The various professors in my CS courses have been bugging us to stop using GUI based editors and start using emacs. I've tried using it several times but gave up due to the steep learning curve. Can ...

This article is a whirlwind introduction to Emacs that assumes you have Emacs installed and running (easy enough on most Linux distributions). It also assumes that you have used Emacs' built-in ...

Were Emacs' shortcuts created by mad monkeys, slamming their little simian hands against broken typewriters? I like keyboard shortcuts, and I want to like Emacs, but I'm just not getting it. There ...

The GNU symbolic debugger, GDB, is a powerful development tool, but one drawback is it works only from the command line. GDB has some clever features that make it easy to use on the command line, such ...