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WikEmacs (pronounced wiki-macs) collects useful resources for working with GNU Emacs. Think of it as a 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 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 WikEmacs Contributors. You can help the following way.

• Priority tasks
  • Migrate content from 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 Popular Packages or Native Packages.
  • Add more content to Special:ShortPages
  • Document or add more Third Party Packages

• 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 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

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?

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Expert
  • Are you a maintainer of a 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 Third Party Packages? Consider writing about what it is and how to use it.
• Vim User
• Other

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
• Category:Emacs Contributor
• Category:WikEmacs Contributor
• Other