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.
Our goal is to provide the best Emacs experience around. Forget any other distribution!
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| Christian Faulhammer | fauli | Developer ( Emacs maintainer ) |
| Hans de Graaff | graaff | Developer ( XEmacs maintainer ) |
| Ulrich Müller | ulm | Developer ( Emacs maintainer ) |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
The Emacs project maintains the following herds:
| Herd | Members | Description |
| emacs | fauli, ulm | GNU Emacs applications and Emacs Lisp add-ons |
| xemacs | graaff | XEmacs editor and the associated xemacs lisp packages |
The Emacs Overlay holds packages to be tested separately and provides a playground for both GNU Emacs and XEmacs. The Wiki there also collects some information, mainly intended for the developers themselves, and some of it of temporary nature.
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.
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.