GNU Emacs

Versions

• May 1992: GNU Emacs 18.58.3 for OS/2 2.0 download
• 1995: GNU Emacs 19.30
• May 1996: GNU Emacs 19.31
• Aug 1996: GNU Emacs 19.33
• Jul 1999: GNU Emacs 20.3.1
• Latest OS/2 version: v.20.6
• Latest version: 25.3 (Sep 2017)

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.

Authors

• Free Software Foundation
• Jeremy Bowen (OS/2 port)

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! - 1996 - From OS/2 eZine

Links

• GNU 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