Longtime users of the venerable Emacs editor can now use it with a sleek new skin that emphasizes consistency and ergonomics A new distribution of the Emacs editor, called Spacemacs, repackages ...

Shells like KornShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish offer command-line editing; Emacs-style editing is recommended. Have ...

Emacs, on the other hand, offers a far more conventional and accessible editing environment, with commands based on reasonably intuitive combinations: Ctrl-S lets you search, Ctrl-X Ctrl-S saves ...

Maybe by Emacs.NET they mean an Emacs-like editor built on .NET languages (maybe with PowerShell integration) instead of Lisp," speculated Joel Spolsky, ...

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned … ...

Hi there, I'm having a problem with Emacs (the one used on Terminal/ CLI, not the gtk version)Every time I start it, it prints: Cannot open load file: encoded-kb Below the Modeline.Tried starting ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

News.com reader Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, says he, not Java inventor James Gosling, wrote the first Emacs editor, in 1975.

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned ...

The site describes it as "the common name for the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (Vim) text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community.

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.