emacs
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emacs - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
Emacs
GNU Emacs
<text, tool> /ee'maks/ (Editing MACroS, or Extensible MACro
System, GNU Emacs) A popular screen editor for Unix and
most other operating systems.
Emacs is distributed by the Free Software Foundation and was
Richard Stallman's first step in the GNU project. Emacs
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
levels are programmed in Emacs Lisp.
Emacs has an entire Lisp system inside it. It was
originally written in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab
. AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced,
self-documenting, customisable, extensible real-time display
editor".
It includes facilities to view directories, run compilation
subprocesses and send and receive electronic mail and
Usenet news (GNUS). W3 is a web browser, the
ange-ftp package provides transparent access to files on
remote FTP servers. Calc is a calculator and symbolic mathematics
package. There are "modes" provided to assist in
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
tube time inside Emacs.
GNU Emacs is available for Unix, VMS, GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MS Windows, MS-DOS, and
other systems. Emacs has been re-implemented more than 30
times. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA Emacs, UniPress
Emacs, Montgomery Emacs, and XEmacs. Jove, epsilon, and
MicroEmacs are limited look-alikes.
Some Emacs versions running under window managers iconify as
an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one
feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some
hackers find Emacs too heavyweight and baroque for their
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
Storage", and "Emacs Makes A Computer Slow" (see recursive acronym
). See also vi.
Latest version: 20.6, as of 2000-05-11. 21.1 (RSN) adds a
new redisplay engine with support for proportional text,
images, toolbars, tool tips, toolkit scroll bars, and a
mouse-sensitive mode line.
FTP from your nearest GNU archive site.
E-mail: (bug reports only) <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>.
Usenet newsgroups: news:gnu.emacs.help,
news:gnu.emacs.bug, news:alt.religion.emacs,
news:gnu.emacs.sources, news:gnu.emacs.announce.
[Jargon File]
(1997-02-04)
emacs - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
EMACS
/ee'maks/, n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a
programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it. It was
originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the
MIT AI lab; AI Memo 554 described it as "an advanced,
self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor".
It has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various
hackers, and versions exist that run under most major operating
systems. Perhaps the most widely used version, also written by
Stallman and now called "GNU EMACS" or GNUMACS, runs principally
under Unix. (Its close relative XEmacs is the second most popular
version.) It includes facilities to run compilation subprocesses and
send and receive mail or news; many hackers spend up to 80% of their
tube time inside it. Other variants include GOSMACS, CCA EMACS,
UniPress EMACS, Montgomery EMACS, jove, epsilon, and MicroEMACS.
(Though we use the original all-caps spelling here, it is nowadays
very commonly `Emacs'.) Some EMACS versions running under window
managers iconify as an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest
the one feature the editor does not (yet) include. Indeed, some
hackers find EMACS too heavyweight and baroque for their 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' (from
when that was a lot of core), `Eventually malloc()s All Computer
Storage', and `EMACS Makes A Computer Slow' (see recursive acronym
).
See also vi.
emacs - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :
EMACS
Editing MACroS (GNU)
EMACS
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (slang, EMACS)
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