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<H2>What is Emacs?</H2>
To quote the Emacs Manual:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
display editor.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp (``elisp'', for short),
a dialect of the <foldoc Lisp> programming language with extensions to support
text editing.

<H2>Features of GNU Emacs</H2>
Some of the numberous features of GNU Emacs include:
<UL>
<LI>Content sensitive major modes for a wide variety of file types and
external programs.  From plain text to source code to <foldoc HTML> files.
<LI>Complete online documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
<LI>Highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp language.
<LI>Emacs Lisp programs are effectively platform and <foldoc user interface>
independent.  Emacs runs on many platforms and a graphical as well
as a character-based display is supported. 
<LI>Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the
European ``Latin'' scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts.
</UL>

<H2>Web Resources</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">The Emacswiki</A> -- collects
<emacswiki EmacsLisp></emacswiki> code,
questions and answers related to elisp
<emacswiki CategoryCode>code and style</emacswiki>,
introductions to elisp packages and links to their sources, or the
source itself,
complete manuals or documentation fragments,
comments on Emacs and
<A href="http://www.xemacs.org/">XEmacs</A> features, differences and
<emacswiki CategoryHistory>history</emacswiki>,
<emacswiki CategoryPorts>ports</emacswiki>,
<emacswiki CategoryHumor>jokes</emacswiki>,
pointers to clones and emacs-look-alikes,
as well as references to other emacs related information on the web.</LI>
<LI><emacswiki MarioLang>EmacsWiki:MarioLang</emacswiki> -- my personal homepage at the Emacswiki</LI>
<LI><A href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/">Emacs at savannah</A> -- the GNU Emacs development center</LI>
<LI><A href="http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/">
     Emacspeak User's Manual</A>
     --2nd Edition</LI>

</UL>