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Kill-9's Emacs things

Emacs (short for Editor MACroS) is a text editor1 made by some weird guy in the late 70s, and had too many implementations, such as Xemacs, Freemacs, µEmacs (microemacs). in 1984 (lmao), the GNU project stole rewrote the original Emacs code and the most used version of Emacs was born: GNU Emacs.

Installation

Windows users: https://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/GNU/emacs/windows/ (Or their nearly GNU mirror)

Mac Users: brew install emacs, I guess.

GNU/Linux users: probably the "emacs" package on your distro's repos

BSD users: pkg install emacs, probably? or check /usr/ports

Plan 9 users: What are you doing here?

Other versions of Emacs

As mencioned above, there are other versions of emacs, most of them are obsolete (Xemacs for example). µEmacs is the emacs version used by Linus Torvalds2 I do not recommend to use it. If you want to use a mini Emacs, you should try Zile or Jed. Zile is stupidly minimum while Jed has syntax highlighting and other kind of programs. But not close to real GNU Emacs.

You can find more about Emacs on the sidebar.

Highly work in progress, please contribute

  1. Some people call it a "operating system", but I prefer to call it a Emacs Lisp interpreter. ↩︎

  2. https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs ↩︎