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.

Related Topics:
GNU Emacs - GUI - Unix-like - Operating system - X - Microsoft Windows - Mac OS X - Carbon

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Like GNU Emacs, XEmacs is free software available under the GNU General Public License. When speaking about an unspecified version of GNU Emacs/XEmacs, the generic lowercase term emacs (plural emacsen) is used.

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Free software - GNU General Public License

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XEmacs was created in 1991 as Lucid Emacs by Lucid Inc. to support their proprietary Energize environment. Lucid forked the code, developing and maintaining their own version of Emacs, because they were dissatisfied with the maintenance of the original Emacs. Their version of Emacs was very popular, so when Lucid went out of business in 1994, the code was picked up by another development team, and maintained under its current name, "XEmacs".

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1991 - Fork - 1994

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