If you use emacs at all, you’ll quickly discover that it’s much more than just a text editor. Emacs is a software development platform, too, and as such it’s nearly endlessly customizable. One result of this extensibility is that, if you use emacs very much, your customization …

For those who aren’t familiar, Emacs is a text eeditor - and much more. First created in 1976, Emacs is built - and extensible - in the Lisp programming language. And this gives it an enormous amount of power. People have extended Emacs to include e-mail and newsgroup functionality, full-featured IDEs for …