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GNU Emacs
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GNU Emacs is a free software text editor. It was created by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs editor developed for Unix operating systems. GNU Emacs has been a central component of the GNU project and a flagship project of the free software movement.[4][5] Its tag line is "the extensible self-documenting text editor."[6]
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![]() GNU Emacs 26.2 running on GNOME 3 | |
Original author(s) | Richard Stallman |
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Developer(s) | GNU Project |
Initial release | 20 March 1985; 39 years ago (1985-03-20) |
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Written in | Emacs Lisp, C[2] |
Operating system | Unix-like (GNU, Linux, macOS, BSDs, Solaris), Windows, MS-DOS[3] |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Available in | English |
Type | Text editor |
License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
Website | www |
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