From: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gnu.org #332913] Minor web sales thing (not urgent)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:16:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7l09h0j.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcrpb9us.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com>
Romain Francoise wrote:
>
> Could you send us your updated version of emacs.html?
Sure, attached. I deleted the list of machines and replaced it with
the text as proposed by RMS (substituting "Intel-type" with
"PC-style").
> The patch you sent a while ago doesn't apply anymore, [...]
This is because Karl Berry went on and installed the notice about the
lack of printed versions of the Emacs Lisp Manual...
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<title>GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
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<h2>GNU Emacs</h2>
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<h3 id="Whatis">What is Emacs?</h3>
<p>
To quote the Emacs Manual:
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting
real-time display editor.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
If this seems to be a bit of a mouthful, an easier explanation is
Emacs is a text editor and more. At its core is an interpreter for
Emacs Lisp (“elisp”, for short), a dialect of
the <a href="#LispPointers">Lisp programming language</a> with
extensions to support text editing.
</p>
<p>
Some of the features of GNU Emacs include:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Content sensitive major modes for a wide variety of file types,
from plain text to source code to HTML files.</li>
<li>Complete online documentation, including a tutorial for new
users.</li>
<li>Highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp language.</li>
<li>Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the
European “Latin” scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian
scripts. (Sorry, Mayan hieroglyphs are not supported.)</li>
<li>A large number of extensions which add other functionality. The
GNU Emacs distribution includes many extensions; many others
are <a href="#FindingPackages">available separately</a>—even
a <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/w3/">web
browser</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Releases">Releases</h3>
<p>
GNU Emacs is a rapidly developed project. Extensions require time
to develop right and test thoroughly.
</p>
<h4 id="Development">Development & “Coming Soon”</h4>
<p>
GNU Emacs is actively being developed,
</p>
<ul>
<li>The next release will
have <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS">
many new features</a>, but no one specific essential feature.</li>
<li>A subsequent release will have
improved <a href="http://www.unicode.org">Unicode</a> support.</li>
<li>For more info read next release's
anticipated <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/TODO">TODOs</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/">GNU
Emacs CVS repository</a> is available for general access courtesy
of <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">savannah.gnu.org</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="Stable">Current Stable Release</h4>
<ul>
<li>Latest stable release:
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<b>21.4</b> (Feb 6, 2005)
<ul>
<li>Emacs version 21 supports variable width and height fonts,
playing sounds and the inclusion of images in a document, as
well as tool bars, plus nicer menus and scroll bars.</li>
<li>The latest release has some Unicode support
(more <a href="#Development">coming</a>).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>For more info read its <a href="NEWS.21.3">News</a> file.</li>
<li>To download visit the <a href="#Obtaining">obtaining</a>
section.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="History">Release History</h4>
<p>
Some of GNU Emacs' release history and accompanying release
announcements,
</p>
<ul>
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<li>Feb 6, 2005 - Emacs 21.4 released (fixing a security hole)</li>
<li>March 24, 2003
- <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2003-03/msg00000.html">
Emacs 21.3 released</a></li>
<li>March 18, 2002
- <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2002-03/msg00000.html">
Emacs 21.2 released</a></li>
<li>October 28, 2001
- <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00009.html">
Emacs 21.1 released</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Platforms">Supported Platforms</h3>
<p>
Emacs 21 runs on these operating systems regardless of the machine
type:
</p>
<ul>
<li>AIX 4.3.3 and higher</li>
<li>FreeBSD</li>
<li>GNU/Linux</li>
<li>Mac-OS X</li>
<li>MS DOS</li>
<li>MS Windows</li>
<li>NetBSD</li>
<li>OpenBSD</li>
<li>Solaris</li>
<li>SunOS</li>
<li>Ultrix</li>
</ul>
<p>
Most people use Emacs on ordinary PC-style machines, but Emacs
supports nearly all the computers that have been used in the past
two decades. See <kbd>etc/MACHINES</kbd> in the Emacs distribution
for a list of platforms that Emacs supports.
</p>
<p>
Next, here is a table listing some additional operating systems
which Emacs supports. We have listed an operating system here if it
can run on more than one machine type, or if other operating systems
can also run on the same machine type.
</p>
<p>
Many of the computer types listed above always or usually run one
particular operating system developed by the computer manufacturer.
(Often this is a variant of Unix.) We have not listed the names of
those operating systems here.
</p>
<ul>
<li>Berkeley Unix (BSD) 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4</li>
<li>Esix</li>
<li>Microport</li>
<li>SCO Unix</li>
<li>System V rel 0, rel 2, rel 2.2, rel 3, rel 4.0.3, rel 4.0.4</li>
<li>Uniplus 5.2</li>
<li>Xenix</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Why">Why is it called Emacs?</h3>
<p>
The name “Emacs” was originally chosen as an
abbreviation of Editor MACroS.
</p>
<p>
The original Emacs implementation was written for the Incompatible
Timesharing System (ITS) as a collection of TECO macros for ITS
TECO. There was a custom of giving such macro packages names ending
in “mac” or “macs”. A further reason for
choosing this particular name was that the abbreviation
“e” was unused at the time on ITS.
</p>
<p>
The Emacs FAQ (<a href="/software/emacs/emacs-faq.html">html</a>,
<a href="/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text">plain text</a>, Texinfo in
the Emacs source distribution) contains a longer explanation, as
well as a brief history of Emacs.
</p>
<h3 id="Obtaining">Obtaining GNU Emacs</h3>
<p>
GNU Emacs can be obtained
from <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/">
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/</a>, or from a local FTP
<a href="/order/ftp.html">mirror</a>.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/">GNU
Emacs CVS repository</a> is available for general access through
<a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/">savannah.gnu.org's
emacs project page</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="Help">Getting Help with GNU Emacs</h3>
<p>
Information on getting help with GNU software in general is
available at the <a href="/help/gethelp.html">Get Help with GNU
Software</a> page.
</p>
<h4 id="Manuals">Manuals</h4>
<p>
The Free Software Foundation publishes three
<a href="/doc/doc.html">manuals about GNU Emacs</a>. They are the
<cite><a href="/software/emacs/manual/index.html">Emacs
Manual</a></cite>,
the <cite><a href="/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro.html">
Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming</a></cite>, and the
<cite><a href="/software/emacs/elisp-manual/elisp.html">Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual</a></cite>. The Emacs Manual and Introduction to
Emacs Lisp can be <a href="https://agia.fsf.org/order/">purchased in
printed form</a> from the Free Software Foundation. The Emacs Lisp
Reference Manual is currently out of print, but you can read or
download the whole
thing <a href="/software/emacs/elisp-manual/">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
The source code for the Emacs Manual is included in the Emacs
distribution itself. The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is available
as a separate distribution on ftp.gnu.org. The Emacs Reference Card
(texinfo source) is
also <a href="/software/emacs/refcard-cs.tex">translated into
Czech</a>.
</p>
<p>
Here are the <a href="/software/emacs/its-cover.png">cover</a> of
the original Emacs Manual for ITS,
the <a href="/software/emacs/niu.png">cover</a> of the original
Emacs Manual for Twenex, and the only cartoon I've ever drawn,
<a href="/software/emacs/self-doc-extensible-editor.png"> the
Self-Documenting Extensible Editor</a>.
</p>
<h4 id="HelpFAQ">FAQ</h4>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="/software/emacs/emacs-faq.html">Emacs FAQ, html</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text">Emacs FAQ, plain text</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html">Emacs FAQ for
the Microsoft Windows port</a>.</li>
<li>The FAQ is maintained as part of the Emacs distribution, so the
Texinfo source for these documents are in the Emacs sources.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="HelpMailing">Mailing Lists</h4>
<p>
The mailing list
<a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs">
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org</a> is specifically for asking
for help with GNU Emacs. This is equivalent to the newsgroup
<a href="news:gnu.emacs.help">gnu.emacs.help</a>.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=40">Savannah page
for Emacs mailing lists</a> lists some more lists related to Emacs.
</p>
<p>
There are other <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/">GNU
mailing lists and newsgroups</a>, including several on GNU Emacs and
its extensions.
</p>
<h4 id="HelpUsenet">Usenet</h4>
<p>
There is a newsgroup specifically for asking for help with GNU Emacs
<a href="news:gnu.emacs.help">gnu.emacs.help</a>. This newsgroup is
gatewayed automatically to the mailing list
<a href="mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"><help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org></a>,
so anything you post on one of them appears on the other as
well.
</p>
<h3 id="FindingPackages">Finding packages for GNU Emacs</h3>
<p>
If you are looking for ELisp packages, check out the following
resources:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">the Emacs Wiki</a> (see below)</li>
<li>the <a href="/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text">Emacs FAQ</a>, under the
sections <cite>Finding/Getting Emacs and Related packages</cite>
and <cite>Major Emacs Lisp Packages, Emacs Extensions, and Related
Programs</cite>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Further">Further Information</h3>
<p>
The <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs">Savannah Emacs
page</a> has additional information about Emacs, including CVS
access to the Emacs development sources.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">Emacs Wiki</a> is a
community website which collects ELisp code, questions and answers
related to ELisp code and style; introductions to ELisp packages and
links to their sources; complete manuals or documentation fragments;
comments on features, differences, and history of different Emacs
versions, flavors, and ports; jokes; pointers to clones and Emacs
look-alikes, as well as references to other Emacs related
information on the Web.
</p>
<p>
If you haven't had any experience with Lisp, you can find some
useful information at <a name="LispPointers"
href="http://www.lisp.org/table/contents.htm">The Association of
Lisp Users</a>.
</p>
<p>
We also have a copy of
the <a href="/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html">1981 paper by Richard
Stallman</a>, describing the design of the original Emacs and the
lessons to be learned from it.
</p>
<p>
There is also <a href="/gnu/rms-lisp.html">a transcript of a
speech, <cite>My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU
Emacs</cite></a> given by Richard Stallman at the International Lisp
Conference on 28 Oct 2002.
</p>
<h3 id="YouHelp">How to Help with GNU Emacs</h3>
<p>
To contact the maintainers of Emacs, either to report a bug or to
contribute fixes or improvements, send mail
to <a href="mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org"><bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org></a>.
</p>
<h3 id="GNUEmacsFun">GNU Emacs Fun</h3>
<ul>
<li>April Fool Mail - <a href="/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.html">emacs
rewrite</a></li>
<li><a href="/fun/humor.html">More</a> humors related to GNU Emacs
and others</li>
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