What happens when you combine the most advanced, self-documenting,
customizable, extensible real-time display editor, Emacs, with nethack, the most elaborate role-playing environment ever invented?
You get the most advanced, elaborate, self-documenting,
customizable, extensible, role-playing environment in the world!
- 2025-09-28: Work on nethack-el continues as a fork on github by George Huebner.
- 2005-02-27: After a short dry spell, we've got a new version:
Nethack-el 0.9.5. Changes include support for Slash'EM 0.0.7e7 and
nethack 3.4.3, support for connecting to a nethack-el server, and bug
fixes.
- Customizable keys
- Customizable colors
- Macros
- Event hooks
- All the beauty that comes with Emacs
- Play on remote nethack-el servers
If you need help getting nethack-el going or you're just interested
in exchanging ideas and giving us praise, drop by #nethack-el
on irc.libera.chat.
There is a development mailing list for nethack-el:
nethack-el-devel@nongnu.org
It was for the general discussion of nethack-el but it is no longer active.
Here is a typical nethack-el session in all its glory:
Ryan Yeske (rcyeske [at] gmail.com) and Shawn Betts (sabetts [at] gmail.com)
are the creators of nethack-el.
This page is Copyright (C) 2003-2025 Shawn Betts and Ryan Yeske.
