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.

Longtime users of the venerable Emacs editor can now use it with a sleek new skin that emphasizes consistency and ergonomics A new distribution of the Emacs editor, called Spacemacs, repackages the ...

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 ...

Rarely on these pages have I read such a fluff piece! Al Williams’ coverage of Emacs versus Vim was an affront to the type of in-depth coverage our Hackaday readers deserve. While attempting to be ...

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.

KeySnail (free) adds a wide array of features to the Firefox Web browser that are accessed using a sequence of keystrokes, such as Ctrl-x followed by b, rather than one hotkey. The keystrokes are ...

In a world where both software and hardware frequently become obsolete right on release, two rival programs can stake a claim to being among the longest-lived applications of all time. Both programs ...

In response to the Jan. 17 Newsmaker interview with James Gosling, "Why Microsoft's C# isn't": In your interview with James Gosling, he says that he was "responsible for the original Emacs, 23 years ...

For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.

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.