The Emacs Editor

Emacs is the advanced, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor. This manual describes how to edit with Emacs and some of the ways to customize it; it corresponds to GNU Emacs version 29.1.

The GNU Emacs website is at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.

For information on extending Emacs, see Top (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual) .

This is the GNU Emacs Manual, updated for Emacs version 29.1.

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