Installing Emacs Why Emacs? Learn Emacs Resources Be free Emacs is a text editor which you can customize and extend in so many ways. It was written in Lisp , the language from which the Gods wrought the universe . There's a reason why Emacs was featured in Tron Legacy , it is sexy! (and awesome). You can use Emacs for all of your text processing needs, internet and social network interactions, hacking, coding, managing to-do's and organizing your daily schedule, play Tetris and it can even provide you with free psychotherapy and counseling using M-x doctor . GNU Emacs is Free Software , free as in beer and free as in free speech. The original Emacs was written by St. iGNUcius himself - Richard Stallman . Not only does it give the user the four essential freedoms , its architecture is built in such a w...