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emacs

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Editorial note

All default emacs keyboard shortcuts would always work, so learning vanilla emacs is still helpful.

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Quick take

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.

noun

(computing) A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for emacs.

noun

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.

noun

(computing) A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.

Example sentences

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All default emacs keyboard shortcuts would always work, so learning vanilla emacs is still helpful.

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I use emacs with jedi too, but the auto-completion is not so good.

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You can get a lot of these features in Emacs (or try Spacemacs), or Vim, or Sublime (with plugins).

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IntelliSense is pretty good, sure, but emacs is a superior development environment in nearly every other aspect.

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Something like 'the probability of someone mentioning emacs as great operating system in any discussion about text editors = 1'.

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So at least morally, there are sufficiently developers for both emacs and vim (in my experience).

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How long does it take to set up Emacs to be as good as IDE?

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Ability to edit very large files with ease was another one in favour of emacs.

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That, and the fact that it's very easy to extend it with Emacs Lisp.

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I've tried and failed several times in the past 15 years to start using emacs for software development.

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And you get can get autocompletion in Emacs as well, so there's that.

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Menu->File->Quit I have the menu bar switched off though, so a new user trying my emacs wouldn't have a clue.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use emacs in a sentence?

All default emacs keyboard shortcuts would always work, so learning vanilla emacs is still helpful.

What does emacs mean?

(computing) Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.

What part of speech is emacs?

emacs is commonly used as noun.