I wanted to learn emacs and discovered that it doesn't work well in console mode because of my swedish keyboard.The problem is with keys like \\. To use backslash in a key combination, say M-\\, I ...

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned … ...

Even the Midnight Commander (mc) file manager supports Emacs-style command-line editing as well as Emacs-like and vi-like key bindings in its file viewer. Steve R. Hastings first used UNIX on actual ...