Gentoo Emacs/Elisp Project

1.  Project Description

The Gentoo Emacs Project handles Emacs and Elisp related packages in the Gentoo package tree. This includes GNU Emacs, XEmacs and related editors, manuals and additional packages.

2.  Project Goals

Our goal is to provide the best Emacs experience around. Forget any other distribution!

3.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4.  Herds

The Emacs project maintains the following herds:

5.  The Emacs Overlay

The Emacs Overlay holds packages to be tested separately and provides a playground for both GNU Emacs and XEmacs. The Wiki also collects some information, mainly intended for the developers themselves, and some of it of temporary nature.

6.  GNU Emacs documentation

Our developer information summarises what must be known when maintaining Emacs and its packages in Gentoo. Even maintainers of packages with optional Emacs support (by USE=emacs) can learn something about the internal goings.

A devmanual section contains hints how you can configure your Emacs as Gentoo developer.

Using Emacs XFT support shows you how to enable and use antialiased fonts for Emacs.

7.  XEmacs documentation

Documentation on XEmacs on Gentoo is available. It contains information for users to explain how Gentoo deals with some aspects of XEmacs, and information and support scripts for Gentoo developers.

8.  Other Emacs implementations

Other Emacs-like editors are also available in Gentoo, in addition to GNU Emacs and XEmacs.