text, tool /ee'maks/ (Editing MACroS, or Extensible MACro
is extensible - it is easy to add new functions; customisable
- you can rebind keys, and modify the behaviour of existing
functions; self-documenting - there is extensive on-line,
context-sensitive help; and has a real-time "what you see is
what you get" display. Emacs is writen in
C and the higher
Emacs has an entire
Lisp system inside it. It was
originally written in
TECO under
ITS at the
MIT AIlab. AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced,
self-documenting, customisable, extensible real-time display
editor".
It includes facilities to view directories, run compilation
ange-ftp package provides transparent access to files on
editing most well-known programming languages. Most of these
extra functions are configured to load automatically on first
use, reducing start-up time and memory consumption. Many
hackers (including
Denis Howe) spend more than 80% of their
other systems. Emacs has been re-implemented more than 30
times. Other variants include
GOSMACS, CCA Emacs, UniPress
an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one
feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some
taste, and expand the name as "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift"
to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with
bucky bits. Other spoof expansions include "Eight Megabytes
And Constantly Swapping", "Eventually "malloc()'s All Computer
Latest version: 20.6, as of 2000-05-11. 21.1 (
RSN) adds a
mouse-sensitive mode line.
(1997-02-04)