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Consult Mediawiki User's Guide for contributing to this wiki. Apparently there is a Mediawiki.el client. Does anyone have any experience with it?

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
• Look and Feel
• Starter Kits
• Learning Resources
• Package Managers

Text editing in Emacs

• Spell check
• International Users

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
• Visual Basic
• TeX, LaTeX, TeXinfo, BibTeX etc.
• XML

Version Control

• dvc
• magit
• vc

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

• Browsable source repository

Niche Uses

• Statistics

Emacs Life

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