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WikEmacs (pronounced wikimacs) collects useful resources for working with GNU Emacs. You can call it A Community Maintained Emacs 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.
WikEmacs News
We need more WikEmacs Contributors. You can help the following way.
- Add more content to Special:ShortPages
- Can you improve any of these Workflows. Can you add more content to it?
- Add more members to various Special:Categories
- May be categorize one of these pages Special:UncategorizedPages
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.
Please use one of the following trails.
- What is your comfort level with Emacs?
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Expert
- 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
Configuring Emacs
- Custom for choosing and setting options.
- Scripting your Init File (`(info "(emacs) Init File")') file using Emacs Lisp .
Convenience
- Icicles
- Abbrev and dabbrev
- Auto-complete and hippie-expand
- YaSnippet
Web browsing
- 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.
See also Workflow:Browsing
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.