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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 with Emacs

Text editing in Emacs

Automation in Emacs

Configuring Emacs

Emacs and Desktop Integration

Typesetting, Document Markup and Document Creation in Emacs

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 and Scripting Languages

Markup Languages

Compiling

Debugging

REPLs

  • Inferior Emacs Lisp Mode (IELM) for interacting with Emacs' own internal Lisp
  • mozrepl for interacting with an external web browser's internal JavaScript engine
  • SLIME for interacting with an external Common Lisp or Clojure instance

Version Control

  • dvc provides a standard interface between Emacs and distributed version control systems
  • vc provides a standard interface between Emacs and conventional version control systems


Within Emacs, ediff provides sophisticated diff and merge functions. Both vc and dvc integrate well with ediff.

Productivity

Communication

Web browsing and web development

  • w3 : a pure-Emacs-Lisp text-mode web browser.
  • w3m-el : The text-mode w3m web browser hosted and enhanced within Emacs, with rudimentary inline image support.
  • 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.

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

Security and cryptography

Getting Involved

  • IRC Channel

Contributing to Emacs

  • Reporting bugs
  • Testers
    • Profiling
    • Memory Usage
    • Reporting Bugs
  • Core Developers
    • Project Leaders
      • Stefan Monnier
      • Chong Yidong
    • Others

Niche Uses

Games and Entertainment

  • Tetris
  • Doctor
  • Humor

History

  • XEmacs and Gnu Emacs

Popular Culture and Community

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