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Emacs is one of the oldest and most versatile text editors available for
UNIX-based systems. It's been around for a long time (more than twenty years
for GNU emacs) and is well known for its powerful and rich editing features.
Emacs is also more than just a text editor; it can be customized and extended with different "modes", enabling it to be used like an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming languages like Java, C or Python.
For those who have used both the ubiquitous vi and the user-friendly nano, emacs would come as an interesting cross-between. Its strengths and features would resemble those of vi while its menus, help files and easy-to-remember command-keys would compare with nano.
In this article, we will see how we can install emacs in a Linux system and use it for basic text editing. Emacs is also available for graphical window managers, however we will only cover the "text based" version here.
Emacs is also more than just a text editor; it can be customized and extended with different "modes", enabling it to be used like an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming languages like Java, C or Python.
For those who have used both the ubiquitous vi and the user-friendly nano, emacs would come as an interesting cross-between. Its strengths and features would resemble those of vi while its menus, help files and easy-to-remember command-keys would compare with nano.
In this article, we will see how we can install emacs in a Linux system and use it for basic text editing. Emacs is also available for graphical window managers, however we will only cover the "text based" version here.
Open a file, or create it like this:
emacs file1.txt
And then follow the simple manual that will be open.