Emacs reference materials

Emacs, XEmacs, Emacs Lisp

Emacs

The Emacs Reference Card (also available in in Postscript (printable) or Text format).

The Gnu Emacs Manual (the info pages). Many, many, more info pages are available.

GNU Emacs Frequently Asked Questions (split by question)

Case insensitive Allow partial match to a word
Please note: `#' is the wild card character, `;' is the AND operation, and the following special characters:


$  ^  *  [  |  (  )  !  \  ;  ,  #  <  >  -  .

must be preceded by \ if they are to be matched as regular characters. More help on constructing searches is available.

Emacs Implementations and Literature FAQ

From the FAQ: XEmacs is an alternative to GNU Emacs, originally based on an early alpha version of FSF's version 19. XEmacs was known as Lucid Emacs through version 19.10. Almost all features of GNU Emacs are supported in XEmacs (the ones that aren't supported are generally implemented in a better way in XEmacs). The maintainers of XEmacs actively track changes to GNU Emacs while also working to add new features never before seen in Emacs. The current version is 19.13, released on September 1, 1995.

XEmacs has an Official home page which includes:

Emacs Lisp

A hypertext introduction to Emacs Lisp

Info pages:

Emacs Lisp Archives:

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Jennifer Myers <jmyers@eecs.nwu.edu> (Last modified: 5-Oct-95)