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| 1 | +title: Emacs |
| 2 | +category: page |
| 3 | +slug: emacs |
| 4 | +sort-order: 0205 |
| 5 | +meta: GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +# Emacs |
| 8 | +Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time |
| 9 | +display editor. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## Why is Emacs matters? |
| 12 | +Emacs is powerful text editor with unlimited flexibility. Emacs |
| 13 | +customized and mostly written in Emacs Lisp. Your configuration is |
| 14 | +the code as any other emacs package. There are builtin Emacs Lisp |
| 15 | +package manager named package.el with interactive menu for managing |
| 16 | +your package installation. [Melpa](http://melpa.org) is the biggest |
| 17 | +Emacs Lisp Package Archive with automatic updates from upstream |
| 18 | +source. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Emacs support interactive customization interface. Call customize |
| 21 | +command to see section hierarchy with options grouped by packages. |
| 22 | +All customizations saved in your config file with proper comments. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +When you need to do a lot of repeated actions you has an option to |
| 25 | +capture a macro, repeat it any times and even save it directly to your |
| 26 | +configuration file. You can automate Emacs without writing Emacs Lisp |
| 27 | +code at all! |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +The last by not least thing I want to mention here is a hooks. Hooks |
| 30 | +are events lives in Emacs all time you do something. You can add |
| 31 | +custom handlers for each event in different manners. You can pretty |
| 32 | +print you sources before you save a file. You can turn on spell |
| 33 | +checking when open text file. You can pop up tray notification when |
| 34 | +you get incoming jabber message :) |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +I hope this information is sufficient to interest you to try this |
| 37 | +great text editor. Links bellow contains manuals to start with Emacs, |
| 38 | +advanced configurations with valuable effort to make you more |
| 39 | +productive and list of packages most interested for python developers. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +## General Emacs resources |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +* [GNU Emacs Manual](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html) |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +* [Emacs Redux](http://emacsredux.com/) Return to the Essence of Text |
| 46 | + Editing |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +* [Emacs Rocks](http://emacsrocks.com/) Video series |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +* [What The Emacs.d](http://whattheemacsd.com/) Tons of tiny |
| 51 | + optimizations for your workflow. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +## Notable Elisp Packages |
| 54 | +* With [Magit](http://magit.github.io/), you can inspect and modify |
| 55 | + your Git repositories with Emacs. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +* [company-mode](http://company-mode.github.io/) Modular in-buffer |
| 58 | + completion framework for Emacs. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +* [Flycheck](http://flycheck.github.io/) Syntax checking for GNU Emacs |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +* [anaconda-mode](https://github.com/proofit404/anaconda-mode/) Code |
| 63 | + navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Python. It use |
| 64 | + awesome [jedi](http://jedi.jedidjah.ch/en/latest/) library under the |
| 65 | + hood. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +* [Tern](http://ternjs.net/)is a stand-alone code-analysis engine for |
| 68 | + JavaScript. It can be simple integrated within your django project |
| 69 | + via [tern-django](https://github.com/proofit404/tern-django) package. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +## Popular user configurations |
| 72 | +* [Prelude](https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude) is an enhanced Emacs |
| 73 | + 24 distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both |
| 74 | + more pleasant and more powerful. |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +* [A reasonable Emacs config](https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d) An |
| 77 | + Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +* [Emacs settings](https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d) used in the |
| 80 | + Emacs Rocks screencasts. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +* [Spacemacs](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs) Emacs advanced |
| 83 | + Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's |
| 84 | + Emacs *and* Vim! |
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