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Emacs

Extensible, customizable text editor with a massive ecosystem of packages

Development linuxmacoswindows C GPL-3.0

Description

Emacs is one of the oldest and most powerful text editors, a free long-standing software project with a huge amount of functionalities and extensions. Implemented and extendable with Emacs Lisp (E-Lisp), it serves as an editor, IDE, email client, organizer, and much more.

AI Summary

Highly extensible text editor and computing environment programmable with Emacs Lisp

Capabilities

  • + Edit text with powerful editing commands and macros
  • + Extend functionality with thousands of packages
  • + Serve as an IDE, email client, org-mode planner, and more
  • + Support virtually every programming language

Use When

  • You want a highly customizable and extensible editor
  • You need an all-in-one computing environment in the terminal

Avoid When

  • x You want a simple, easy-to-learn editor

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