Everything about Emacs

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: EmacsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Emacs as a Tool for Modern ScienceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Learning GNU EmacsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: RALEE—RNA ALignment Editor in EmacsCited 110 times
5. Go sideways: GNU EmacsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Emacs LispA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• RALEE—RNA ALignment Editor in Emacs

  Sam Griffiths-Jones · 2004 · Bioinformatics · 110 citations

• Low-symmetry distortions in Extended Metal Atom Chains (EMACs): Origins and consequences for electron transport

  Vihar P. Georgiev, P.J. Mohan, Daniel DeBrincat · 2013 · Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 81 citations

• Extended metal atom chains (EMACs) of five chromium or cobalt atoms: Symmetrical or unsymmetrical?

  John F. Berry, F. Albert Cotton, Christopher S. Fewox · 2004 · Dalton Transactions · 55 citations

• A ligand design with a modified naphthyridylamide for achieving the longest EMACs: the 1st single-molecule conductance of an undeca-nickel metal string

  Po-Jung Chen, Marc Sigrist, Er-Chien Horng · 2017 · Chemical Communications · 48 citations

• EMACS the extensible, customizable self-documenting display editor

  Richard M. Stallman · 1981 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 32 citations

• Redox Modification of EMACs Through the Tuning of Ligands: Heptametal(II) Complexes of Pyrazine‐Modulated Oligo‐α‐pyridylamido Ligands

  Rayyat Huseyn Ismayilov, Wen‐Zhen Wang, Gene‐Hsiang Lee · 2009 · European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry · 27 citations

• Stabilization of Long Cationic EMACs by Reduction or Loss of One Metal Ion

  Rayyat H. Ismayilov, Wen‐Zhen Wang, Rui‐Ren Wang · 2008 · European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry · 24 citations

• Emacs Speaks Statistics: A Multiplatform, Multipackage Development Environment for Statistical Analysis

  A. J Rossini, Richard M Heiberger, Rodney A Sparapani · 2004 · Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics · 15 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Emacs as a Tool for Modern Science

  Timothy Johnson · 2022 · Johnson Matthey Technology Review · 1 citations

• Exploring the effect of axial ligands, solvation, and redox on structure and inter-metal communication in Fe 3 -EMACs

  Mohammed Obies · 2024 · New Journal of Chemistry · 1 citations

• Simplifying LaTeX with ORG-mode in Emacs

  Emmanuele F. Somma · 2023 · TUGboat · 0 citations

• A redshift of z = 3.20 for the bright arc in eMACS J2229.9-0808

  Ian Smail, Johan Richard, Harald Ebeling · 2026 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 0 citations

• IBC Oxford Oral Abstract 16 - Endoscopic magnetic appetite control system (EMACS): an innovative approach to appetite modulation

  Shahriar Sedghi, Sheng-Chiang Lee, Vivek Kumbhari · 2026 · British Journal of Surgery · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Learning GNU EmacsDebra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt · 1991
• Debugging with GDBRichard Stallman, Cygnus Solutions · 1988
• GNU Emacs manualRichard Stallman · 1986
• The Craft of Text EditingCraig A. Finseth · 1991
• GNU makeRichard Stallman · 1993
• The Man in the Cat-Hair SuitWilliam R. Greene · 2011
• Programming for Computations - MATLAB/OctaveSvein Linge, Hans Petter Langtangen · 2016
• GNU EmacsDebra Cameron · 1998

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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