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Emacs in a sentence

Emacs meaning

A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.

Using Emacs

  • The main meaning on this page is: A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.
  • In the example corpus, emacs often appears in combinations such as: emacs lisp, gnu emacs, of emacs.

Context around Emacs

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

gnu 2× running 1× write 1× extend 1× example 1× standard 1× gosling 1× behind 1×

Often after:

lisp 13× w3m 1× text 1× session 1× commonly 1× buffer 1× extension 1× init 1× gosmacs 1× manual 1×

Sentence patterns with Emacs

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and extend emacs 1× by the emacs text editor 1× called gosling emacs gosmacs 1× can make emacs lisp code 1× characteristic of emacs lisp is 1× commonly write emacs lisp code 1× distributed with emacs is loaded 1× done in emacs lisp only 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a buffer is 1× a pictorial version 1× a prominent characteristic 1× also the lexical 1× byte code byte 1× emacs developers write 1×

Common sentence endings:

a metal ball 1× a text document 1× an emacs buffer 1× and extend emacs 1× default see below 1× emacs lisp module 1×

Words around Emacs

Just before it in the word index:

emaciation 2 emaciated 56 emaar 13 ema 87 em 665 elzy 4

Just after it in the word index:

emad 8 emadi 10 emadlangeni 2 emael 2 emagic 2 emagine 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abakaliki 59 abbasi 59 absolve 59 acceptability 59 acetic 59 actuators 59

Corpus analysis for Emacs

  • In this selection, "emacs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, gnu, running, write, lisp, w3m and text stand out and add context to how "emacs" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and extend emacs and by the emacs text editor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "emacs" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and absolve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with emacs

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Emacs has a cult following. (5 words)

Byte code "Byte-compilation" can make Emacs Lisp code faster. (10 words)

Users of Emacs commonly write Emacs Lisp code to customize and extend Emacs. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

When I see "Professional Nerd Rage Manufacturer" my first thought is of one guy bringing a VI manual to a fight and another guy bring what would normally be a wrecking ball machine to the fight but it's chained to an EMACs manual instead of a metal ball. (49 words)

Other options include the "Customize" feature that's been in GNU Emacs since version 20. Itself written in Emacs Lisp, Customize provides a set of preferences pages allowing the user to set options and preview their effect in the running Emacs session. (42 words)

Example To understand the logic behind Emacs Lisp, it is important to remember that there is an emphasis on providing data structures and features specific to making a versatile text editor over implementing a general-purpose programming language. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

In Emacs w3m is also used by the Emacs text editor via the w3m.el Emacs Lisp module.

Other options include the "Customize" feature that's been in GNU Emacs since version 20. Itself written in Emacs Lisp, Customize provides a set of preferences pages allowing the user to set options and preview their effect in the running Emacs session.

Users of Emacs commonly write Emacs Lisp code to customize and extend Emacs.

For example, Emacs Lisp cannot easily read a file a line at a time the entire file must be read into an Emacs buffer.

Here follows a simple example of an Emacs extension written in Emacs Lisp.

However, rendering of web pages isn't done in Emacs Lisp ; only final display is handled in Emacs Lisp with the rendering done by the w3m application.

If the code is saved into an Emacs init file, then Emacs will load the extension the next time it starts.

The standard Emacs Lisp code distributed with Emacs is loaded as bytecode, although the matching source files are usually provided for the user's reference as well.

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While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs (Gosmacs).

When I see "Professional Nerd Rage Manufacturer" my first thought is of one guy bringing a VI manual to a fight and another guy bring what would normally be a wrecking ball machine to the fight but it's chained to an EMACs manual instead of a metal ball.

Emacs has a cult following.

A buffer is a region of text loaded into Emacs' memory (possibly from a file) which can be saved into a text document.

Also, the lexical-let macro in the "cl" package does provide effective lexical scope to Emacs Lisp programmers, but while `cl' is widely used, lexical-let is rarely used.

A pictorial version of this puzzle is programmed into the emacs editor, accessed by typing M-x hanoi.

A prominent characteristic of Emacs Lisp is in its use of dynamic rather than lexical scope by default (see below).

Byte code "Byte-compilation" can make Emacs Lisp code faster.

Emacs developers write certain functions in C. These are "primitives", also known as "built-in functions" or "subrs".

Emacs Lisp is also referred to as Elisp, although there is also an older, unrelated Lisp dialect with that name.

Example To understand the logic behind Emacs Lisp, it is important to remember that there is an emphasis on providing data structures and features specific to making a versatile text editor over implementing a general-purpose programming language.

For example, Flycheck is a modern on-the-fly syntax checking extension for GNU Emacs 24 with support for 39 languages.

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Common combinations with emacs

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "emacs" in a sentence?
An example: "In Emacs w3m is also used by the Emacs text editor via the w3m.el Emacs Lisp module." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "emacs" from authentic English texts.
What does "emacs" mean?
Emacs means: A particular visual or WYSIWYG text editor (first written by Richard Stallman in 1975 but since reimplemented by others in several distinct versions), distinguished by its use of control characters as editing commands, by its lack of distinct "insert" and "edit" modes, and by its featurefulness and extensibility.
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