GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs (short for Editing Macros) is a text editor that is common on many UNIX-based operating systems.[3][4][5][6]
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| GNU Emacs 26.2 screenshot.png GNU Emacs 26.2 running on GNOME 3 | |
| Original author(s) | Richard Stallman |
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| Developer(s) | GNU Project |
| Initial release | 20 March 1985 |
| Stable release | 26.3 / 28 August 2019 |
| Preview release | 27.0.91 / 19 April 2020 |
| Written in | Emacs Lisp, C[1] |
| Operating system | Unix-like (GNU, Linux, macOS, BSDs, Solaris), Windows, MS-DOS[2] |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GPLv3+ |
| Website | www |
Emacs is primarily used by programmers.
Emacs is made powerful by Emacs Lisp, a built-in programming language that lets the user extend the capabilities of the editor.
A common Emacs joke is that all of the functions of the editor are crazy weird keystrokes (such as "control-meta-4 shift-left-P-semicolon-F1" to do something simple like cut and paste text). In reality, though, these keystrokes are relatively simple, though they can take some getting used to.
There is an Internet turf war between programmers that prefer Emacs and programmers that prefer Vim (or Vi),[7] another common text editor.
References
- ↑ "GNU Emacs", Analysis Summary, Open Hub
- ↑ "Emacs machines list".
- ↑ Cameron, D., Rosenblatt, B., Raymond, E., & Raymond, E. S. (1996). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
- ↑ Halme, H., & Heinänen, J. (1988). GNU Emacs as a dynamically extensible programming environment. Software: Practice and Experience, 18(10), 999-1009.
- ↑ Cameron, D., Elliott, J., Loy, M., Raymond, E. S., & Rosenblatt, B. (2005). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
- ↑ Schoonover, M. A., & Schoonover, S. (1991). GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc..
- ↑ Robbins, A., Hannah, E., & Lamb, L. (2008). Learning the vi and vim editors. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
