2. Emacs

Emacs stands for Editor MACroS, although opponents suggest acronyms such as Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping. (See also the etc/JOKES file amongst your favorite Emacs implementation to see others...) The original EMACS was written as TECO macros ; modern versions are written with C as the main engine, with extensions in LISP.

• GNU Emacs

• Wikipedia on Emacs

• XEmacs, a near-clone of GNU Emacs

• Wikipedia on XEmacs

• Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp (O'Reilly Nutshell)

• Architecting XEmacs - Lots of XEmacs-related links

• The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World

  Once published by Springer Verlag, now available on the Web...

• Emacs Implementations and Literature

• Multics Emacs History/Design/Implementation

• Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop

  Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides complete eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating environments. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and electronic messaging into the audio desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local and remote information with a consistent and well-integrated user interface.

• ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics

• GNUS - Emacs reads news

• Speedbar

• EIEIO - Enhanced Integration of Emacs Interpreted Objects

  A sort of CLOS/CORBA for Emacs...

• SQL Mode

• The Insidious Big Brother Database (jwz)

• Google search for +GNU +Emacs

• Lisp Engine Changes

  This page documents the sorts of changes needed to transform XEmacs to use Common Lisp.

• Implementation of a Lisp Engine Replacement

  This web page documents the tasks that would be required in order to replace Emacs Lisp in XEmacs. Similar tasks would, no doubt, hold true for GNU Emacs.

• IDLWAVE - editing and shell modes for GNU Emacs for IDL

• GNU Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95/98

• EUDC : An Emacs Client to Directory Servers

• IMAP support for Emacs and Gnus

• Emacs Timeline

• Ongoing efforts are taking place to integrate other languages than ELisp with Emacs, notably:

  • Guile Emacs - a variant of GNU Emacs that integrates in the Guile Scheme extension language.

    Guile and ELisp coexist simultaneously in this implementation.

  • Guile-based Emacs - converting GNU Emacs to use Guile Scheme instead of ELisp.

    Support for ELisp will come via translation and/or emulation; there is no integrated ELisp "engine" in the system.

  • Perlmacs

    Perlmacs is a program based on GNU Emacs with the Perl interpreter linked in.

• Emacs Web Ring on Yahoo

• Why I became an Emacs user Or, My long arduous journey to the One True Editor

• table.el

  Table.el is an Emacs Lisp package that extends Emacs and provides text based table creation and editing feature. With this package Emacs is capable of editing tables that are embedded inside a document, the feature similar to the ones seen in modern WYSIWYG word processors.

  It uses the commonly used SGML CALS table system.

• EmacsWiki.org

• XEmacs - TNG

• Using w3m inside Emacs

• Emacs: WishList

• ilisp

  A comprehensive Emacs mode for managing inferior Lisp modes for Common Lisp, Scheme, and other Lisp-based languages

• SLIME - Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs

  Intended as a better mode than ilisp for Common Lisp

• Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X

• Effective Emacs

  An article (well, a blog "rant") on how to use Emacs more effectively. An excellent set of tips...

• I did a blog entry on EmacsConf 2019, a virtual conference held in (duh) 2019, hosting, via sharing of videos, a huge set of speakers speaking on all sorts of Emacs-related topics.

  A particularly useful aspect was that participants collected tidbits of information, show notes, comments, and such, in an EmacsConf EtherPad , which represented a fantastically useful set of information. I look at comments posted on news sites with considerable embarrassment and disgust, as comment areas seem to rapidly devolve to become cesspools of ill will. In contrast, the EmacsConf EtherPad was collecting, during the conference day, links and comments by interested and friendly parties that I considered to be absolute gold. When at conferences, I often spend sessions grabbing notes and searching for related material for future reference. The EtherPad allowed such efforts to be usefully shared across the set of participants.