Emacs

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A community for the timeless and infinitely powerful editor. Want to see what Emacs is capable of?!

Get Emacs

• Windows
• Mac OS X
• GNU/Linux and BSD (Just get it from your distribution's package manager)

Rules

1. Posts should be emacs related
2. Be kind please
3. Yes, we already know: Google results for "emacs" and "vi" link to each other. We good.

Emacs Resources

• Emacs Wiki
• WikEmacs
• Emacs Reference (PDF)
• Learning & Mastering Emacs
• Weekly tips/tricks/etc threads

Emacs Tutorials

• Beginner’s Guide to Emacs
• Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs
• How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Useful Emacs configuration files and distributions

• Better Defaults
• Example configurations

Quick pain-saver tip

• Put the Caps Lock key to better use!

MODERATORS

(add-to-list 'font-lock-extra-managed-props 'display)
(font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode
  `(("^.*?\\( \\)\\(:[[:alnum:]_@#%:]+:\\)$"
     (1 `(face nil
          display (space :align-to (- right ,(length (match-string 2)) 3)))
        prepend))) t)