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Extensible multi-platform programmers editor, uses a LISP subset as a macro and extension language. Very popular with certain types of *nix persons in particular and for a time in the 90's was the most commonly available text editor out there as far as porting to different operating systems was concerned, but interest in it has faded greatly in the last few years as editors and IDE's that take advantage of GUI's have become more powerful, the Emacs code has grown exponentially in size and the current developers of Emacs act more and more dogmatic and entrenched. This has come to a point where there is no longer a current version for OS/2 and unlikely that anyone is interested in updating it.

Please note capitalisation of name, EMACS is a class of editors with similar basic functions and UI, and alongside vi part of the "Catholic" branch of text editors also referred to as "West Coast Editors" or "West Coast Orthodox". Emacs on the other hand is a specific version originally developed by James Gosling in the early 80's that was a clone of Multics Emacs and released as a Public Domain software, that was later hijacked by the GNU Foundation and released under their own license. Specific features like the use of a LISP subset and the control regime are Emacs features that are taken directly from Multics Emacs and only show up Emacs and its forks and other ME clones, but are by no means a feature of EMACS editors in general. The reason for using LISP as a macro language in Multics Emacs is really simple, it was written in LISP.

Version

Latest OS/2 version: v.20.6
Latest version: 24.4

Language Support

English - Built in.

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.

License

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.

Links

Emacs homepage
Setup help for the OS/2 2.06 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

Author

James Gosling (Original author)
GNU Foundation (Current maintainer)
Jeremy Bowen (OS/2 port)

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 Extensible multi-platform programmers editor, uses a [[LISP]] subset as a macro and extension language. Very popular with certain types of *nix persons in particular and for a time in the 90's was the most commonly available text editor out there as far as porting to different operating systems was concerned, but interest in it has faded greatly in the last few years as editors and IDE's that take advantage of GUI's have become more powerful, the Emacs code has grown exponentially in size and the current developers of Emacs act more and more dogmatic and entrenched. This has come to a point where there is no longer a current version for OS/2 and unlikely that anyone is interested in updating it.
-Please note capitalisation of name, '''EMACS''' is a class of editors with similar basic functions and UI, and alongside [[vi]] part of the "Catholic" branch of text editors also referred to as "West Coast Editors" or "West Coast Orthodox". '''Emacs''' on the other hand is a specific version originally developed by James Gosling in the early 80's that was a clone of '''Multics Emacs''' and released as a [[Public Domain]] software, that was later hijacked by the [[GNU Foundation]] and released under their own license. Specific features like the use of a [[LISP]] subset and the control regime are Emacs features that are taken directly from Multics Emacs and only show up Emacs and its forks and other ME clones, but are by no means a feature of EMACS editors in general. The reason for using LISP in Multics Emacs is really simple, it was written in LISP.
+Please note capitalisation of name, '''EMACS''' is a class of editors with similar basic functions and UI, and alongside [[vi]] part of the "Catholic" branch of text editors also referred to as "West Coast Editors" or "West Coast Orthodox". '''Emacs''' on the other hand is a specific version originally developed by James Gosling in the early 80's that was a clone of '''Multics Emacs''' and released as a [[Public Domain]] software, that was later hijacked by the [[GNU Foundation]] and released under their own license. Specific features like the use of a [[LISP]] subset and the control regime are Emacs features that are taken directly from Multics Emacs and only show up Emacs and its forks and other ME clones, but are by no means a feature of EMACS editors in general. The reason for using LISP as a macro language in Multics Emacs is really simple, it was written in LISP.
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