Windows users: <https://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/GNU/emacs/windows/> (Or their nearly GNU mirror)
-Mac Users: brew install Emacs, I guess.
+Mac Users: brew install emacs, I guess.
GNU/Linux users: probably the "emacs" package on your distro's repos
-BSD users: pkg install emacs, probably? or check /usr/ports
+BSD users:
+
+FreeBSD: Install off of ports tree or "pkg install emacs"
+
+OpenBSD: pkg_add emacs or ports tree
+
+NetBSD: pkgsrc or pkgin install emacs[^2]
Plan 9 users: What are you doing here?
As mentioned above, there are other versions of emacs, most of them
are obsolete (XEmacs for example). µEmacs is the emacs version used
-by Linus Torvalds[^2] I do not recommend to use it. If you want to use
+by Linus Torvalds[^3] I do not recommend to use it. If you want to use
a mini Emacs, you should try [Zile](https://gnu.org/software/zile) or
[Jed](http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/). Zile is stupidly minimum while Jed
has syntax highlighting and other kind of programs. But not close to
# Information about Emacs
In Emacs, everything is an Emacs Lisp function, each keybinding, every
+
M-x function is written in Emacs Lisp, Emacs Lisp is a complete
programming language. So that's why you can see browsers inside Emacs.
-In this book, I'll write the name of the function in front of a
-keybinding. Because they're pretty self explanatory
+In this book, I'll write the name of the function in front of a keybinding. Because they're pretty self explanatory
+
**Highly work in progress, please [contribute](https://gitlab.com/qorg11/kill9)**
[^1]: Some people call it a "operating system", but I prefer to call it a Emacs Lisp interpreter.
-[^2]: <https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs>
+[^2]: This won't work if you don't have pkgin installed. If you don't, use pkg_add
+[^3]: <https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs>
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