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“You don’t have to like Emacs to like it”—this seemingly paradoxical statement is the secret of GNU Emacs. The plain, ‘out of the box’ Emacs is a generic tool. Most people who use it, customize it to suit themselves.
GNU Emacs is mostly written in Emacs Lisp; this means that by writing expressions in Emacs Lisp you can change or extend Emacs.
| • Default Configuration: | ||
| • Site-wide Init: | You can write site-wide init files. | |
| • defcustom: | Emacs will write code for you. | |
| • Beginning init File: | How to write a .emacs init file. | |
| • Text and Auto-fill: | Automatically wrap lines. | |
| • Mail Aliases: | Use abbreviations for email addresses. | |
| • Indent Tabs Mode: | Don’t use tabs with TeX | |
| • Keybindings: | Create some personal keybindings. | |
| • Keymaps: | More about key binding. | |
| • Loading Files: | Load (i.e., evaluate) files automatically. | |
| • Autoload: | Make functions available. | |
| • Simple Extension: | Define a function; bind it to a key. | |
| • X11 Colors: | Colors in X. | |
| • Miscellaneous: | ||
| • Mode Line: | How to customize your mode line. |
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