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'''Emacs''' is a text editor originally created by [[Richard Stallman]] and Guy L. Steele, Jr. | '''Emacs''' is a text editor originally created by [[Richard Stallman]] and Guy L. Steele, Jr. | ||
It is often lovingly referred to as its own self-contained operating system. | It is often lovingly referred to as its own self-contained operating system. There is a humors feud between users of VIM and users of Emacs. Followers of Emacs are called members of The Church of Emacs. You can read about this [https://stallman.org/saint.html here]. | ||
== History == | == History == |
Revision as of 04:37, 14 February 2016
Emacs is a text editor originally created by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele, Jr.
It is often lovingly referred to as its own self-contained operating system. There is a humors feud between users of VIM and users of Emacs. Followers of Emacs are called members of The Church of Emacs. You can read about this here.
History
Richard Stallman began writing GNU Emacs in 1984 has a free software alternative to the proprietary Gosling Emacs.
This was the first program released by the GNU Project.
Plan9 doesn't like Emacs. This is the man page for it. Very clearly they are against it. Also this happened.