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WikEmacs (pronounced wikimacs) collects useful resources for working with GNU Emacs. It is intended as a next generation alternative to the traditional EmacsWiki. You can call it A Community Maintained Emacs Wiki.
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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, OSX and Windows. It supports a variety of programming languages.
Explore this wiki using one of these 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
Automation in Emacs
Configuring Emacs
- Custom for choosing and setting options.
- Scripting your Init File (`(info "(emacs) Init File")') file using Emacs Lisp .
Convenience
Typesetting, Document Markup and Document Creation in Emacs
Emacs supports a wide range of Markup languages to help you in your workflow of document creation.
Communication
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.
Accessibility
- Emacspeak for the visually impaired.
Security and cryptography
- Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) support and integration
Getting Involved
Niche Uses
Popular Culture and Community
- Real Programmers
- Try M-x butterfly on your Emacs right now and unleash its powers.
- Adding Emacs-style key bindings to other programs and operating systems.
- St Ignucius and the Church of Emacs
- Saving the world from vi