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The EmacsWiki is dedicated to documenting and discussing EmacsAndXEmacs and EmacsLisp. See the MissionStatement for more.

You can edit this website. There’s a link, Edit this page, at the bottom of this and other pages. Please check SiteMap Discussion before editing this SiteMap page, however.

• HowToNavigate – help using the site (EmacsWiki)
• ElispArea – upload and download EmacsLisp source code
• HowToEdit – how you can contribute to the site
• EmacsWikiAdministrators – handling vandalism and spam on this site
• WikiDownload – how to get copies of the site

Learning About Emacs

• EmacsNewbie – basic concepts, vocabulary, notation used in documentation
• Documentation – Emacs is self-documenting and helpful
• Help – online help from Emacs itself and its users
• Glossary – Emacs terminology
• EmacsNiftyTricks – miscellaneous tips
• RandomPage – pot luck, serendipity

Downloading and Installing Emacs

• Ports – binaries for MS Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
• MsWindows – obtaining and using Emacs for MS Windows
• Building – building Emacs from source code.
• Pretests – downloading Emacs pretests (prerelease versions)

General Use

• Accessibility – how Emacs makes a computer more accessible
• BufferSwitching – switching among different buffers
• Commands – defining and running Emacs commands
• Completion – completing text in the minibuffer or other buffers
• Customize – customizing Emacs
  • DotEmacs – examples of EmacsLisp code to put in your init file
  • Display – display/screen/terminal information (pointer shapes, frames…)
  • Faces – text highlighting, colors, font-lock, syntax-driven highlighting
  • Frames – frames (window-manager windows).
  • Internationalization – natural language support, character sets
  • Keys – customizing key bindings (aka “keyboard shortcuts”)
    • Mouse – using a mouse with Emacs
  • Paths – specifying OS paths used by Emacs
  • Persistence – saving state between Emacs sessions
  • Windows – Emacs windows (panes within a frame)
• Editing – text editing
  • Filling – filling, justifying, wrapping text
  • Indentation – indenting text, including code
  • Parentheses – showing parenthesis matches and mismatches
  • Region – selecting text and acting on it
  • Spelling – spell-checking
  • Templates – using boilerplate text (file headers, templates, forms)
  • Undo – undoing and redoing changes
• Files – files and directories: local, remote, backup
  • Directories – Dired: operating on files and directories (folders)
• HideStuff – hiding parts of a buffer
  • Outline – hiding structural parts: outlining and zooming (folding)
• Modes – Emacs modes not listed separately here
  • Hypermedia – creating and using hypertext: Emacs Info, HTML, wikis
  • Sql – SQL and databases
  • Tables – working with tabular data
  • Tex – TeX and LaTeX stuff
  • XML – XML stuff
• Menus – Emacs menus (menu bar, pop-up)
  • Mouse – using a mouse with Emacs
• Printing – printing files, buffers, regions
• Programming – using Emacs in programming
• Regexp – defining and using regular expressions
• SearchAndReplace - searching and replacing, including regexp search
• Writing – using Emacs and other tools to write

External Programs and Remote Services

• BatchMode – EmacsLisp as a scripting language
• Calculators – math operations
  • Financial – money management and accounting
• Calendar – calendar, diary, task (appointment) reminders
  • Todo – creating and using to-do lists
  • TimeTracking – tracking your time
• Education – tools for educating students
• ExternalUtilities – using external utilities (except for programming
  • Cryptography – encrypting and decrypting files you edit
  • Shell – using a shell
  • Eshell – a shell implemented in EmacsLisp
  • VersionControl – using configuration-control systems (CVS, RCS, SCCS,…)
• Games – playing
• Interface – accessing online utilities
  • ChatClient – chatting
  • Journaling – accessing Web logs (blogs)
• Mail – Emacs mail clients
  • Gnus – an Emacs reader of news and mail
  • MailAddons – mail-handling add-ons (not Gnus-related).
• PersonalInformationManager – PIM functionalities
  • Bbdb – “Big Brother DataBase”: maintaining phone numbers, mail addresses
• ProgrammerUtils – programmer tools, such as code browsers
• Related – Emacs environments run in other programs (browsers, terminal emulators,…)
• RemoteEmacs – running Emacs on a remote host
• WebBrowser – browsing Web files and sites

Programming Emacs: Lisp and C Source Code

• Code – coding with EmacsLisp
  • Debug – debugging EmacsLisp code
• Building – building Emacs from source code
• Patches – patches to Emacs, mostly for C-level extensions
• ExtensionLanguage – extending Emacs with other languages, besides EmacsLisp: Guile, Erlang, Python

Emacs Bugs, Wish List

• EmacsBugs – some outstanding bugs
• WishList

Emacs Community

• EmacsImplementations – some Emacs implementations
• History – Emacs history
• Homepage – EmacsWiki home pages, including yours.
• Humor (or not)

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