Basic Emacs
EMACS - "Editing Macros" originally created in 1975 by Richard
Stallman as a set of macros for the now long defunct TECO editor. It became
the first major piece of GPL software in the Free Software
Movement. Since then
emacs has become a *FREE*, open source, cross platform, extensible text
editor and multipurpose integrated development environment (ide). Emacs
supports almost every major programming technology and utility. Emacs
can be used inside of a command shell or as a GUI application. Emacs has
literally hundreds of commands, but you only need a few ( even less for the GUI
version ) to get a tremendous amount of work done.
Quick Start
- my very short guide for learning Emacs.
Getting Emacs
GNU Emacs Home Page (
if you use a variant of unix see your os distro's site for binary versions)
GNU Emacs For
Microsoft Windows
GNU Emacs For The Macintosh
OS
Xemacs Home Page ( an
alternative to GNU emacs, also *FREE* and open source )
Emacs Extensions
Emacs Wiki ( a whole web
site of extensions and supplemental emacs packages )
Emacs Lisp List
( Many extension packages for emacs )
Emacs Code Browser ( a
gui file and code explorer that runs inside of emacs )
CUA mode ( gives emacs "windows"
style keybindings and other customizations)
JDEE ( an extension that
adds to the already good support for programming in Java )
Making Extensions
Programming in Emacs Lisp
( *FREE*, online book, everything you need to know about
customizing/extending emacs )
GNU Emacs
Lisp Reference Manual
Pymacs (
use python to extend emacs instead of lisp )
Emacs Clones That Fit On A Floppy
Jassapa Microemacs
(200k download, shell version, gui version, runs on *nix and windows)
Jed
(815K download, shell version, gui version, runs on *nix, vms, windows)
Jove
(422K download, not actively maintained )
NotGNU
(230k download, shell version, gui vesion, runs on linux and windows)
Qemacs
(800k download compiles to 200k binary, runs on *nix and in the shell)
Zile
(263k download, shell version, runs on posix unix)
Recommended Books
"Learning GNU Emacs" ISBN: 1565921526.
To get the cheapest price among the various online book sellers run a search
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