Emacs: Difference between revisions

{{IDE}}'''Emacs''' is a set of text editors controlled by [[Emacs Lisp]]. The two main types of Emacs are GNU Emacs and XEmacs. Usually, people just call them "Emacs". Gnu Emacs calls itself an "extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." Features of both forms of Emacs include syntax highlighting for a variety of [[programming language|programming languages]], easy movement through documents, and keyboard macros. Plugins and [[libraries]] can be used in conjunction with emacs to make it do more interesting things like diffs, play text games, and view email.