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WikEmacs (pronounced wiki-macs) collects useful resources for working with GNU Emacs. Think of it as a next generation, better structured and improved Emacs Wiki .

Basic terminology of typical Emacs GUI Frame

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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.

Note: First of all, please take a minute to look at the WikEmacs:Guidelines before you start editing.

• 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 Built-in 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-24.

Emacs is available on all popular Operating Systems including GNU/Linux, BSD, 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?

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Expert
  • Are you a maintainer of a Built-in Package? If you don't find information about your package, please add it. No one else is better than you 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
• Entertainment (photos, music)
• Other

How do you involve yourself with the community?

• Emacs User
• Emacs Contributor
• WikEmacs Contributor
• Other