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GNU Emacs

Name	GNU Emacs
Version	28.2 (Sep 2022)
Vendor	Free Software Foundation
Author
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.

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.

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+|Picture=Emacs.png
+|Name=GNU Emacs
+|Version=28.2 (Sep 2022)
+|Vendor=[[Free Software Foundation]]
+|Author=
+|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.
+==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: GNU Emacs 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 [https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/os2/ftp/emacs/ download]
+* May 1992: 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 [https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/os2/ftp/emacs/]
-* 1995: GNU Emacs 19.30
+* 1995: 19.30
-* May 1996: GNU Emacs 19.31
+* May 1996: 19.31
-* Aug 1996: GNU Emacs 19.33
+* Aug 1996: 19.33
-* Jul 1999: GNU Emacs 20.3.1
+* Jul 1999: 20.3.1
-* Latest OS/2 version: [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?sh=1&button=Search&key=emacs&stype=all&sort=type_name&dir=%2F v.20.6]
+* Nov 2000: 20.6 (OS/2 port by [[Jeremy Bowen]])
-* Latest version: 25.2 (2017)
-==Syntax highlighting==
+* 25.3 (Sep 2017)
-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.
+* 26.2 (Apr 2019)
-==License==
+==Publications==
-* Open source, currently released under the [[GNU GPL v3 License]], older versions released under the [[GNU GPL v2 License]] and the original was in the [[Public Domain]].
+* 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]]: ''[http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n8/emacs.htm EMACS IS the kitchen sink!]'' - OS/2 eZine 1996
 ==Links==
+* [http://home.snafu.de/ohei/emacs/emacs206-os2.html 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. {{FileLink|EMACS_Modula-2_1998-07-18.zip}}.
-[[Category:Open Source Software]]
+[[Category:Text editors]][[Category:GNU Software]]