Emacs

Jul 20, 2023

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GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

The features of GNU Emacs include

  • content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types
  • complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users
  • full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts
  • powerful customizability, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface
  • a vast ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, even a psychotherapist, and more
  • a packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.


Checkout these related ports:
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  • Xmlcopyeditor - Fast validating XML editor
  • Xi-term - Terminal frontend for xi-editor
  • Xi-core - Modern editor backend written in Rust
  • Xed - Small but powerful text editor for GTK
  • Xcoral - Multiwindow mouse-based text editor for X
  • Wxhexeditor - Graphical hex editor for big files with x86 disassembly support
  • Wordgrinder - Simple Unicode-aware console and X11-based word processor
  • With-editor - Use the Emacsclient as the $$EDITOR of child processes
  • With-editor-devel - Use the Emacsclient as the $$EDITOR of child processes
  • Web-mode - Autonomous Emacs major-mode for editing web templates
  • Vscode - Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS")
  • Vis - Vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions