EmacsWiki: Site Map

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

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

How to use this site

• HowToNavigate – how to find what you’re looking for
• HowToEdit – how you can contribute to the site
• ElispArea – upload and download EmacsLisp source code
• Appearance – how to change the way the site appears to you
• WikiDownload – how to get copies of the site
• EmacsWikiAdministrators – handling vandalism and spam on this site

Learning About Emacs

• GNU Emacs Homepage official Emacs releases and documentation here.
• EmacsNewbie – basic concepts, vocabulary, notation used in documentation
• Documentation – learn why Emacs is called the self-documenting text editor.
• Help – online help from Emacs itself and its users
• Learning Emacs – there are many resources ways to learn Emacs, and lots of aids to learning
• Learn Emacs Lisp – EmacsLisp is the heart and soul of Emacs.
• DotEmacs – writing an init file to run EmacsLisp code at startup.
• Glossary – Emacs terminology
• Nifty Tricks – some extra tips
• RandomPage – for serendipitous visitors
• Emacs Communities – connect with other people who use Emacs

Emacs Use In-Depth

• 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’
• Comparing – Comparing, diffing and merging text, including code
• Completion – completing text in the minibuffer or otherbuffers
• Display – how emacs displays information (frames, faces, fonts…)
  • Faces – text appearance: highlighting, colors, font-lock, syntax-driven highlighting
  • Frames – frames (what the OS would usually call “windows”)
  • Windows – Emacs windows (panes within a frame or a text terminal)
• Editing – general information about text editing, including
  • Alignment – aligning text, columns, comments or other programming-language constructs
  • Indentation – indenting text, including source code
  • Comments – manipulating and using code comments
  • Filling – paragraph filling, justification, and line wrapping text
  • Parentheses – showing parenthesis matches and mismatches
  • Region – selecting a region of text to act on it (copy, cut, paste, …)
  • Spelling – spell-checking
  • Templates – using boilerplate text and snippets (file headers, templates, forms)
  • Undo – undoing, redoing and finding changes
• Files – files and directories: local, remote, backup. (see also Directories and DiredMode)
• HideStuff – hiding parts of a buffer, including outlining and folding
• Internationalization – natural language support, character sets
• Keys – understanding and customizing key bindings (“hotkeys”, aka.“keyboard shortcuts”)
• Mouse – mouse bindings and different uses of the mouse
• Modes – various editing modes provided in Emacs
  • ESS – Emacs Speaks Statistics: R, Julia, Stata, S, SAS
  • Hypermedia – creating and using hypertext: HTML, Markdown, Emacs Info, wikis
  • Tables – working with tabular data
  • Tex – TeX and LaTeX editing
  • Programming Modes programming modes (C-family, Python, Haskell, COBOL, you name it!)
  • XML – XML technologies
• Menus – Emacs menus, (menu bar and popup)
• Paths – how to specify OS paths in Emacs
• Persistence – saving state between Emacs sessions
• Printing – printing files, buffers, the region …
• Project Organization – navigating, visualizing, managing software projects
• Programming – using Emacs as a development environment
• Regexp – defining and using regular expressions
• SearchAndReplace - searching and replacing text, including regexp search
• Writing – using Emacs as a prose text editor

Applications within Emacs

• ArtificialIntelligence – Emacs-based AI and expert systems.
• Calculators – math operations
  • Financial – money management and accounting
• Calendar – calendar, diary, task and appointment reminders
  • Todo – maintaining to-do lists
  • TimeTracking – tracking your time spent
• Cryptography – encrypt and decrypt files you edit
• Databases – databases in Emacs
• Education – learn something new, use a dictionary, or grade students
• Emulation – emulating environments of other systems and software in Emacs
• ExternalUtilities – using external utilities other than programming
• Games – play in Emacs
• Gopher – browsing Gopher sites
• Interface – accessing web services
  • 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
  • WanderLust – another Emacs news and mail reader
  • mu4e – another Emacs based mail program.
• 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
• Shell – interact with a shell inside Emacs, including eshell, a cross-platform shell implemented in EmacsLisp
• VersionControl – using version-control systems in Emacs (Git, Mercurial, SVN…)
• WebBrowser – browsing Web files and sites

Customizing Emacs

• Customize – customizing Emacs with the “easy customizing” feature ‘Customize’
• DotEmacs – writing an init file to run EmacsLisp code at startup.
• Packages – Emacs package management
• Emacs on Windows – configuring Emacs for MS Windows
• Starter Kits – get Emacs going quickly with an existing custom configuration.

Programming Emacs in Lisp and C

• 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

Installing Custom Emacs Builds

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

Emacs Bugs

• EmacsBugs – how to report bugs and where to find a list of those already reported
• WishList – “Emacs isn’t perfect already?”
• Proposals – Formal proposals for improvements to Emacs.

Other Emacs-related information

• EmacsImplementations – a list of Emacsen and their impersonators
• History – history of Emacs
• ResearchAboutEmacs –– academic, published research about Emacs
• Humor – what’s funny about Emacs and Emacs users?

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