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GNU Emacs Manual for Version 21
GNU Emacs is much more than a simple word processor. Over the years it has expanded into an entire work flow environment. Programmers will be impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual word processor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments! And when you tire of all the work you can accomplish with it, there are games to play. Features
* Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.
* Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles for GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows/DOS and VMS systems.
* Support for typing and displaying in 21 non-English languages, including Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Vietnamese and all Western European languages.
* Creates Postscript output from plain text files and has special editing modes for LaTeX and TeX
* Compile and debug from inside Emacs
* Maintain program ChangeLogs
* Extensive file merge and diff functions
* Directory flag, move and delete files and sub-directories recursively.
* Run shell commands from inside Emacs, or even use Emacs as a shell itself (Eshell)
* Set up tag tables
* Version control management for release and beta versions, with CVS and RCS integration and much more! This book picks up where the introductory on-line tutorial included with Emacs ends. It explains the full range of Emacs' power and contains reference material useful to expert users. Appendixes with specific material for MacIntosh and Microsoft OS users are included.
* Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.
* Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles for GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows/DOS and VMS systems.
* Support for typing and displaying in 21 non-English languages, including Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Vietnamese and all Western European languages.
* Creates Postscript output from plain text files and has special editing modes for LaTeX and TeX
* Compile and debug from inside Emacs
* Maintain program ChangeLogs
* Extensive file merge and diff functions
* Directory flag, move and delete files and sub-directories recursively.
* Run shell commands from inside Emacs, or even use Emacs as a shell itself (Eshell)
* Set up tag tables
* Version control management for release and beta versions, with CVS and RCS integration and much more! This book picks up where the introductory on-line tutorial included with Emacs ends. It explains the full range of Emacs' power and contains reference material useful to expert users. Appendixes with specific material for MacIntosh and Microsoft OS users are included.
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First published October 1, 1993
About the author
Richard M. Stallman
29 books111 followersRichard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
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The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
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October 19, 2012
An amazing book for an amazing application. I use Emacs all day, every day, and this book pretty much contains every trick you'd ever want to know (aside from the myriad modules available for Emacs, many of which in turn justify their own manuals). It took me a while before I actually bought a copy and it's been one of those purchases that, every time I pick it up, I think "what on Earth took me so long??"
If you're an Emacs user, you should have this book. If you are not, you should be; and then get this book.
If you're an Emacs user, you should have this book. If you are not, you should be; and then get this book.
February 28, 2011
I basically read this cover-to-cover as part of my effort to make rigorous one of those corners of software engineering that still remains voodoo: writing and maintaining Makefiles. Mission accomplished!
January 9, 2008
I probably should have given this book a five star rating due to size of accomplishment and scope of the GNU Emacs project. However, I downgraded a star for accessibility. You really need to be a hardcore UNIX geek to understand the minutia offered herein. I've used Emacs daily for over 10 years for writing, programming, and just about every function imaginable on a computer. The details of the manual are aimed at people with such a background more so than the initiate interested in learning text editing. That said, this book is an indispensable resource for hardcore Emacs users as a reference manual and a piece of computer history. For new or intermediate users I would recommend reading a more gentle introduction such as the O'Reilly Learning GNU Emacs book; work your way up to the unique information the manual has to offer. BTW, the manual is available free online in its entirety at The Free Software Foundation as well as an interactive version inside Emacs itself (C-h r).
October 5, 2023
This is THE GNU Emacs Manual.
This book was issued to me while working as a consultant for Northern Telecom (Nortel.) They standardized on this editor, as it was the most efficient for their environment. The above description of the back cover pretty much tells it all. Mine is an earlier edition but the picture is still the same. The book comes with a Lay Flat Binding. There is a Short Content and a several-page Table of Contents. Also, the GNU Manifesto, Glossary, Key (Character) Index, Command and Function Index, Variable Index, and Concept Index. You seldom need to go outside this reference Manual.
This book was issued to me while working as a consultant for Northern Telecom (Nortel.) They standardized on this editor, as it was the most efficient for their environment. The above description of the back cover pretty much tells it all. Mine is an earlier edition but the picture is still the same. The book comes with a Lay Flat Binding. There is a Short Content and a several-page Table of Contents. Also, the GNU Manifesto, Glossary, Key (Character) Index, Command and Function Index, Variable Index, and Concept Index. You seldom need to go outside this reference Manual.
June 22, 2010
This is possibly the best manual for any word processor, ever.
June 21, 2015
Comprehensive and clear, this is the manual I turn back to when I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing with emacs. It has dated but none-the-less it still feels authoritative.
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