December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
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Chapter 10: OSes, Text Editors, and Word Processors
methods are provided by VietPad, and it naturally uses Unicode to represent Vietnamese
text.
Emacs and GNU Emacs
Described in this section are several freely available variants of Emacs and GNU Emacs.
Emacs is the name of a text editor that has been ported to many OSes, and GNU Emacs
is the most widely used version. If you have more than one working environment, you
can use the soware described in this section to have similar text-editing features and
functionality across them.
All of these Emacs and GNU Emacs variants depend on a CJKV-capable environment for
displaying CJKV characters on the screen—they handle only the internal manipulation of
CJKV character codes, whether they are based on a Unicode encoding form or a legacy
encoding method.
Most variants of Emacs or GNU Emacs can be extensively customized by the user. In fact,
Emacs or GNU Emacs can also constitute a complete working environment, at least on
most Unix systems—email can be sent and received, source code can be compiled, and so
on. Customizing is usually done by adding entries to its conguration le called .emacs
(“dot” emacs) or by writing Emacs LISP programs. Extensive tutorials are also included in
the complete GNU Emacs distribution.
ere are a large number of Emacs and GNU Emacs variants available for a number of
OSes. While I describe only the most ...
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