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About

Useful resources for working with Gnu Emacs. See also Emacs (Wikipedia).

This wiki is intended as a next generation replacement for Emacswiki

Getting started with Emacs

Installing Emacs
Look and Feel
Emacs for Vim users
Starter Kits
Learning Resources and getting help
Package Managers
Emacs Terminology
- Buffer
- Windows and frames
- Point and mark
- Kill and Yank
- Region
- Fill
- Case-fold
- Narrow and widen
Quitting Emacs: type `C-x C-c` (that's Control-X, Control-C)

Text editing in Emacs

Automation in Emacs

Configuring Emacs

Custom for choosing and setting options.
Scripting your init.el file (formerly .emacs) using Emacs Lisp .

Emacs and Desktop Integration

Typesetting, Document Markup and Document Creation in Emacs

Markdown
org-mode export to HTML, PDF etc
SGML , HTML and XML
TeX, LaTeX, TeXinfo, BibTeX etc.

Emacs as an IDE

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Emacs is called CEDET. See Gentle Introduction to CEDET.

For Literate Programming see Org Babel.

Programming and Scripting Languages

Markup Languages

Compiling

flymake

Debugging

REPLs

Inferior Emacs Lisp Mode (IELM) for interacting with Emacs' own internal Lisp
mozrepl for interacting with an external web browser's internal JavaScript engine
SLIME for interacting with an external Common Lisp or Clojure instance

Version Control

dvc provides a standard interface between Emacs and distributed version control systems
vc provides a standard interface between Emacs and conventional version control systems

bzr can be managed using dvc
Clearcase
CVS can be managed using vc
git can be managed using dvc or magit
Mercurial can be managed using dvc
SVN can be managed using vc
RCS can be managed using vc

Within Emacs, ediff provides sophisticated diff and merge functions. Both vc and dvc integrate well with ediff.

Productivity

Communication

Web browsing and web development

w3 : a pure-Emacs-Lisp text-mode web browser.
w3m-el : The text-mode w3m web browser hosted and enhanced within Emacs, with rudimentary inline image support but no JavaScript.
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.

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:

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 challenged.

Security and cryptography

Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) support and integration

Getting Involved

IRC Channel

Mailing list archives

Browsable source repository

Contributing to Emacs

Reporting bugs
Testers
- Profiling
- Memory Usage
- Reporting Bugs

Developers
- Coding Guidelines
- Copyright Assignment
  - Contributing to Emacs
  - Copyright assignment

Core Developers
- Project Leaders
  - Stefan Monnier
  - Chong Yidong
- Others

Niche Uses

Games and Entertainment

Tetris
Doctor

Humor

History

XEmacs and Gnu Emacs

Popular Culture and Community

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

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 * [[ Remote Editing ]] via FTP, ssh, etc.
 * [[ Emacs server ]] and [[ emacsclient ]]
+* [[ Registers ]]
+* [[ Bookmarks ]]
+* [[ Rectangles ]]
 == Automation in Emacs ==