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Basic terminology of typical Emacs GUI Frame

First time visitors can start exploring WikEmacs. We have added lots of useful pages since the launch of WikEmacs.

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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
  • Add content. Please adopt the following approach - I found this on the web 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. You can start by documenting Emacs' support of your favorite programming language.
• Intermediate tasks
  • Provide tutorials or content for the popular packages or built-in packages.
  • Add more content to short pages.
  • Document or add more third party packages.
• Other tasks
  • Copy edit recent changes or be a moral police.
  • Add more members to various categories.
  • Categorize one of these pages uncategorized pages.
  • Follow the RSS feed to watch edits, new users and help fighting vandalism (fortunately quite low).

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Emacs News

The latest stable release of Emacs is Emacs-29.1 released on July 30th, 2023. The precedent is Emacs-28.1.

Emacs is available on all popular operating systems including BSD, GNU/Linux, 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 can write about your package as well as you.
  • Have you developed any Third Party Packages? Consider writing about what it is and how to use it.
• Vim User

What do you want to accomplish now?

• Install Or Upgrade
• Customize Emacs
• Tweak Key Bindings
• Learn more Emacs (Tutorials)
• Learn Emacs Lisp

What do you use Emacs for?

• Text Editing
• Programming
• Document authoring
• Getting Organized
• Emailing
• Chatting
• Blogging
• Browsing
• Entertainment
• Other

How do you involve yourself with the community?

• Emacs User
• Emacs Contributor
• WikEmacs Contributor
• Financial Supporter
• Other

Help build WikEmacs

The following are suggestions for articles to write, along with the page of the GNU Emacs manual which documents this feature. (Note: it's possible that an article for a given topic exists already under a different name. In that case, please ensure that the article includes the link to the manual page, and then remove the topic from this list.)

• Command-line startup options ([1] and [2])
• Built-in help ([3])
• Registers ([4])
• Search for text in a buffer ([5])
• Fixing typos ([6])
• Keyboard macros ([7])
• Windows within a frame ([8])
• Frames ([9])
• International character sets ([10])
• Indentation ([11])
• Editing source code ([12])
• Building software ([13])
• Maintaining source code repositories ([14])
• Abbrevs ([15])
• Dired ([16])
• Calendars and diaries ([17])
• Sending mail ([18])
• Rmail ([19])
• Gnus ([20])
• Document viewer ([21])
• Shell commands withing Emacs ([22])
• Emacs server ([23])
• Printing ([24])
• Sorting ([25])
• Picture mode ([26])
• Editing binary files ([27])
• Saving Emacs sessions ([28])
• Recursive editing ([29])
• Emulating other text editors ([30])
• Hyperlinking within Emacs ([31])
• Games and fun ([32])
• Installing additional packages ([33])
• Customising Emacs ([34])
  • Customize (simple interface) ([35])
• Cancelling commands ([36])
• If Emacs is malfunctioning ([37])
• Reporting bugs ([38])
• Contributing to GNU Emacs ([39])
• Getting help from others ([40])