Emacs
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CommentsWhat is Emacs?
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Emacs is a tool in the Code Collaboration category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML.Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts.Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs others are available separately.
Emacs Pros & Cons
Pros of Emacs
- ✓Vast array of extensions
- ✓Have all you can imagine
- ✓Everything i need in one place
- ✓Portability
- ✓Customer config
- ✓Your config works on any platform
- ✓Low memory consumption
- ✓Perfect for monsters
- ✓All life inside one program
- ✓Extendable, portable, fast - all at your fingertips
Cons of Emacs
- ✗Hard to learn for beginners
- ✗So good and extensible, that one can get sidetracked
- ✗Not default preinstalled in GNU/linux
Emacs Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Emacs?
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
