[Herefordshire] Having a blonde moment!!!!

[Phil Taylor]

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html


The name ``Emacs'' was originally chosen as an abbreviation of Editor 
MACroS.



To quote the Emacs Manual:

    Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
    display editor.



If this seems to be a bit of a mouthful, an easier explanation is Emacs 
is a text editor and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp 
(``elisp'', for short), a dialect of the Lisp programming language 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#LispPointers> with 
extensions to support text editing. Some of the features of GNU Emacs 
include:

    * Content sensitive major modes for a wide variety of file types,
      from plain text to source code to HTML files.
    * Complete online documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
    * Highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp language.
    * Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the
      European ``Latin'' scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese,
      Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts.
      (Sorry, Mayan hieroglyphs are not supported.)
    * A large number of extensions which add other functionality. The
      GNU Emacs distribution includes many extensions; many others are
      available separately
      <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#FindingPackages>--even
      a web browser <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html>



David Shorthouse wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what Emacs stands forI keeps coming up on the Linux 
> format but I Dont have any idea what it is????
>
> I hope all is well & see you all soon...
>
> Dave the Raver
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