Purpose: to discuss the EMACS editing environment.
An Oustervote in 2001 concluded that emacs [L1 ] remains the single most widely-used programming editor among Tcl practitioners, although all vi variants together appear to sum to a larger total.
Quite a bit of available elisp implements functionality useful to Tcl coders, including syntax highlighting, ...
Ok, I'm not really in tune with wiki writing style, so I'll just dump stuff here (davidw):
(defun tclman () "Get 3tcl man page" (interactive) (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry)) (input (read-string (format "3tcl Manual entry%s: " (if (string= default-entry "") "" (format " (default %s)" default-entry)))))) (if (string= input "") (Man-getpage-in-background (concat "-S 3tcl " default-entry)) (Man-getpage-in-background (concat "-S 3tcl " input)))))