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GNU Emacs
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Name	GNU Emacs
Version	26.2 (2019)
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

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

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-==Versions==
+{{Software
-* May 1992: GNU Emacs 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 [https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/os2/ftp/emacs/ download]
+|Name=GNU Emacs
-* 1995: GNU Emacs 19.30
+|Version=26.2 (2019)
-* May 1996: GNU Emacs 19.31
+|Vendor=[[Free Software Foundation]]
-* Aug 1996: GNU Emacs 19.33
+|Author=
-* Jul 1999: GNU Emacs 20.3.1
+|Licence=GNU [[GPL v3]]
-* 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]
+|WWW=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
-* Latest version: 25.3 (Sep 2017)
+}}
+'''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.
-==Syntax highlighting==
+==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.
-==License==
+==Versions==
-* 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]].
+* May 1992: 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 [https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/os2/ftp/emacs/]
+* 1995: 19.30
+* May 1996: 19.31
+* Aug 1996: 19.33
+* Jul 1999: 20.3.1
+* Nov 2000: [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/os2/apps/editors/emacs 20.6] (OS/2 port by [[Jeremy Bowen]])
-==Authors==
+* 25.3 (Sep 2017)
-* [[Free Software Foundation]]
+* 26.2 (Apr 2019)
-* [[Jeremy Bowen]] (OS/2 port)
 ==Publications==
@@ Line 22: / Line 28: @@
 * 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!]'' - 1996 - From [[OS/2 eZine]]
+* [[Murray Todd Williams]]: ''[http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n8/emacs.htm EMACS IS the kitchen sink!]'' - OS/2 eZine 1996
 ==Links==
-* [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ GNU Emacs homepage]
+* [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
-* [http://home.snafu.de/ohei/emacs/emacs206-os2.html 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)
 * [ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/modula/m2emacs.zip Modula-2 editing support for OS/2 Emacs]
-[[Category:Text editors]][[Category:Open Source Software]]
+[[Category:Text editors]][[Category:GNU Software]]