what is Emacs?

[SDBFG]

hello sir
i found Emacs what does it do?

[BradC]

i found Emacs what does it do?

Pretty much everything except make coffee (and I think that's on the todo).

"man emacs" might be a good start.

[AG6QR]

It's a text editor.  And a whole lot more.  it's very extendable, and can be programmed to do almost anything.  It works on virtually any system, including Unix, Linux, DOS, Windows, Mac, and more.  It's probably the most powerful and customizable text editor around.  Google "emacs tips" or "emacs tricks" for lots more info.

It's also free and open source.

[daqq]

All of your questions posted so far are vague questions that show zero initiative, zero work done to help yourself and can be answered by a few minutes on google. You are probably a troll.

[bd139]

An “editor” which mutated into something insane. Also known as Escape Meta Alt Control Shift. It’s like playing twister with your fingers. You need this guy’s fingers for optimum performance.

https://youtu.be/KlJ8eTuFe9U

Alas if you master it, the minds eye will be opened into the dimension of lisp.

I am merely mortal though so I can’t use it effectively.

[newbrain]

For about 25 years, emacs has been THE EDITOR for me.
I even wrote a clone in 8086 assembler in about ~13kB, a Forth (not(lisp)) compiler included, for MS-DOS 2.11...

Jokes on its all encompassing extensibility abound, one for all its own overflowing sink old icon:


If you are a vi user, emacs can give you good counselling:

Code: [Select]

M-x doctorM-x == Esc followed by x, or Alt-x on PCs

I am the psychotherapist.  Please, describe your problems.  Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Vi is better than emacs

Emacs?  Hah!  I would appreciate it if you would continue.

Vi is simpler to understand

Why do you say
vi is simpler to understand?

[helius]

For about 25 years, emacs has been THE EDITOR for me.
I even wrote a clone in 8086 assembler in about ~13kB, a Forth (not(lisp)) compiler included, for MS-DOS 2.11...

Hey, that's cool! I remember one of the best MS-DOS editors was Lugaru Epsilon, which was an Emacs clone using a C-like extension language.
I think it was quite a bit bigger than 13KB...

[Zero999]

hello sir
i found Emacs what does it do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

[T3sl4co1l]

Not vim.

/scurries away

[daqq]

Not vim.

/scurries away

Good.

/scurries away

[bd139]

New unix system users:

Emacs users:

"fuck it's only got vi on it"
...tries to edit file .... fuck shit fuckety fuck ... esc esc :q!
"install nano or emacs"
...edit file

Vim users:

...Edit file using vi, grumbling slightly about the one level undo and lack of syntax highlighting.

[NivagSwerdna]

i found Emacs what does it do?

I understand that religious discussions are frowned upon here.
However, welcome to the Church of EMACS.
EMACS is a life choice not an editor, TECO is an editor and vi[m] is a utility

[tggzzz]

i found Emacs what does it do?

I understand that religious discussions are frowned upon here.
However, welcome to the Church of EMACS.
EMACS is a life choice not an editor, TECO is an editor and vi[m] is a utility

Except that you misspelled "editor" when you clearly meant "abomination", and you should append "(allegedly)" to the sentence.

Apart from that, this is a remarkable prescient troll from someone that hasn't come across google (check the OP's other posts to see why I think that!)

[madires]

Isn't Emacs a Lisp interpreter?

[BravoV]

All of your questions posted so far are vague questions that show zero initiative, zero work done to help yourself and can be answered by a few minutes on google. You are probably a troll.

Nothing against certain countries, its just this is the typical "weird" questions from people at those areas where OP lives.

I've seen and experienced too many nice technical forums at the internet that were trashed and completely swarmed by this kind of behavior that abuse the community helpful & friendly atmosphere , definitely not language problem, I guess its cultural.

PS : The OP just made another "weird" new thread again -> HERE. 

[BradC]

definitely not language problem, I guess its cultural.

Yup. Saw a *lot* of this while I was in the Middle East, usually followed by "please do the needful ASAP".

[NivagSwerdna]

Anyone asking about Emacs can't be all that bad.  And they call me "Sir".   

[BravoV]

And they call me "Sir".   

This is one of the typical signature too. 

[Ampera]

I use nano because it seems to be the only Unix or Unix-like text editor that seems any bit reasonable.

[grumpydoc]

New unix system users:

Emacs users:

"fuck it's only got vi on it"
...tries to edit file .... fuck shit fuckety fuck ... esc esc :q!
"install nano or emacs"
...edit file

All Emacs users should know just enough vi to edit the Emacs Makefiles for their system. Real men use ed, however.

hello sir
i found Emacs what does it do?

JFGI

[BravoV]

definitely not language problem, I guess its cultural.

Yup. Saw a *lot* of this while I was in the Middle East, usually followed by "please do the needful ASAP".

Usually these created a situation that resides in grey area, that made moderator's life a lot harder as they are not fall into the spammer/troll category type.

Once the moderators team are completely overwhelmed and give up, you can expect the forum's quality begins to deteriorate like many I've seen & experienced. 

[grumpydoc]

Isn't Emacs a Lisp interpreter?

[Ignoring the on purpose]

The GNU implementation and many other Emacsen are indeed Lisp interpreters - or at any rate they are a set of bare bones editing functions (with bindings to make them callable from Lisp) plus a (basic) Lisp interpreter and then the complete editor is written in Lisp on top of that.

Originally, however, it was a set of macros for a heavily modified version of TECO and there are many emacs-like editors which are not built upon a Lisp framework.

Alternative names:
Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (from the days when 8M was big)
Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
Emacs Makes A Computer Slow

[Cerebus]

The question was: "what is Emacs?"

The answer is an acronym for
Eight
Megs
And
Constantly
Swapping.

Anyone asking about Emacs can't be all that bad.  And they call me "Sir".   

You must be mistaken, it was clearly I who was addressed as Sir.   

[grumpydoc]

The question was: "what is Emacs?"

The answer is an acronym for
Eight
Megs
And
Constantly
Swapping.

Snap!

[BradC]

Usually these created a situation that resides in grey area, that made moderator's life a lot harder as they are not fall into the spammer/troll category type.

Yeah, I never saw it on a forum. It was in the office, on site, in the contractors office.. you get the idea. There appears to be a particular branch there somewhere that are educated to be completely spoon fed. It's like "Here's the book. Learn what's in the book. Never question the book. All you ever need to know is in the book.". When something arises that isn't in the book it becomes a case of turn to the first person you see and ask "what is that, what does it do and how do I work it?". The problem is as the answers to those questions aren't in the book either, it just becomes a snake eating its own tail.