Emacs: Difference between revisions

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Description

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 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 in size and the current developers of Emacs act more and more dogmatic and entrenched.

Please note capitalisation, 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 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 are Emacs features that only show up in it and its forks, but are by no means a feature of EMACS editors in general.

Version

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

Language Support

English - Built in.

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
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

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 ==Description==
-Extensible multi-platform programmers editor, uses a [[LISP]] subset as a macro and extension language. Very popular with certain types of *nix persons and for a time 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 in size and the current developers of Emacs more act more dogmatic and entrenched.
+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 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 in size and the current developers of Emacs act more and more dogmatic and entrenched.
 Please note capitalisation, 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 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 are Emacs features that only show up in it and its forks, but are by no means a feature of EMACS editors in general.