Emacs is a text editor which is far more powerful than most of its users realize. It can be customized extensively to suit one's needs and extended to do virtually anything. Although Emacs can seem intimidating to beginners, the investment of learning it pays for itself many times over in increased productivity. These guides are designed to give you a flavor of the capabilities of Emacs.
This page is now frozen. See http://web.psung.name/emacs/ for the latest version of the slides below.
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| Installing Emacs | HTML | |
| An Introduction to Emacs | HTML | ODP, PDF |
| Customizing Emacs | ODP, PDF | |
| Extending Emacs | ODP, PDF |
You can now read The Guided Tour of Emacs, based on my Introduction to Emacs, at gnu.org.
Useful links: Emacs reference card, Emacs manual online, GNU Emacs, XEmacs
These guides are based on material from a class I taught in January 2007 during MIT's Independent Activities Period. Special thanks to Piaw Na and Arthur Gleckler for their help. Read the original announcement for this class.
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this work under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts; or the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.