Emacs

What is Emacs?

Emacs is a very popular text editor by MIT. Its use is highly recommended. You can use Emacs to create programs, TeX/LaTeX documents, and edit datafiles. It outputs ASCII text.

How to Use

To access Emacs in X Windows use following commands:

setenv DISPLAY yourmachinename:0.0
emacs

To access Emacs without using its own window use following command:

emacs -nw

Manuals Availability

Please HERE for the Emacs Quick Reference

Please HERE for the Emacs Tutorial

Availability

Emacs is available on the Suns, SGIs, IBMs, and EPIX machines.

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