popular [[:Category:Install Or Upgrade| Operating Systems]] including [[Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux | GNU/Linux]], [[Installing Emacs on BSD |BSD]], [[Installing Emacs on OS X | OS X]] and [[Installing Emacs on Windows| Windows]]. It supports a variety of [[:Category:Programming languages|programming languages]].

= Explore this wiki =

To explore this wiki proceed as follows:
* Search for or visit a page of interest
* At the end of the page, there is a list of categories
* Click on individual categories and it will give you a list of all pages that will be of interest to you.

== What is your comfort level with Emacs? ==
* [[:Category:Beginner|Beginner]]
* [[:Category:Intermediate|Intermediate]]
* [[:Category:Expert|Expert]]
** Are you a maintainer of a [[:Category:Native Package|Native Package]]? If you don't find information about your package, please add it. No one else is better than your are to write about it.
** Have you developed any [[:Category:Third Party Package|Third Party Package]]s? Consider writing about what it is and how to use it.
* [[:Category:Vim User|Vim User]]
* [[:Category:User Level|Other]]

== What do you want to accomplish now? ==
* [[:Category:Install Or Upgrade|Install Or Upgrade]]
* [[:Category:Customize Emacs|Customize Emacs]]
* [[:Category:Tweak Key Bindings|Tweak Key Bindings]]
* [[:Category:Tutorial|Learn more Emacs (Tutorials)]]

== What do you use Emacs for? ==
* [[:Category:Text Editing|Text Editing]]
* [[:Category:Programming|Programming]]
* [[:Category:Document authoring|Document authoring]]
* [[:Category:Organizer|Getting Organized]]
* [[:Category:Email|Emailing]]
* [[:Category:Chat|Chatting]]
* [[:Category:Blogging|Blogging]]
* [[:Category:Browse|Browsing]]
* [[:Category:Workflow|Other]]

== How do you involve yourself with the community? ==
* [[:Category:Emacs User]]
* [[:Category:Emacs Contributor]]
* [[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor]]
* [[:Category:User Role|Other]]

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'''WikEmacs''' (pronounced wikimacs) collects useful resources for working with [[GNU Emacs]]. It is intended as a next generation alternative to the traditional [http://www.emacswiki.org/ EmacsWiki]. You can call it ''A Community Maintained Emacs Wiki''.
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'''WikEmacs News'''

We need more [[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor|WikEmacs Contributor]]s.

'''Emacs News'''

The latest stable release of Emacs is [[:Category:Emacs-23.4|Emacs-23.4]]. The next major release is [[:Category:Emacs-24.1|Emacs-24.1]] and is in ''Pretest'' stage.

Emacs is available on all popular [[:Category:Operating System | Operating Systems]] including [[GNU/Linux]], [[BSD]], [[OSX]] and [[Windows]]. It supports a variety of [[:Category:Programming languages|programming languages]].

'''Explore this wiki''' using one of these trails.

; What is your comfort level with Emacs?
: [[:Category:Beginner|Beginner]]
: [[:Category:Intermediate|Intermediate]]
: [[:Category:Expert|Expert]]
: [[:Category:Vim User|Vim User]]
: [[:Category:User Level|Other]]

; What do you want to accomplish now?
: [[:Category:Install Or Upgrade|Install Or Upgrade]]
: [[:Category:Customize Emacs|Customize Emacs]]
: [[:Category:Tweak Key Bindings|Tweak Key Bindings]]
: [[:Category:Tutorial|Learn more Emacs (Tutorials)]]

; What do you use Emacs for?
:[[:Category:Text Editing|Text Editing]]
:[[:Category:Programming|Programming]]
:[[:Category:Document authoring|Document authoring]]
:[[:Category:Organizer|Getting Organized]]
:[[:Category:Email|Emailing]]
:[[:Category:Chat|Chatting]]
:[[:Category:Blogging|Blogging]]
:[[:Category:Browse|Browsing]]
: [[:Category:Workflow|Other]]

; How do you involve yourself with the community?
: [[:Category:Emacs User]]
: [[:Category:Emacs Contributor]]
: [[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor]]
: [[:Category:User Role|Other]]

== Automation in Emacs ==

* [[ Keyboard macros ]]
* [[ Emacs Lisp ]]

== Configuring Emacs ==

* [[ Custom ]] for choosing and setting options.
* Scripting your {{Manual|emacs|Init-File|Init File}} file using [[ Emacs Lisp ]].

== Convenience ==

* Completion and selection
** [[Ido]]: '''I'''nteractively '''do''' things
** [[Helm]]: incremental completion and selection (formerly [[Anything]])
** [[Icicles]]
** Abbrev and dabbrev
** Auto-complete and hippie-expand
** YaSnippet

== Typesetting, Document Markup and Document Creation in Emacs ==

Emacs supports a wide range of [[:Category:Markup languages|Markup languages]] to help you in your workflow of [[:Category:Workflow:Document authoring|document creation]].

== Communication ==

* [[ Blogging ]]
* [[ Chat ]]
* [[ Email ]]
* [[ Feed reading ]]
* [[ Microblogging ]]
* [[ Usenet news ]]

== Web browsing ==

* Launching and interacting with an [[external browser]] from emacs
* Using [[emacs as a browser's external editor]], either when entering text on web pages or when viewing a web page's source document or both.

See also [[:Category:Workflow:Browsing|Workflow:Browsing]]

== Shells and terminal emulation ==

Within Emacs you can interact with various shells and other command-line/text-mode programs running as a sub-process within an Emacs terminal emulator:
* [[ ansi-term ]]
* [[ shell ]]
* [[ term ]]
* [[ multi-term ]]

[[ eshell ]] is a shell (not a terminal emulator, nor a process hosted in one) written in pure [[ Emacs Lisp ]]. It is very powerful, flexible and customizable, but poorly documented at time of writing.

Emacs itself is fully functional either in a terminal or a windowing system. Some keystrokes available under window systems may not work in a terminal and vice versa.

== Accessibility ==

* [http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ Emacspeak] for the visually impaired.

== Security and cryptography ==

* [[ Gnu Privacy Guard ]] (GPG) support and integration

== Getting Involved ==
* IRC Channel

* [[ Mailing list archives ]]

* [http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files Browsable source repository]

[[Contributing to Emacs]]

== Niche Uses ==

* [[ Media player ]]
* [[ Presentations ]]
* [[ Screencasts ]]
* [[ Statistics ]]
* [[ Binary files]]
* [[ Docview ]]
* [[ Pictures ]]
** [[ Inline Images ]]
** [[ Artist mode ]]

== Popular Culture and Community ==

; [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png Real Programmers]
: Try {{Command|butterfly}} on your Emacs right now and unleash its powers.

* Adding Emacs-style key bindings to other programs and operating systems.
* St Ignucius and the Church of Emacs
* Saving the world from <tt>vi</tt>