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.
Since so much of the user interface of GNU Emacs and XEmacs is the same, a combined introduction is available in Emacs.
=Distribution=
GNU Emacs is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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 Unix systems, both free and proprietary, frequently provide Emacs bundled with the operating system.
GNU Emacs runs on a large number of platforms, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, most other variants of Unix, Mac OS 8/Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
=Development=
GNU Emacs is part of the GNU project, and is under active development. Several, but not all, of the developers are affiliated with the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
As of 2004, the latest release of GNU Emacs is version 21.4. Development takes place in a single CVS trunk, which is at version 22.0.50. The current maintainer is Richard Stallman.
Until and in the free software itselfan intellectual work with many copyrights and contributors.
=References=
*Stallman, Richard M. (2002). GNU Emacs Manual . 15th ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Free Software Foundation. ISBN 1-882114-85-X. *Rosenblatt, Bill; Raymond, Eric S.; Cameron, Debra. (1996). Learning GNU Emacs . 2nd ed. O Reilly & Associates. ISBN 1565921526. *Cameron, Debra; Elliott, James; Loy, Marc. (December 2004). Learning GNU Emacs , 3rd ed. O Reilly & Associates. ISBN 0596006489. *Glickstein, Bob. (April 1997). Writing GNU Emacs Extensions . O Reilly & Associates. ISBN 1-56592-261-1.
=External links=
*[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html The GNU Emacs homepage] including|
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