WikEmacs:Guidelines

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General

• Articles should be geared toward the current and development versions of Emacs, 23 and 24 at time of writing. References to older Emacs releases should generally be avoided.
• Articles should not reproduce documentation already available from another source. Many packages and extensions are well-documented on their own project sites; and Emacs itself includes extensive documentation. Link to official documentation where possible.
• Comments and questions belong on the Discussion pages, not in articles themselves. Always sign your comments using ~~~~. This expands to your username (if logged in) and adds a timestamp. Unsigned comments make the discussion hard to follow.
• Extensions and packages will not be hosted here. If you are looking for a place to host your extension try GitHub or one of the other many hosting / source control platforms out there!

Templates

There are templates defined for referencing variables, function, command, keys, manual etc. Use them for uniform experience. See Special:UncategorizedTemplates.

Some examples:

What it looks like	What you type
M-x apropos	{{Command|apropos}}
search-forward	{{Function|search-forward}}
[C-x C-c]	{{Keys|C-x C-c}}
[C-x C-f] (find-file) || {{KeyBinding|C-x C-f|find-file}}
Major Modes (`(info "(emacs) Major Modes")')	{{Manual|emacs|Major-Modes|Major Modes}}

Categories

There are special categories defined for Operating system, Emacs releases, Programming languages etc. Use these when possible or introduce new ones as required. See Special:Categories.