Emacs overview
Early text editors were very rudimentary, so much so that they could not open an entire text document. To solve that, a text editor turned out to be more of a command that could generate words and dump them into a file, find and replace words in a file, delete lines in a file, and so on.
Editing large documents in this way could become quite boring. So, people started to develop macros to perform common related tasks.
In 1983, Richard Stallman released a package of his macros under the name Editing Macros, or Emacs for short. When Dr. Stallman started the GNU project, GNU Emacs became his most successful application.
GNU Emacs is a text editor designed for POSIX operating systems. It is often considered complex since it was developed long before modern computer conventions and terminology existed.
However, GNU Emacs offers efficient commands for common but complex actions, plus plugins and configuration hacks developed around it over 40 years. Once you learn...
