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'''Welcome to WikEmacs - A Community Maintained Emacs Wiki'''
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'''WikEmacs''' is here to stay.  Spread the word!
  
Consult the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
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[[File:Emacs_parts.png|320px|thumb|right|Basic [[Emacs Terminology|terminology]] of typical Emacs GUI Frame]]
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'''First time visitors''' can start [[#Explore WikEmacs|exploring WikEmacs]]. We have added lots of useful pages since the launch of WikEmacs.
  
== About ==
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We need more '''[[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor|WikEmacs contributors]]'''.  You can help the following way.
  
Useful resources for working with [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html Gnu Emacs].  See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs Emacs (Wikipedia)].
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{{Note| First of all, please take a minute to look at the
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[[WikEmacs:Guidelines|WikEmacs guidelines]] before you start editing.}}
  
This wiki is intended as a next generation replacement for [http://www.emacswiki.org/ Emacswiki]
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* Priority tasks
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** Add content. Please adopt the following approach - ''I found this on the web 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''. You can start by documenting Emacs' support of your favorite programming language.
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* Intermediate tasks
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** Provide tutorials or content for the [[:Category:Popular Package|popular packages]] or [[:Category:Built-in Package|built-in packages]].
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** Add more content to [[Special:ShortPages|short pages]].
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** Document or add more [[:Category:Third Party Package|third party packages]].
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* Other tasks
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** Copy edit [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] or be a moral police.
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** Add more members to various [[Special:Categories|categories]].
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** Categorize one of these pages [[Special:UncategorizedPages|uncategorized pages]].
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** Follow the [http://wikemacs.org/api.php?hidebots=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom RSS feed] to watch edits, new users and help fighting vandalism (fortunately quite low).
  
== Getting started ==
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* [[Installing Emacs]]
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'''Emacs News'''
* [[Starter Kits]]
 
* [[Learning Resources]]
 
* [[Package Managers]]
 
  
== Programming in Emacs ==
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The latest stable release of Emacs is [[GNU Emacs 29|Emacs-29.4]] released on June 22nd, 2024. The precedent is [[GNU Emacs 28|Emacs-28.2]].
  
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Emacs is called [http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ CEDET]. See [http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html Gentle Introduction to CEDET].
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Emacs is available on all popular [[:Category:Install Or Upgrade| operating systems]] including [[Installing Emacs on BSD |BSD]], [[Installing Emacs on GNU/Linux | GNU/Linux]], [[Installing Emacs on OS X | OS X]] and [[Installing Emacs on Windows| Windows]]. It supports a variety of [[:Category:Programming languages|programming languages]].
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== Explore WikEmacs ==
  
For Literate Programming see [http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/ Org Babel].
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To explore WikEmacs proceed as follows:
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* Search for or visit a page of interest
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* At the end of the page, there is a list of categories
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* Click on individual categories and it will give you a list of all pages that will be of interest to you.
  
* [[Ada]]
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===  What is your comfort level with Emacs? ===
* [[antlr]]
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* [[:Category:Beginner|Beginner]]
* [[asm]]
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* [[:Category:Intermediate|Intermediate]]
* [[awk]]
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* [[:Category:Expert|Expert]]
* [[C/C++]]
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** Are you a maintainer of a [[:Category:Built-in Package|Built-in Package]]? If you don't find information about your package, please add it. No one else can write about your package as well as you.
* [[Clojure]]
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** Have you developed any [[:Category:Third Party Package|Third Party Package]]s? Consider writing about what it is and how to use it.
* [[Common Lisp]]
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* [[:Category:Vim User|Vim User]]
* [[CSS]]
 
* [[Emacs Lisp]]
 
* [[Fortran]]
 
* [[Groovy]]
 
* [[Haskell]]
 
* [[HTML]]
 
* [[Icon]]
 
* [[IDL]]
 
* [[Java]]
 
* [[JavaScript]] and [[JSON]]
 
* [[make]]
 
* [[Modula2]]
 
* [[OCaml]]
 
* [[Octave]]
 
* [[Pascal]] and [[Delphi]]
 
* [[perl]]
 
* [[PHP]]
 
* [[PostScript]]
 
* [[Prolog]]
 
* [[Python]]
 
* [[Ruby]]
 
* [[Scala]]
 
* [[Scheme]]
 
* [[SGML]]
 
* [[shell script]]
 
* [[Simula]]
 
* [[SQL]]
 
* [[tcl]]
 
* [[TeX]], [[LaTeX]], [[TeXinfo]], [[BibTeX]] etc.
 
* [[XML]]
 
  
== Productivity ==
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=== What do you want to accomplish now? ===
* [[ org-mode ]]
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* [[:Category:Install Or Upgrade|Install Or Upgrade]]
* [[ calc ]]
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* [[:Category:Customization|Customize Emacs]]
* [[ calendar ]]
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* [[Key Bindings|Tweak Key Bindings]]
* [[ diary ]]
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* [[:Category:Tutorial|Learn more Emacs (Tutorials)]]
* Contacts: [[ bbdb ]]
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* [[:Category:Emacs Lisp|Learn Emacs Lisp]]
  
== Communication ==
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=== What do you use Emacs for? ===
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* [[:Category:Text Editing|Text Editing]]
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* [[:Category:Programming|Programming]]
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* [[:Category:Document authoring|Document authoring]]
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* [[:Category:Organizer|Getting Organized]]
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* [[:Category:Email|Emailing]]
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* [[:Category:Chat|Chatting]]
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* [[:Category:Blog|Blogging]]
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* [[:Category:Browse|Browsing]]
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* [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]]
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* [[:Category:Workflow|Other]]
  
* [[ Blogging ]]
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=== How do you involve yourself with the community? ===
* [[ Chat ]]
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* [[:Category:Emacs User|Emacs User]]
* [[ Email ]]
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* [[:Category:Emacs Contributor|Emacs Contributor]]
* [[ Feed reading ]]
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* [[:Category:WikEmacs Contributor|WikEmacs Contributor]]
** [[ gnus ]]
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* [[Financial_Support|Financial Supporter]]
* [[ Microblogging ]]
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* [[:Category:User Role|Other]]
** [[ identica-mode ]]
 
** [[ twitter-mode ]]
 
* [[ Usenet news ]]
 
** [[ gnus ]]
 
  
== Web browsing and web development ==
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* [[ w3 ]]
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==Help build WikEmacs==
* [[ w3m-el ]]
 
* Using an external browser
 
** [[ mozrepl ]]
 
* Using emacs as a browser's external editor
 
** Firefox family
 
** Webkit family (Safari, Chrome, etc)
 
** Internet Explorer
 
  
== Getting Involved ==
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The following are suggestions for articles to write, along with the page of the GNU Emacs manual which documents this feature. ('''Note:''' it's possible that an article for a given topic exists already under a different name. In that case, please ensure that the article includes the link to the manual page, and then remove the topic from this list.)
* Mailing list archives
 
** [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/ Emacs users]
 
** [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/ Emacs developers]
 
** [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/ Emacs bugs]
 
** [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/ Emacs sources]
 
  
* Source Repository
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<!-- Not finished.  I grabbed ideas from large section titles of the manual, but there are many more in the "Detailed Node Listing", longer version of the table of contents. -->
** [http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files Browsable Repo]
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* [[Command-line startup options]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Entering-Emacs.html] and [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Invocation.html])
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* [[Built-in help]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Help.html])
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* [[Registers]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Registers.html])
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* [[:Category:Search|Search for text in a buffer]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Search.html])
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* [[Fixing typos]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fixit.html])
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* [[Keyboard macros]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Keyboard-Macros.html])
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* [[Windows within a frame]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows.html])
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* [[Frames]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Frames.html])
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* [[International character sets]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/International.html])
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* [[Indentation]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indentation.html])
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* [[Editing source code]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Programs.html])
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* [[Building software]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Building.html])
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* [[Maintaining source code repositories]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Maintaining.html])
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* [[Abbrevs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html])
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* [[Dired]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html])
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* [[Calendars and diaries]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Calendar_002fDiary.html])
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* [[Sending mail]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sending-Mail.html])
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* [[Rmail]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rmail.html])
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* [[Gnus]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Gnus.html])
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* [[Document viewer]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Document-View.html])
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* [[Shell commands withing Emacs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shell.html])
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* [[Emacs server]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html])
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* [[Printing]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Printing.html])
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* [[Sorting]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sorting.html])
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* [[Picture mode]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Picture-Mode.html])
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* [[Editing binary files]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Editing-Binary-Files.html])
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* [[Saving Emacs sessions]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Saving-Emacs-Sessions.html])
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* [[Recursive editing]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Recursive-Edit.html])
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* [[Emulating other text editors]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emulation.html])
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* [[Hyperlinking within Emacs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Hyperlinking.html])
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* [[Games and fun]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Amusements.html])
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* [[Installing additional packages]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Packages.html])
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* [[Customising Emacs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customization.html])
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** [[Customize]] (simple interface) ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Easy-Customization.html])
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* [[Cancelling commands]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Quitting.html])
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* [[If Emacs is malfunctioning]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lossage.html])
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* [[Reporting bugs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bugs.html])
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* [[Contributing to GNU Emacs]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html])
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* [[Getting help from others]] ([https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Service.html])
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[[Category:WikEmacs]]

Latest revision as of 18:05, 22 August 2024

WikEmacs is here to stay. Spread the word!

Basic terminology of typical Emacs GUI Frame

First time visitors can start exploring WikEmacs. We have added lots of useful pages since the launch of WikEmacs.


We need more WikEmacs contributors. You can help the following way.

Note: First of all, please take a minute to look at the WikEmacs guidelines before you start editing.
  • Priority tasks
    • Add content. Please adopt the following approach - I found this on the web 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. You can start by documenting Emacs' support of your favorite programming language.
  • Intermediate tasks
  • Other tasks

Emacs News

The latest stable release of Emacs is Emacs-29.4 released on June 22nd, 2024. The precedent is Emacs-28.2.

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

Explore WikEmacs

To explore WikEmacs 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?

What do you want to accomplish now?

What do you use Emacs for?

How do you involve yourself with the community?

Help build WikEmacs

The following are suggestions for articles to write, along with the page of the GNU Emacs manual which documents this feature. (Note: it's possible that an article for a given topic exists already under a different name. In that case, please ensure that the article includes the link to the manual page, and then remove the topic from this list.)