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the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor.

The GNU Operating System

Emacs is probably best described as a thermonuclear text editor.

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
  • http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
  • http://www.aisee.com/graph_of_the_month/emacs.htm
    • visual history of emacsen
• http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html
  • some interesting history-titbits
  • 'XEmacs should drop out of the race'
  • Emacs caught up and overtook XEmacs
    
  
  
• Why I love Emacs
  
  
• Ask YC: Why is emacs a great editor?
  

Emacs: because grownups like having choices.[1]

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
• The Craft of Text Editing --or-- Emacs for the Modern World

• http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=emacs
  • SLIME
    
  • Richard M. Stallman Speech / Church of Emacs
    • Church of emacs
  • minor emacs wizardry: keyboad macros
    
  • Debugging Backwards in Time

• http://www.emacswiki.org/

• http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/07/learn-emacs-in-ten-years
• http://bettercoding.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/emacs-still-relevant/

• http://hillview.1on.de/categories/2-Emacs

Introductions

• A Guided Tour of Emacs - The many faces of Emacs
• Switching to Emacs! (from Textmate)
• Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours - online
• The Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers
• emacs? emacs.

Emacs on Windows

• http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/windows.html#Installing Emacs
• Emacs Hack #1: Install Emacs on Windows
  
• http://blog.arithm.com/2008/06/21/set-emacs-home-directory-in-vista/
  • setx HOME "%USERPROFILE%" (setx)

Linuxtools On Windows

• http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/ - Automatic download and installation of the newest binary and documentation gnuwin32 packages.
  
  
• Using grep from Within Emacs
• http://thebogles.com/blog/2008/05/customizing-emacs-grep-find-to-ignore-subversion-files/
• http://betterthangrep.com/ - use ack instead of grep
  • ack-modes
    • http://www.rooijan.za.net/?q=node/530
    • http://repo.or.cz/w/ShellArchive.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=ack.el
    • http://nschum.de/src/emacs/full-ack/

Distros - Emacsen

• GNU Emacs
  • Windows-version via FTP
• NTEmacs
  • This project provides the latest binary builds of the Emacs CVS repository for Win32. It is not an official distribution of Emacs, and neither does it come with any support. Long live Emacs!
  • direct donwloads
  • NT Emacs Installation - step by step instructions
• XEmacs
  • XEmacs on Windows (InnoSetup)
• EmacsW32
• http://ergoemacs.org/

Emacs on a (USB) stick

• http://pigpog.com/2007/10/22/portable-emacs-onna-stick/

• What are the differences between the various MS Windows emacsen?

• ELPA Emacs Lisp Package Archive

Tutorials

• http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html
• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
• http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/doc/emacs/
• http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/emacs.html
• Emacs IDE for Python
• http://www.thomas-guettler.de/vortraege/emacs/einfuehrung.html

Tipps'n'tricks

XEmacs

• http://www.xemacs.org/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs

Between 1987 and 1993 significant delays occurred in bringing out a new version of GNU Emacs.

Tutorials

• http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~weide/sce/reference/xemacs/contents.html from 1998...
• http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/ews/software/tutorial/xemacs.html
  
• http://www.control-escape.com/linux/xemacs.html
  
• XEmacs reference card

Emacs vs. XEmacs

New features in either editor usually show up in the other sooner or later. Furthermore, many developers contribute to both projects;[2]

• http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/195
• http://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_software/srt_public_context/WebDocs/XEmacs.html
• http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
  • http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html
• http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_vs_xemacs.html

• http://pasquinades.blogspot.com/2006/05/making-emacs-work-for-you.html

Emacs vs. Vi

• EmacsVsVi

Elisp - Emacs Lisp

• EmacsLisp

Fun

• http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/religion/

other interesting editors

• Zile - Zile is lossy Emacs
• http://www.e-texteditor.com/ - Windows-version of textmate for OS X
• (ap)Proximated (x)Emacs Powered by Python

of mice and keys

• Mom, I think I'm a Cyborg --Keyboards are good. Mice are dumb.
  • via http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/08/1954229
  
  
• http://www.davesquared.net/2008/02/emacs-key-bindings-everywhere.html
  • http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XKeymacs
  • http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html
  
  
• http://sachachua.com/blog/2010/10/emacs-keypresses-and-why-keyboard-combinations-arent-that-scary/

Versions

23

• http://garethrees.org/2009/08/19/emacs23/
• http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs23_features.html