Book Description

GNU Emacs is much more than a word processor; over the years it has expanded into and entire workflow environment. Programmers are impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual word processor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments. When you tire of all the work you can accomplish with it, Emacs contains games to play.Features include:* Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.* Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles for GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows/DOS and VMS systems* Support for typing and displaying in 21 non-English languages, including Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Vietnamese, and all Western European languages* Creates Postscript output from plain text files and has special editing modes for LaTeX and TeX* Compile and debug from inside Emacs* Maintain extensive ChangeLogs* Extensive file merge and diff functions* Directory navigation: flag, move, and delete files and sub-directories recursively* Run shell commands from inside Emacs, or even use Emacs as a shell itself (Eshell)* Version control management for release and beta versions, with CVS and RCS integration.* And much more!