Cruise along the learning curve for Emacs text editing with these basic commands. Emacs is a LISP interpreter that functions as a text editor in Linux, distributed by the Free Software Association ...

Hmmm, my .emacs doesn’t have huge amounts of look and feel stuff in it. It has some stuff that I added so it could deal with oddball languages like Forth and PLM.

No one has said anything about how the forthcoming Emacs.Net tool will work with Microsoft’s PowerShell, the Unix-like command-line interface and scripting shell that Microsoft is building into ...

Emacs greets newcomers with a buffer—a canvas waiting for text. Navigation, though not modal like Vim, is keyboard-centric, with C-p, C-n, C-b, and C-f moving the cursor in familiar directions.

The message posted Friday evening on emacs-devel by Richard Stallman was cryptic: “Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.” Just like ...