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GNU emacs

   GNU emacs is a powerful editor in the UNIX world. Emacs belongs to the GNU project of the Free Software Foundation and is available on all UNIX platforms.

Unlike most other editors, emacs is a complete working environment; you can start emacs in the morning, work all day and night and never leave it. It can be used to compile programs; for interactive work with the UNIX shell; and so on. Before windowing systems like X became popular emacs often served as a complete windowing environment.





Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995