mattmakai · mattmakai · Mar 4, 2015 · Mar 1, 2015 · Mar 1, 2015
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+# Emacs backups
+*~
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+title: Emacs
+category: page
+slug: emacs
+sort-order: 0205
+meta: GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
+
+# Emacs
+Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
+display editor.
+
+## Why is Emacs matters?
+Emacs is powerful text editor with unlimited flexibility.  Emacs
+customized and mostly written in Emacs Lisp.  Your configuration is
+the code as any other emacs package.  There are builtin Emacs Lisp
+package manager named package.el with interactive menu for managing
+your package installation.  [Melpa](http://melpa.org) is the biggest
+Emacs Lisp Package Archive with automatic updates from upstream
+source.
+
+Emacs support interactive customization interface.  Call customize
+command to see section hierarchy with options grouped by packages.
+All customizations saved in your config file with proper comments.
+
+When you need to do a lot of repeated actions you has an option to
+capture a macro, repeat it any times and even save it directly to your
+configuration file.  You can automate Emacs without writing Emacs Lisp
+code at all!
+
+The last by not least thing I want to mention here is a hooks.  Hooks
+are events lives in Emacs all time you do something.  You can add
+custom handlers for each event in different manners.  You can pretty
+print you sources before you save a file.  You can turn on spell
+checking when open text file.  You can pop up tray notification when
+you get incoming jabber message :)
+
+I hope this information is sufficient to interest you to try this
+great text editor.  Links bellow contains manuals to start with Emacs,
+advanced configurations with valuable effort to make you more
+productive and list of packages most interested for python developers.
+
+## General Emacs resources
+
+* [GNU Emacs Manual](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html)
+
+* [Emacs Redux](http://emacsredux.com/) Return to the Essence of Text
+  Editing
+
+* [Emacs Rocks](http://emacsrocks.com/) Video series
+
+* [What The Emacs.d](http://whattheemacsd.com/) Tons of tiny
+  optimizations for your workflow.
+
+## Notable Elisp Packages
+* With [Magit](http://magit.github.io/), you can inspect and modify
+  your Git repositories with Emacs.
+
+* [company-mode](http://company-mode.github.io/) Modular in-buffer
+  completion framework for Emacs.
+
+* [Flycheck](http://flycheck.github.io/) Syntax checking for GNU Emacs
+
+* [anaconda-mode](https://github.com/proofit404/anaconda-mode/) Code
+  navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Python.  It use
+  awesome [jedi](http://jedi.jedidjah.ch/en/latest/) library under the
+  hood.
+
+* [Tern](http://ternjs.net/)is a stand-alone code-analysis engine for
+  JavaScript. It can be simple integrated within your django project
+  via [tern-django](https://github.com/proofit404/tern-django) package.
+
+## Popular user configurations
+* [Prelude](https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude) is an enhanced Emacs
+  24 distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both
+  more pleasant and more powerful.
+
+* [A reasonable Emacs config](https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d) An
+  Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included
+
+* [Emacs settings](https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d) used in the
+  Emacs Rocks screencasts.
+
+* [Spacemacs](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs) Emacs advanced
+  Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's
+  Emacs *and* Vim!