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# Kill-9's Emacs things
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Emacs (short for Editor MACroS) is a text editor[^1] made by Carl
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Mikkelsen and David A. Moon in the late 70s, and had too many
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implementations, such as XEmacs, Freemacs, µEmacs (microemacs). in
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1984, the GNU project ~~stole~~ rewrote the original Emacs code
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and the most used version of Emacs was born: GNU Emacs.
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# Installation
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Windows users: <https://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/GNU/emacs/windows/> (Or their nearly GNU mirror)
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Mac Users: brew install emacs, I guess.
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GNU/Linux users: probably the "emacs" package on your distro's repos
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BSD users:
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FreeBSD: Install off of ports tree or "pkg install emacs"
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OpenBSD: pkg_add emacs or ports tree
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NetBSD: pkgsrc or pkgin install emacs[^2]
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Plan 9 users: What are you doing here?
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# Other versions of Emacs
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As mentioned above, there are other versions of emacs, most of them
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are obsolete (XEmacs for example). µEmacs is the emacs version used
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by Linus Torvalds[^3] I do not recommend to use it. If you want to use
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a mini Emacs, you should try [Zile](https://gnu.org/software/zile) or
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[Jed](http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/). Zile is stupidly minimum while Jed
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has syntax highlighting and other kind of programs. But not close to
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real GNU Emacs.
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You can find more about Emacs on the sidebar.
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# Information about Emacs
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In Emacs, everything is an Emacs Lisp function, each keybinding, every
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M-x function is written in Emacs Lisp, Emacs Lisp is a complete
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programming language. So that's why you can see browsers inside Emacs.
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In this book, I'll write the name of the function in front of a keybinding. Because they're pretty self explanatory
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**Highly work in progress, please [contribute](https://gitlab.com/qorg11/kill9)**
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[^1]: Some people call it a "operating system", but I prefer to call it a Emacs Lisp interpreter.
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[^2]: This won't work if you don't have pkgin installed. If you don't, use pkg_add
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[^3]: <https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs>
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