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emacs

Emacs is a full featured editor which is a good alternative to vi.

Emacs is a complete working environment, allowing one to: edit, rename, delete, and copy files; compile programs; interact with the Unix shell; and so on. Emacs can also be used with X Windows.

The following newsgroups discuss Emacs (see them for more help): comp.emacs, gnu.emacs, gnu.emacs.announce, gnu.emacs.help, et al.

For: Unix.

Documentation

Man page: emacs
Man page: ctags
Man page: etags
O'Reilly "Learning GNU Emacs" book, available at most book stores
Netnews/Usenet Emacs FAQs: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/
The Gnu Info Tree

Versions available: 19.32 on tigger; 19.32 on icarus; also argo.

Partial support for this software is available from the UIC Computer Center.

2006-11-27 JGS