

XEmacs development is inactive.Įmacs is, along with vi, one of the two main contenders in the traditional editor wars of Unix culture. GNU Emacs and XEmacs use similar Lisp dialects and are, for the most part, compatible with each other. XEmacs is a variant that branched from GNU Emacs in 1991. The most popular, and most ported, version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, which was created by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project. It was inspired by the ideas of the TECO-macro editors TECMAC and TMACS. as a set of Editor MACroS for the TECO editor. The original EMACS was written in 1976 by David A. Extensions have been written to, among other things, manage files, remote access, e-mail, outlines, multimedia, git integration, and RSS feeds, as well as implementations of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake, Dunnet, and Tetris. Implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Įmacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on its direct descendant, GNU Emacs, continues actively as of 2022.
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The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Various free/libre software developers, including volunteers and commercial developersĮmacs / ˈ iː m æ k s/ or EMACS ( Editor MACroS) is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. Org-mode, Magit, and Dired buffers in GNU Emacs
