Changeset View
Changeset View
Standalone View
Standalone View
editors/emacs/pkg-descr
GNU Emacs is a self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time | GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. At its | ||||
display editor. | core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming | ||||
language with extensions to support text editing. | |||||
Users new to Emacs will be able to use basic features fairly rapidly | The features of GNU Emacs include: | ||||
by studying the tutorial and using the self-documentation features. | - content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file | ||||
Emacs also has an extensive interactive manual browser. It is easily | types | ||||
extensible since its editing commands are written in Lisp. | - complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users | ||||
- full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts | |||||
- powerful customizability, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical | |||||
interface | |||||
- a vast ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a | |||||
project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, | |||||
even a psychotherapist, and more | |||||
- a packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. | |||||
GNU Emacs's many special packages handle mail reading (RMail) and | WWW: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ | ||||
sending (Mail), outline editing (Outline), compiling (Compile), | |||||
running subshells within Emacs windows (Shell), running a Lisp | |||||
read-eval-print loop (Lisp-Interaction-Mode), automated psychotherapy | |||||
(Doctor :-) and many more. | |||||
Canna support is contributed by Yuji TAKANO (takachan@running-dog.net). | |||||
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ |