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Is Emacs a IDE?
Emacs is what it is regardless of whether or not we call it an IDE (or fingdop, for that matter). Sometimes it looks like an IDE, sometimes it looks like an operating system, sometimes it just looks like an editor. If you simply must feel like you’re using an IDE, fire up Eclipse; then there’ll be no doubt.
Why do people use vim over an IDE?
Vim is an excellent, powerful text-editor, but it isn’t a substitute for an IDE, and shouldn’t be! Eclipse is very good at its subset of IDE-specific things, and vim is very good at its subset of text-editing-specific things.
How to use org mode in Emacs latex stack?
I would highly recommend to read the org-mode manual for LaTeX exporting capabilities. It is very good: org-export-latex. org-mode for Emacs has the optional LaTeX customization by using this: #+LaTeX_HEADER: ewcommand\\myaddress {…}
Where do I put my templates in emacswiki?
The template.el system is a way of automating initial file-creation from templates with place-holder tags that are filled-in when the template is used. To use template.el, you place a series of template files in your ~/.templates directory, for example TEMPLATE.xml.tpl, README.tpl, Makefile.tpl.
When you create a new file, some file extension mappings are used to find the appropriate template, and the template.el tags are filled-in automatically (sometimes based on user prompts). For example, there are standard embedded tags like (>>>FILE<<<) or (>>>DATE<<<) that expand to the filename and the date, respectively.
How to change default packages in org mode?
Choosing the class for your org-file determines the packages that is used by a certain setup in your .emacs file. To change the settings of the org-class article you add this to your .emacs file (example): For customization of the default packages you use, you can do something like: which will add the amsmath package to all your classes.