Questions tagged [emacs]

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor. Begun in the mid-1970s as TECO, it was re-written using C and Emacs Lisp to provide portability and an extendable interface. It continues to be actively developed today.

Emacs provides context-sensitive editing modes with syntax coloring, is self documenting, has full Unicode support and extensions to do most anything. Die-hard Emacs users do most everything from within Emacs: write, compile, run and debug code; read/compose email; browse the web; do project planning etc.

Useful Links

• A paper by RMS describing the design of Emacs
• The Emacs Wiki, a collaborative wiki for extensions to Emacs
• Wikipedia's Emacs page
• A tour of Emacs
• Emacs FAQ
• History of Emacs and GPL
• GNU Emacs Manual, 16th Edition, v. 22
• An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

Wisdom from the stack

• Is it worth investing time in learning to use emacs?
• How to quickly get started at using and learning Emacs
• Emacs without lisp
• Stack Overflow emacs-lisp and emacs tags