"Emacs is not an editor. emacs is a way of thinking about the world, and as such is a way of thinking about editors. the process of editing is Emacs, but Emacs is more than the process of editing. when you ask what Emacs does, you
Are asking a question with no answer, because Emacs doesn't do, it is done to. emacs just is... I hope this makes things clearer. "-Scott Dorsey
In short, Emacs is a text editing software, but it can be used to write programs, write papers, write web pages, write blogs, manage files, send and receive emails, and browse the Internet, it can also be said that Emacs is an operating system.
Emacs is part of the GNU project. Here is its official address and FAQ.
For Windows.
Emacs-wiki can be seen as an extension of Emacs. The introduction on the maintainer homepage is a wiki-like publishing tool and
Personal information manager.
Install
Emacs in windows, that is, ntemacs, provides a download address,
GNU provides a more detailed introduction.
Emacs-wiki can be obtained from here. Because emacs-wiki is an extension of Emacs, its installation only needs to be loaded in Emacs. Some versions of Emacs
Emacs-wiki may already exist. You can find the statement for loading emacs-Wiki in the configuration file. emacs (some are _ Emacs) of Emacs (such as searching for wiki ):
(load "emacs-wiki") ; wikiwiki (veja lisp/extra-w/emacs-wiki.el)
If you want to install another version, you need to comment out the above statements first.
Decompress emacs-wiki, for example, put it in the home folder (the path is ~ /Emacs-wiki), add the following statement to. emacs:
(add-to-list ‘load-path “~/emacs-wiki”)(require ‘emacs-wiki)
Basic usage
For basic Emacs operations, see tutorial (c-h t) in help)
For basic operations on Emacs-wiki, refer to the built-in markup: C-H v emacs-wiki-publishing-markup.
The above two help documents are quite detailed.