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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

• Installing Emacs
• Starter Kits
• Learning Resources
• Package Managers

Text editing in Emacs

• Spell check
• International Users

Input methods

Unicode support

Indian Languages

Tamil

Use of Lohit font is recommeneded for composing in Tamil.

(set-fontset-font
 "fontset-default"
 'tamil "-outline-Lohit Tamil-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1")

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 Languages

• Ada
• antlr
• asm
• awk
• C/C++
• Clojure
• Common Lisp
• CSS
• Emacs Lisp
• Fortran
• Groovy
• Haskell
• HTML
• Icon
• IDL
• Java
• JavaScript and JSON
• make
• Modula2
• OCaml
• Octave
• Pascal and Delphi
• perl
• PHP
• PostScript
• Prolog
• Python
• Ruby
• Scala
• Scheme
• SGML
• shell script
• Simula
• SQL
• tcl
• TeX, LaTeX, TeXinfo, BibTeX etc.
• XML

Productivity

• org-mode
• calc
• calendar
• diary
• Contacts: bbdb

Communication

• Blogging
• Chat
• Email
• Feed reading
• Microblogging
• Usenet news

Web browsing and web development

• w3
• w3m-el
• Launching and interacting with an external browser from emacs
• Using emacs as a browser's external editor

Accessibility

Emacspeak for the visually challenged.

Security and cryptography

• Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) support and integration

Getting Involved

• IRC Channel

• Mailing list archives
  • Emacs users
  • Emacs developers
  • Emacs bugs
  • Emacs sources

• Source Repository
  • Browsable Repo

Emacs Life

• St Ignucius and the Church of Emacs
• Humor
• Saving the world from vi