Cruise along the learning curve for Emacs text editing with these basic commands. Emacs is a LISP interpreter that functions as a text editor in Linux, distributed by the Free Software Association.

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

Old-school flame wars about the best bare-bones text editor for software development may be revived as new editions of Vim and GNU Emacs were released in the same week. The two text editors have ...

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The message posted Friday evening on emacs-devel by Richard Stallman was cryptic: “Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.” Just like that: 32 ...

If anyone understands the importance of a good text editor, it's a Linux user stuck on Windows. Sure, Microsoft supplies Notepad and Wordpad, but neither really feels like the powerful sort of text ...

Microsoft is looking at Emacs text editor technology to help enable model-driven development as part of its Oslo project. Acknowleding recent references to an Emacs.net-like environment, Burley ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.