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While Vim and Emacs are the heavyweights, they're not the only game in text editor town. Learn tips for making the most of those text editing applications, as well as some of the other options worth considering.

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5 ways to use Emacs as your RPG dashboard

Emacs is a flexible way to organize and manage your tabletop role-playing games.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 31 Jan 2020 11 comments
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Send email and check your calendar with Emacs

Manage your email and view your schedule with the Emacs text editor in the eighteenth in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.
Kevin Sonney 28 Jan 2020 3 comments
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6 things you should be doing with Emacs

Here are six things you may not have realized you could do with Emacs. Then, get our new cheat sheet to get the most out of Emacs.
Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) 23 Jan 2020
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Emacs for Vim users: Getting started with the Spacemacs text editor

Spacemacs offers all the power of Emacs combined with the keystroke commands and functionality you are used to in Vim.
Kevin Sonney 18 Dec 2019
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How to change colors and themes in Vim

Style your command line Vim with your favorite color scheme.
Rashan Smith (Red Hat) 09 Dec 2019
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Getting started with Vim: The basics

Learn to use Vim enough to get by at work or for a new project.
Bryant Son (Red Hat, Correspondent) 25 Mar 2019 6 comments
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Getting started with the Geany text editor

Geany is a light and swift text editor with IDE features.
James Mawson 06 Mar 2019 14 comments
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Getting started with Vim visual mode

Visual mode makes it easier to highlight and manipulate text in Vim.
Susan Lauber 06 Feb 2019 2 comments

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