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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

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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 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
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Other
How do you involve yourself with the community?
Category:Emacs User
Category:Emacs Contributor
Category:WikEmacs Contributor
Other

Configuring Emacs

Convenience

    • Icicles
    • Abbrev and dabbrev
    • Auto-complete and hippie-expand
    • YaSnippet

Web browsing

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.

Niche Uses