The GNU Emacs 24.4 Reference Manual - Paperback

by Richard M. Stallman (Author)

GNU Emacs is much more than a text editor; over the years it has expanded into an entire work flow environment. Programmers are impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual text editor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments. When you tire of all the work you can accomplish with it, Emacs contains games to play.
Features include:

• Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.
• Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles for GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows/DOS and VMS systems
• Support for typing and displaying in 21 non-English languages, including Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Vietnamese, and all Western European languages
• Creates Postscript output from plain text files and has special editing modes for LaTeX and TeX
• Compile and debug from inside Emacs
• Maintain extensive ChangeLogs
• Extensive file merge and diff functions
• Directory navigation: flag, move, and delete files and sub-directories recursively
• Run shell commands from inside Emacs, or even use Emacs as a shell itself (Eshell)
• Version control management for release and beta versions, with CVS and RCS integration.
• And much more!