What is Emacs?

Emacs is not just an editor. It's an editor construction kit that comes with a half-finished editor. And that's one of the features that makes it by far the best text editor in the world. The other feature is that you program it in Lisp. O.K., so Elisp (Emacs's Lisp) is an antiquated dynamically scoped Lisp, but it's still a real Lisp with Lisp macros and all.

I'm using Ubuntu Linux and I've installed moto4lin using sudo apt-get install moto4lin. I have a Razr (couldn't tell you the model for the life of me, but it's not as wide as the really high-end model) that Tracy gave me for X-mas.

Note: These instructions are for installing Ubuntu 7.10 on the ML3109. Installing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is much easier and requires a special tweak for the wireless only.