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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 browse existing content #Explore this wiki. We have added lots of useful pages since the launch of this Wiki. 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.

• • Use WikEmacs as your paste bin or gist. Look at your Emacs config file right now and save (thereby share) your very valuable customization with others. See Emacs Lisp, Mediawiki.el or Ido for general style. Also see Template:NewPage.

• • 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
  • Improve any of these Workflows. Can you add more content to it?
• 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

The best way to make the most of this wiki is this:

• 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?
  • Have you developed any Third Party Packages?
• 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