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|Name=GNU Emacs
|Short description=Extensible, real-time editor
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|Short description=The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor.
|Full description=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.
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|Full description='''Emacs''' is an extensible and highly customizable text editor. It is based on an Emacs Lisp interpreter with extensions for text editing. Emacs has been extended in essentially all areas of computing, giving rise to a vast array of packages supporting, e.g., email, IRC and XMPP messaging, spreadsheets, remote server editing, and much more. Emacs includes extensive documentation on all aspects of the system, from basic editing to writing large Lisp programs. It has full Unicode support for nearly all human languages.<br><br>This is a GNU package.
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|Version download=https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-29.3.tar.gz
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|Is GNU=Yes
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|GNU package identifier=emacs
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|Documentation note=The Emacs manual is an excellent resource for learning about Emacs; you can read it from within Emacs by typing <code>C-h r</code>. See also the [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/ GNU Emacs Manuals Online] page.
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=== How to Report Bugs Effectively ===
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if you encounter problems building or using Emacs, send a report to [mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>] with full details (if possible, use <code>M-x report-emacs-bug</code>).
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=== See also ===
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* [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ A Guided Tour of Emacs]
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|Donate=https://my.fsf.org/donate/
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|Related projects=gnustandards,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
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|Keywords=documentation, emacs, editor, writing, editing,Lisp,word processing
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
 
|Submitted by=Database conversion
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
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|Submitted date=2011/04/01
|Version identifier=22.1
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|User level=beginner
|Version date=2007-06-02
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|Component programs=movemail, fakemail, hexl, etags, ctags, ebrowse, emacsclient
|Version status=stable
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|Paid support=https://www.fsf.org/resources/service/
|Version download=http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz
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|License verified date=2008-05-21
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|Version comment=22.1 stable released 2007-06-02,
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|License=GPLv3orlater
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|License copyright=Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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|License verified date=2024-03-28
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|Is High Priority Project=No
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|VCS checkout command=git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
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|Decommissioned or Obsolete=No
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|IRC general=irc://irc.libera.chat/emacs
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|Version identifier=29.3
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|Version date=2024-03-24
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|Version status=stable
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|Last review by=Genium
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|Last review date=2024-03-28
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|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=Yes
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GNU Emacs

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor.

Emacs is an extensible and highly customizable text editor. It is based on an Emacs Lisp interpreter with extensions for text editing. Emacs has been extended in essentially all areas of computing, giving rise to a vast array of packages supporting, e.g., email, IRC and XMPP messaging, spreadsheets, remote server editing, and much more. Emacs includes extensive documentation on all aspects of the system, from basic editing to writing large Lisp programs. It has full Unicode support for nearly all human languages.

This is a GNU package.

"IRC general" IRC general channel
irc://irc.libera.chat/emacs





Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

28 March 2024




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Lars Ingebrigtsen co-maintainer
Eli Zaretskii co-maintainer
Nicolas Petton co-maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
SavannahVCS Repository Webviewhttps://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-buildstatus/
Emacs-devel Info PageMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel/
WikidataGeneralhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252773
bug-gnu-emacs Info PageMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-commit/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/
SavannahDeveloperhttps://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows/
FTPDownloadhttps://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
DebianDeveloperhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs
Emacs Lisp Package ArchiveGeneralhttps://elpa.gnu.org/
FTPDownloadhttps://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
Emacs newsMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-elpa-diffs/
Emacs Lisp Package ArchiveGeneralhttps://elpa.nongnu.org/
GNU Emacs Release HistoryDeveloperhttps://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html
GNU bug report logsBug Trackinghttps://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs
Emacs newsGeneralhttps://sachachua.com/blog/category/geek/emacs/emacs-news/
Generalhttps://www.emacswiki.org
SavannahVCS Repository Webviewhttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
FTPDownloadhttps://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi/
FTPDownloadhttps://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/
help-gnu-emacs Info PageMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs/
Emacs-bug-tracker Info PageMailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bug-tracker/
SavannahVCS Repository Webviewhttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-diffs/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode/


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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 28 March 2024.




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