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WikEmacs (pronounced wikimacs) collects useful resources for working with GNU Emacs. You can call it A Community Maintained Emacs Wiki.

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The latest stable release of Emacs is Emacs-23.4. The next major release is Emacs-24.1 and is in Pretest stage.

Emacs is available on all popular Operating Systems including GNU/Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows. It supports a variety of programming languages.

Explore this wiki using one of these trails.

What is your comfort level with Emacs?

Beginner

Intermediate

Expert

Vim User

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What do you want to accomplish now?

Install Or Upgrade

Customize Emacs

Tweak Key Bindings

Learn more Emacs (Tutorials)

What do you use Emacs for?

Text Editing

Programming

Document authoring

Getting Organized

Emailing

Chatting

Blogging

Browsing

Other

How do you involve yourself with the community?

Category:Emacs User

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Automation in Emacs

• Keyboard macros
• Emacs Lisp

Configuring Emacs

• Custom for choosing and setting options.
• Scripting your Init File (`(info "(emacs) Init File")') file using Emacs Lisp .

Convenience

• Completion and selection
  • Ido: Interactively 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 Markup languages to help you in your workflow of 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 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

• Emacspeak for the visually impaired.

Getting Involved

• IRC Channel

• Mailing list archives

• 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

Real Programmers

Try M-x 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 vi