EMACS
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EMACS is a really nice text editor that is extremely useful and compatible with all of the major platforms. Keep in mind that text editors are a must for creating and editing program files like FORTRAN, PYTHON, or PERL. You can use Notepad, or Wordpad, but they are not designed for this type of work, so it is just better to install a text editor. I learned to write program using EMACS, but have now moved on to VIM. However, if you are not going to be doing lots of programming, EMACS will work just fine, and is less complicated/useful. To use EMACS, you first have to install it
EMACS mode Make EMACS bend to your will. You can make key commands colorful
a web site of sample .emacs files contributed by various users.
