About Emacs
Like vi, Emacs is found on most Linux systems which makes it easy for you to edit a page even if you don't have your standard software. Emacs is a lot more complicated than vi and so offers more features, but I find it harder to use. Feature highlights: XML support, scripting support, advanced CSS support, and a built-in validator, as well as color coded HTML editing.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 28, 2011.
Emacs Latest Review
Emacs Version: 23.3
Score: 135.5
Percent: 40%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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Emacs Technical Details
Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh Linux or UNIX
Emacs Features
- Text editor
- Color coding
- Search and replace
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Can edit JavaScript
- Additional CSS assistance
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Version control
- Customizable or extendable
- Upgrade discounts or freeware
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
- JSON, spell check, and code snippets with plugins
What’s Missing from Emacs
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- Page preview
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Mobile device preview
- Mobile scripts, functions, or links
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Write XHTML documents
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Special character tools
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- Can edit CSS
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Database connectivity
- Google sitemaps
- Spell checking
- Save snippets of code
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Free scripts
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- Ecommerce tools
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
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