GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is one of the two most popular versions of Emacs (see also XEmacs). The GNU Emacs manual describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."

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Since so much of the user interface of GNU Emacs and XEmacs is the same, a combined introduction is available in Emacs.

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GNU Emacs is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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The source code and binaries are available via FTP from the GNU project website (see below). They are also widely available from other sites on the Internet. Vendors of Unices, both free and proprietary, frequently provide Emacs bundled with the operating system.

Emacs: :This article is about the text editor. For the Apple Macintosh computer model, see eMac....

XEmacs: XEmacs is a text editor derived from GNU Emacs. It capitalises on good GUI support. XEmacs runs on almost any Unix-like operating system (inside X or on a text terminal), as well as on Microsoft Windows. It also runs on Mac OS X with an X server, and a native Carbon version is in alpha test....

Free software: :This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. For other uses, see free software (disambiguation)....

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