GNU Emacs
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GNU Emacs | |
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Name | GNU Emacs |
Version | 28.2 (Sep 2022) |
Vendor | Free Software Foundation |
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Licence | GNU GPL v3 |
WWW | https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ |
GNU Emacs is an extensible and customizable text editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
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Features
- Syntax highlighting
Emacs traditionally does not support syntax highlighting, so you had to write your own mode for that to happen (mode is GNU speak for a filter), the version available for OS/2 used an older method to make this happen, so the tutorials on the net are not 100% applicable, but you can use the Modula-2 mode listed in the links section below as a model for your own mode. It is not as difficult as it may seem at first.
Versions
- May 1992: 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 [1]
- 1995: 19.30
- May 1996: 19.31
- Aug 1996: 19.33
- Jul 1999: 20.3.1
- Nov 2000: 20.6 (OS/2 port by Jeremy Bowen)
- 25.3 (Sep 2017)
- 26.2 (Apr 2019)
Publications
- Michael A. Schoonover; John S. Bowie; William R. Arnold: GNU Emacs: UNIX Text Editing and Processing - Addison-Wesley 1991, ISBN 0-201-56345-2
- Dennis Gentry: GNU Emacs Reference - Specialized Systems Consultants 1995, ISBN 0-916151-83-2
- Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric Raymond: Learning GNU Emacs - O'Reilly 1996, ISBN 1-56592-152-6
- Bob Glickstein: Writing GNU Emacs Extensions - O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-261-1
- Articles
- Murray Todd Williams: EMACS IS the kitchen sink! - OS/2 eZine 1996
Links
- Setup help for the OS/2 20.6 version also helps with the set-up of non-USA locales etc. - By Oliver Heidelbach
- ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/emacs (Emacs folder on Hobbes)
- Modula-2 editing support for OS/2 Emacs. EMACS_Modula-2_1998-07-18.zip.