wiki/notebook/2021-06-20-20-42-44.org
Gabriel Arazas b088086b06 Merge evergreen notes into the notebook
Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it
is just my notes after all.

I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is
this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my
"Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and
hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under
version control already.
2021-07-21 16:28:07 +08:00

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GNU Emacs

The ever-popular Emacs, at least popular enough to be used by 4.5% of the respondents from the Stack Overflow survey of 2019. It is one of the usual symbol of extensibility and roam:Free software due to its ecosystem of plugins and extensions integrating Emacs. It also allows the user to customize anything within it.

To show how extensible it is, here is a list of extensions that may as well be an entirely new application altogether:

Among other things, it is also where Org mode documents are often written from as well as making use of Org mode: Babel as a component for Reproducible research.

People have been building it with complex workflows all in one environment. In a way, Emacs is an entire operating system by itself.

As a complex text editor, you can start with Using the built-in help system of Emacs.