Emacs

Emacs denominates Article description::a class of powerful, extensible, self-documenting text editors. The original implementation is GNU Emacs, which is still updated today.

Available software
There are a number of implementations of Emacs, often lightweight versions, many of which are available in Gentoo. Some of these projects may be feature-complete, without recent releases.

Ebuild repository
The Emacs project runs an ebuild repository for GNU Emacs and XEmacs (see Project:Emacs/Overlay) which contains a number of packages including many VCS builds. To add the repository:

or

Many more Emacs related packages should now be available for installation.

External resources

 * GNU Emacs Reference Card (PDF).
 * Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years by Perry E. Metzger (video).