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Emacs

Emacs (/ˈiːmæks/ ⓘ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s…

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Emacs

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Triples301
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Bibliography · 58
Emacs → Adrienne, AIM-447, AIM-519A, An Introduction, April, Archived, Associates, Bill, Bob, Cambridge, Cambridge Massachusetts, Cameron, Chassel, Ciccarelli, Co, Craig, Customizable, Debra, December, Development
related to Early implementations · 33
Emacs → Barry Margolin, Bernard Greenberg, Daniel Weinreb, EINE, EINE Is Not EMACS, Emacs-like, GNU Emacs, Gosling Emacs, Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems, In, James Gosling, Java, Lab, Lisp, Lisp-like, Many, Mike McMahon, Mocklisp, Multics Emacs, Multics Lisp
related to Editors with Emacs emulation · 26
Emacs → Builder, Command, Control, Defaults, Delphi, Eclipse, Emacs-like, Embarcadero's RAD Studio IDE, Epsilon, GNOME Builder, GNU Readline, IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, It, JED, Joe's Own Editor, KornShell, MATLAB, Multi-Edit, One
related to history · 24
Emacs → AI Lab, By, Carl Mikkelsen, Control-R, Corrector, Fred Wright, He, Incompatible Timesharing System, ITS, MIT, MIT AI Lab, One, PDP-10, PDP-6, Richard Stallman, Stallman, Stanford AI Lab, TECO, Text Editor, This
related to Customizability and extensibility · 19
Emacs → At, Because, C-x C-b, Configuring, Emacs Lisp, ESS, Example, Executing, It, Key, Loading, Macros, Modes, Other, Setting, The, Themes, This, User
related to GNU Emacs · 18
Emacs → Early, Emacs Lisp, GNU, GNU Emacs, GNU Project, Gosling Emacs, In September, Lisp, March, Markus Hess, Mocklisp, Richard Stallman, Stallman's, The, This, Unix, Unix Emacs, Version
related to General architecture · 17
Emacs → All, Almost, Elisp, Emacs Lisp, GNU, GNU Emacs, In, JSON, Lisp, Modern GNU Emacs, The, The Emacs Lisp, This, Unix, VS Code, XML, YAML
related to Church of Emacs · 15
Emacs → Antioch, Christianity, Church, Cult, GNU, Ignatius, Richard Stallman, Roman, St, Stallman, Supporters, The Church, This, Using, While
related to Features · 15
Emacs → BTS, CP/M, CTSS, DOS, ED, Edlin, Ghostscript, GNU Emacs, It, LaTeX, Multics, QED, The, This, Unix
related to Other forks of GNU Emacs · 14
Emacs → ADvantages Over Windows, Apple Macintosh, Aquamacs, Cygwin, GNU Emacs, Japanese, Meadow, Microsoft Windows, Multilingual, Netinstaller, Other, The, This, UNIX-based

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gnu lisp editor text user language editing commands buffer used command code stallman version development macros written teco mode also

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Emacscausesmore such problems than other keyboard-heavy computer programs.Users have addressed this through various approaches0.90text
Emacsis areal-time display editor0.90text
LaTeXinstance ofalthough it is capable of formatting and printing documents like a word processor by interfacing with external programs0.80text
Ghostscript or a web browserinstance ofalthough it is capable of formatting and printing documents like a word processor by interfacing with external programs0.80text
wordsinstance ofEmacs provides commands to manipulate and differentially display semantic units of text0.80text
sentencesinstance ofEmacs provides commands to manipulate and differentially display semantic units of text0.80text
paragraphsinstance ofEmacs provides commands to manipulate and differentially display semantic units of text0.80text
source code constructs such as functionsinstance ofEmacs provides commands to manipulate and differentially display semantic units of text0.80text
the insertion of characters into a fileinstance ofincluding basic editing operations0.80text
is achieved through functions written in a dialect of the Lisp programming languageinstance ofincluding basic editing operations0.80text
XMLinstance ofwell known ones0.80text
JSONinstance ofwell known ones0.80text

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