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Emacs - Extensible, real-time editor

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.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.3.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
Version 21.3 (stable) released on 2003-03-19
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
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/
Support contacts

Announce List
Announce Newsgnu.emacs.annouce
Help List<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
Help Newsgnu.emacs.help
Developer List<gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org>; <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Developer Newsgnu.emacs.sources
Bug List<bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs login :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=40
Interfacesterminal, X Window System
Programsmovemail, fakemail, hexl, etags, ctags, ebrowse (Emacs 21), emacsclient, emacsserver
Source languagesC, Lisp

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-25
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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