How To Install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-with-editor in Fedora 36. emacs-with-editor is Use Emacsclient as the editor of child processes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36.

What is `emacs-with-editor`

With-Editor makes it possible to reliably use the Emacsclient as the editor of child processes.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-with-editor.

Install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-with-editor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-with-editor

Install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-with-editor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-with-editor

How To Uninstall emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-with-editor package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-with-editor

emacs-with-editor Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/emacs-with-editor
/usr/share/doc/emacs-with-editor/README.md
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/with-editor
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/with-editor/with-editor-autoloads.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/with-editor/with-editor.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/with-editor/with-editor.elc
/usr/share/info/with-editor.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-with-editor
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-with-editor/LICENSE

References

emacs-with-editor website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-with-editor on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).