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I'm trying out http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net now that I have it running on windows. I'd like to use emacs as more than a plain text editor and was wondering what extensions/packages everyone can't live with out? The languages I use the most are Perl, Java, and some C/C++.
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Emacs is easier to learn since it has a more natural interface (for users familiar with GUI-based text editors). Since Vim has different editing modes, beginners find it a little harder to learn.
Plugins and package managementEmacs has lots of plugins, and it's hard to imagine using a text editor that doesn't have user-contributed extensions. In simpler times, you could download an elisp file (or copy and paste it from the internet) and stash it away in your .
Emacs is a text editing tool that comes out-of-the-box with Linux and macOS. As a (less popular) cousin of Vim, Emacs also offers powerful capabilities with easy-to-install language support, and can even help you navigate faster in macOS with the same keybindings.
Emacs is very good for any kind of plain text file editing (I'm not talking about editing images or video files here), even for regular people (who is not a programmer). For me, Emacs is the best editor.
There is a pretty terrific initial setup in the EMACS Starter Kit. If you like working with plain text, look at Org-Mode. And by all means, explore the EMACS Wiki.
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I like color theme and of course the modes for the languages I'm using.
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