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Code CollaborationWhat 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?
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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.
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
