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Emacs
Component programs movemail,fakemail,hexl,etags,ctags,ebrowse,emacsclient  +
Computer languages C,Lisp  +
Documentation note User manual included; User tutorial includ User manual included; User tutorial included; User FAQ available from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text Printed user reference manual available from http://www.gnupress.org/ or 1-617-542-5942; Printed developer Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming manual available from http://www.gnupress.org/ or 1-617-542-5942; Printed user Emacs Lisp reference manual available from http://www.gnupress.org/ or 1-617-542-594; Printed user reference card available from http://www.gnupress.org/ Online manual available in HTML format from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/
Full description Extraordinarily powerful text editor with Extraordinarily powerful text editor with additional features including content sensitive major modes, complete online documentation, highly extensible through Lisp, support for many languages and their scripts through its multilingual extension, and a large number of other extensions available either separately or with the GNU Emacs distribution. Runs on many different operating systems regardless of machine. It offers true Lisp, smoothly integrated into the editor, for writing extensions and provides an interface to the X windows system. ides an interface to the X windows system.
GNU package identifier emacs  +
Homepage URL http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html  +
Interface console  + , x-window-system  +
Is GNU true  +
Keywords documentation  + , emacs  + , editor  + , writing  + , editing  + , Lisp  + , word processing  +
Last review by Janet Casey +
Last review date 28 June 2010  +
License GPLv3orlater +
License verified by Kelly Hopkins  +
License verified date 18 May 2010  +
Name Emacs  +
Real name Chong Yidong  + , Stephan Monnier  +
Related projects DVC for Emacs + , ERC + , Emacs Common Lisp + , Flyspell.el + , Jade Editor + , Jove + , Lahelper + , Le editor + , Led + , Minimum Profit + , Moleskine + , NEdit + , Nonsense + , Textutils + , The Insidious Big Brother Database + , Cfs-el + , E3 + , Emacspeak + , Lpe + , Nvi + , Ved + , Emacs Wiki + , VM + , Vim + , MH-E + , RefTeX +
Resource URL mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org  + , mailto:gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org  + , mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org  + , mailto:info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org  + , gnu.emacs.announce  + , gnu.emacs.help  + , gnu.emacs.sources  +
Resource audience Bug Tracking  + , Developer  + , Support  + , Help  +
Resource kind E-mail  + , Newsgroup  +
Revisionid 14,397  +
Revisiontimestamp 2 May 2012 23:02:55  +
Revisionuser Kberry +
Role Maintainer  +
Short description Extensible, real-time editor  +
Software-development program-editor  +
Submitted by Database conversion +
Submitted date 1 April 2011  +
Text-creation editor  +
Use software-development  + , text-creation  +
User level none  +
Version date 28 January 2012  +
Version download http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/  +
Version identifier 23.4  +
Version status stable  +
Works-with text  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 25 May 2012 00:33:29  +
Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. Entry  +
EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. cyd@stupidchicken.com  + , monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA  +
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Emacs#11 + Has featured
Emacs#1 + License of
Emacs#2 + , Emacs#3 + Person of
Cfs-el + , DVC for Emacs + , E3 + , ERC + , Emacs Common Lisp + , Emacs Wiki + , Emacspeak + , Flyspell.el + , Jade Editor + , Jove + , Lahelper + , Le editor + , Led + , Lpe + , MH-E + , Minimum Profit + , Moleskine + , NEdit + , Nonsense + , Nvi + Related projects
Emacs#10 + , Emacs#4 + , Emacs#5 + , Emacs#6 + , Emacs#7 + , Emacs#8 + , Emacs#9 + Resource of
 

 

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