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Early versions of GNU Emacs were numbered as "1.x.x," with the initial digit denoting the version of the C core. The "1" was dropped after version 1.12 as it was thought that the major number would never change, and thus the major version skipped from "1" to "13". A new third version number was added to represent changes made by user sites. [12]
Emacs (/ ˈ iː m æ k s / ⓘ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), [1] [2] [3] is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. [4] The manual for the most widely used variant, [5] GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". [6]
XEmacs is a graphical- and console-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows.XEmacs is a fork, based on a version of GNU Emacs from the late 1980s.
Latest stable version Latest release date Windows Macintosh Linux HxD: Yes No ... GNU Emacs: Yes Yes GPL-3.0-or-later: 29.1 [2] July 30, 2023: Yes Yes Yes FlexHex:
Latest release Programming language Cost ... Only in special DOS multi-user version 2 ... Emacs and Pico: pico uses most of Emacs's motion and deletion commands: ^F ...
Gosling Emacs (often shortened to "Gosmacs" or "gmacs") is a discontinued Emacs implementation written in 1981 by James Gosling in C. [1] Gosling initially allowed Gosling Emacs to be redistributed with no formal restrictions, as required by the "Emacs commune" since the 1970s, [2] only asking for a letter acknowledging his authorship. [3]
The Org Mode home page explains that "at its core, Org Mode is a simple outliner for note-taking and list management". [11] The Org system author Carsten Dominik explains that "Org Mode does outlining, note-taking, hyperlinks, spreadsheets, TODO lists, project planning, GTD, HTML and LaTeX authoring, all with plain text files in Emacs."
Magit (/ ˈ m æ d ʒ ɪ t / MA-jit or / ˈ m ʌ ɡ ɪ t / MUH-git [3]) is an interface to the Git version control system, available as a GNU Emacs package [4] [5] written in Emacs Lisp.It is available through the MELPA package repository, [6] on which it is the most-downloaded non-library package, with over 4.3 million downloads as of September 2024.