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

Packages to be tested separately are held in an Overlay which provide a playground for both GNU Emacs and XEmacs. The Wiki there also collects some information, important to the Emacs developers, while only of temporary importance.

6.  GNU Emacs documentation

If you are interested what is needed to know when maintaining Emacs and its packages in Gentoo, consult our developer information. Even maintainers of packages with optional Emacs support (by USE=emacs) can learn something about the internal goings.

The devmanual has a section with some 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

In addition to GNU Emacs and XEmacs, there are other Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo.