Emacs
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.
Please note capitalisation, EMACS is a class of editors with similar basic functions and UI, end 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 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