Emacs
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Emacs denominates a class of powerful, extensible, self-documenting text editors. The original implementation is GNU Emacs, which is still updated today.
Available software
There are a number of implementations of Emacs, often lightweight versions, many of which are available in Gentoo. Some of these projects may be feature-complete, without recent releases.
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| e3 | app-editors/e3 | Very tiny editor in ASM with emacs, pico, wordstar, and vi keybindings. Heavily optimized for size and independent of libc or any other libraries. |
| EmACT | app-editors/emact | Fork of Conroy's MicroEmacs. Last release in 2009 (as of 2021). |
| Ersatz Emacs | app-editors/ersatz-emacs | Very minimal imitation of the famous GNU Emacs editor. Last release in 2006 (as of 2021). |
| fe | app-editors/fe | Small and easy to use folding editor with an emacs-like interface. Last release seems to be from 2011 (as of 2021). |
| GNU Emacs | app-editors/emacs | Powerful, extensible, self-documenting text editor released by the Free Software Foundation. Most popular version of Emacs. |
| Hemlock | dev-lisp/cmucl | Emacs-like editor implemented in Common Lisp with CMUCL, a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language. |
| Jasspa's MicroEmacs | app-editors/jasspa-microemacs | Emacs editor biased towards UNIX users with a small footprint. Last release in 2009 (as of 2021). |
| JED | app-editors/jed | Powerful editor with emulation of GNU Emacs, among others. Last release in 2009 (as of 2021). |
| JEmacs | dev-scheme/kawa | Re-implementation of Emacs, written in a mix of Java, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp that uses Kawa to compile Scheme and ELisp into Java bytecodes. |
| JOE | app-editors/joe | ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UNIX that has some of the key bindings and many of the powerful features of Emacs. |
| Jove | app-editors/jove | Compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-editor. No official release since 1996, but improvements and modifications have been published since. |
| µEmacs/PK | app-editors/uemacs-pk | Enhanced version of MicroEMACS. |
| mg | app-editors/mg | Small, fast, and portable editor for people who can't (or don't want to) run real Emacs for one reason or another. |
| Ng | app-editors/ng | Emacs like micro editor Ng, based on mg2a. Latest version is beta from 2003. |
| QEmacs | app-editors/qemacs | Very small but powerful text editor with an Emacs look and feel, and common features. Latest release seems to be from 2013 (as of 2021). |
| XEmacs | app-editors/xemacs | Highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. No longer maintained. |
| Zile | app-editors/zile | Text editor development kit that comes with an example implementation of a lightweight Emacs clone. |
Ebuild repository
The Emacs project runs an ebuild repository for GNU Emacs and XEmacs (see Project:Emacs/Overlay) which contains a number of packages including many VCS builds. To add the repository:
root #eselect repository enable emacsroot #emerge --sync emacsMany more Emacs related packages should now be available for installation.
See also
- Knowledge Base:Edit a configuration file
- Text editor — a program to create and edit text files.
External resources
- GNU Emacs Reference Card (PDF).
- Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years by Perry E. Metzger (video).