Questions tagged [emacs]

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor. Begun in the mid-1970s as TECO, it was re-written using C and Emacs Lisp to provide portability and an extendable interface. It continues to be actively developed today.

Emacs provides context-sensitive editing modes with syntax coloring, is self documenting, has full Unicode support and extensions to do most anything. Die-hard Emacs users do most everything from within Emacs: write code, compile, run, debug, read/compose email, browse the web, do project planning, etc.

For writing TeX and friends files there is a auctex. Also org-mode has support for embedded LaTeX and can export to LaTeX.

For learning Emacs to do work with (La)TeX see the following questions:

• A simpleton's guide to (...)TeX workflow with emacs
• Useful shortcuts or key bindings or predefined commands for emacs+AUCTeX

Emacs tutorial

• Basic tutorial in emacs: C-h t (type Ctrl + h then t) in emacs

Useful Links

• A paper by RMS describing the design of Emacs
• The Emacs Wiki, a collaborative wiki for extensions to Emacs
• Wikipedia's Emacs page
• A tour of Emacs
• Emacs FAQ
• History of Emacs and GPL

Wisdom from the stack

• Is it worth investing time in learning to use emacs?
• How to quickly get started at using and learning Emacs
• Emacs without lisp
• Stack Overflow emacs-lisp and elisp tags
• Emacs Stack Exchange