Emacs

Definition

Note: Copy/Paste from http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/emacs/pointers.html (will clean this up sometimes soon I hope - Daniel K. Schneider 19:39, 2 November 2007 (MET)

Emacs is a text editor, and much more. XEmacs provides a comprehensive enviroment where you can edit source code, or multiple text files, read mail or news, and even edit files remotely using FTP.

There exist many variants: The most popular ones are Xemacs and GNU emacs

Specialized tips

(Some tips regarding formats discussed in this wiki)

ActionScript

Install: actionscript-mode.el written by Pet Tomato. Tested by Daniel K. Schneider with GnuEmacs 21.4.1 under Ubuntu. He provides 2 files:

• actionscript-mode.el
• as-config.el (this is only an option, did not install this)

To install this I did the following:

• Copy the 2 *.el files to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
• Inserted this in my .emacs file:

;; Actionscript stuff
(autoload 'actionscript-mode "actionscript-mode"
  "Major mode for editing ActionScript files." t)

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.as[123]?$" . actionscript-mode))

XML

• See XML Editor for the moment ...

Links

Manuals & Short References

• XEmacs Documentation, all kind of manuals in PDF
• GNU Emacs Reference Card (attention!!! for GNU emacs) [local copy]
• XEMACS Emacs Reference Card (attention format POSTSCRIPT [local copy]
• XEMACS Emacs Reference Card (PDF)
• [dired-refcard.gnu.pdf DIRED Mode Reference Card (PDF)] (just the directory editor for GNU emacs)
• EmacsWiki Good wiki site for both Emacs and Xemacs (multi-lingual)
• A la découverte de GNU Emacs

En français:

• EmacsWiki - français, encore)
• Manuel Gnu Emacs

Customization Links

Configuring the functionalities of XEmacs:

• The very unofficial dotemacs home: best overall site
• Robin S. Socha's XEmacs Settings : well-commented dot file collection and screen shots
• Erik Sundermann's XEmacs Customization Page: good 'starter' .emacs customization page (but a bit old!)
• Emacs keybindings Good (but very technical) document for all Emacsen

FAQ's

• XEmacs FAQ in english
• XEmacs FAQ en fran�ais
• XEmacs FAQ en fran�ais
• XEmacs mailing lists

Tutorials

On the Web you can find many mini-tutorials, there are also book chapters, etc.

• There's the XEmacs tutorial available from the Help Menu under `Basics->Tutorials', or by typing C-h t. To check whether it's available in a non-english language, type C-u C-h t TAB, type the first letters of your preferred language, then type RET.
• Emacs Beginner's Tutorial by J.D. Zawodny @ RootPrompt.org
• XEmacs Tutorial Introduction by Sarah Waterson
• Tutorial - xemacs (good, but Very short)

En fran�ais:

• GNU Emacs: tutorial (en fran�ais)
• Aller plus loin avec GNU Emacs

Specialized topics

Emacs programming

• Emacs Lisp information (includes pointers to general emacs resources too)

(Some) Emacs Modes

• Html helper mode
• The Emacs Package "hm--html-menus", a mode that helps editing html pages.
• PSGML Mode home page. SEE the XML page for more pointers on PSGML !!
• Using Emacs for XML documents, good IBM developerWorks article (installation, configuration, external validator)
• Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDE)

Tools / Software

• XEmacs Download Locations

Other Links

• x and emacsen stuff (some links to tips and guides, many dead links )
• XEmacs Home Page.