4 This book will teach you
7 2. To customize Emacs to your specific needs.
11 1. Teach you to program in Emacs lisp
12 2. Document third-party libraries which don't ship with Emacs or GNU
17 New Emacs users who are also non-programmers.
21 The latest stable release of Emacs as on the day of writing is Emacs
24 You can download the pre-build binaries from [[http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/][GNU FTP Archives]]. If you
25 are on Windows, you can download the binaries from [[http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/][Windows
32 You can submit a bug report with
35 M-x report-emacs-bug RET
40 The Emacs project has many [[https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group%3Demacs][mailing lists]]. You may wish to subscribe
41 to one or more of these mailing lists.
43 1. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs][Emacs news]]
44 2. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs][Emacs users]]
45 3. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel][Emacs developers]]
46 4. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs][Emacs bugs]]
47 5. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources][Emacs sources]]
49 See [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs project page]] for more information.
51 [[http://www.emacswiki.org/][Emacswiki]]
53 IRC: #emacs @ irc.freenode.net
55 * Contributing to Emacs
57 Emacs sources are maintained using Bazaar version control system. You
58 can obtain the version controlled source tree with
61 bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
64 You can also browse the source repository for one-off purposes using
65 the following URLs: [[http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files][Bzr Loggerhead]] or [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/][Cgit web interface]].
67 If you are a Git user, you can checkout the source tree using git as
71 git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
74 See [[http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit][for more information on using git]].
76 * Building Emacs from sources
78 If you are a developer or a user who is interested in testing out
79 Emacs trunk see [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs][instructions at Emacswiki]].