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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
• 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 – tips you might not have found otherwise.
• RandomPage – for serendipitous visitors

Downloading and Installing Emacs:

• Ports – binaries for MS Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and the free BSDs
• W32 – obtaining and using Emacs for MS Windows
• Building – building Emacs from source code.

General Use:

• Accessibility – how Emacs can make a computer more accessible; health issues
• Bookmarking – setting persistent locations and returning to them
• BufferSwitching – switching among different buffers
• Commands – invoking and defining Emacs commands, ‘M-x’
• Completion – completing text in the minibuffer or other buffers
• Customize – customizing Emacs generally and with the “easy customizing” feature, Customize
  • DotEmacs – EmacsLisp code to put in your init file (~/.emacs or _emacs).
  • 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 (“keyboard shortcuts”)
    • Mouse – mouse bindings and different uses of the mouse
  • Paths – how to specify OS paths in Emacs
  • Persistence – saving state between Emacs sessions
  • Windows – Emacs windows (panes within a frame)
• Editing – miscellaneous information about text editing
  • Alignment – align text, columns, comments or other programming-language constructs
  • Comments – manipulating and using code comments
  • Filling – paragraph filling, justification, and line wrapping text
  • Indentation – indenting text, including source code
  • Parentheses – showing parenthesis matches and mismatches
  • Region – selecting a region of text and acting on it (copy, cut, paste, …)
  • Spelling – spell-checking
  • Templates – using canned text (file headers, templates, forms)
  • Undo – undoing, redoing and finding changes
• Files – files and directories: local, remote, backup
  • Directories – Dired and operating on files and directories (folders)
• HideStuff – hiding parts of a buffer
  • Outline – hiding structural parts of text: outlining and folding
• Modes – references, tips, documentation, and extensions for all modes
  • Hypermedia – creating and using hypertext: Emacs Info, HTML, wikis
    • XML – XML technologies
  • Sql – SQL and databases
  • Tables – working with tabular data
  • Tex – TeX and LaTeX stuff
  • ESS – Emacs Speaks Statistics
• Menus – Emacs menus, (menu bar and popup)
• Printing – printing files, buffers, the region …
• Programming – using Emacs for programming
• Regexp – defining and using regular expressions
• SearchAndReplace - searching and replacing text, including regexp search
• Writing – using Emacs and other tools to write text

External Programs and Remote Services:

• ArtificialIntelligence – Emacs-based AI and expert systems.
• Calculators – math operations
  • Financial – money management and accounting
• Calendar – calendar, diary, task (appointment) reminders
  • Todo – maintaining to-do lists
  • TimeTracking – tracking your time spent
• Education – learn something new, use a dictionary, or grade students
• Emulation – emulating environments of other systems and software in Emacs
• ExternalUtilities – using external utilities for other than programming
  • Cryptography – encrypt and decrypt files you edit
  • Shell – interact with a shell inside Emacs
  • Eshell – a shell implemented in EmacsLisp
  • VersionControl – using configuration-control (source-control) systems in Emacs (CVS, RCS, SCCS,…)
• Games – play in Emacs
• Interface – accessing online utilities
  • ChatClient – using Emacs for chatting
  • Journaling – Emacs interfaces to blogs
• Mail – reading email in Emacs
  • Gnus – an Emacs reader of news and mail
  • MailAddons – mail-handling add-ons (not Gnus-related).
  • View Mail – VM is an mail package that is an alternative to Rmail
• PersonalInformationManager – PIM functionalities
  • Bbdb – “Big Brother DataBase”: maintaining phone numbers, mail addresses
• ProgrammerUtils – tools for programmers (e.g. 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 in Lisp and C Source Code:

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

Emacs Bugs, Wish List:

• EmacsBugs – how to report bugs and where to find a list of already reported bugs
• WishList – “Emacs isn’t perfect already?”

Emacs Community:

• EmacsImplementations – a list of Emacsen and their impersonators
• History – history of Emacs
• Homepage – home pages of Emacs friends, including you
• Humor – when some Emacs users are not customizing Emacs, they make funnies

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