[1] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

emacs
     editing macros gnu
     
     

[2] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

emacs /ee'maks/ n. from editing macros the ne plus ultra of hacker
   editors, a programmable text editor with an entire lisp system inside
   it. it was originally written by richard stallman in teco under
   its at the mit ai lab; ai memo 554 described it as "an advanced,
   self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor". it
   has since been reimplemented any number of times, by various hackers,
   and versions exist that run under most major operating systems. perhaps
   the most widely used version, also written by stallman and now called
   "gnu emacs" or gnumacs, runs principally under unix. its close
   relative xemacs is the second most popular version. it includes
   facilities to run compilation subprocesses and send and receive mail or
   news; many hackers spend up to 80 of their tube time inside it. other
   variants include gosmacs, cca emacs, unipress emacs, montgomery emacs,
   jove, epsilon, and microemacs. though we use the original all-caps
   spelling here, it is nowadays very commonly `emacs'.

   some emacs versions running under window managers iconify as an
   overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one feature the editor
   does not yet include. indeed, some hackers find emacs too
   heavyweight and baroque for their taste, and expand the name as
   `escape meta alt control shift' to spoof its heavy reliance on
   keystrokes decorated with bucky bits. other spoof expansions include
   `eight megabytes and constantly swapping' from when that was a lot of
   core, `eventually `malloc's all computer storage', and `emacs makes
   a computer slow' see recursive acronym. see also vi.


see also:
teco its gnu gnumacs tube time gosmacs 
heavyweight baroque bucky bits core recursive acronym 
vi 

[3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

emacs
     
         /ee'maks/ editing macros, or extensible macro
        system, gnu emacs a popular screen editor for unix and
        most other operating systems.
     
        emacs is distributed by the free software foundation and was
        richard stallman's first step in the gnu project.  emacs
        is extensible - it is easy to add new functions; customisable
        - you can rebind keys, and modify the behaviour of existing
        functions; self-documenting - there is extensive on-line,
        context-sensitive help; and has a real-time "what you see is
        what you get" display.  emacs is writen in c and the higher
        levels are programmed in emacs lisp.
     
        emacs has an entire lisp system inside it.  it was
        originally written in teco under its at the mit ai
        lab.  ai memo 554 described it as "an advanced,
        self-documenting, customisable, extensible real-time display
        editor".
     
        it includes facilities to view directories, run compilation
        subprocesses and send and receive electronic mail and
        usenet news gnus.  w3 is a web browser, the
        ange-ftp package provides transparent access to files on
        remote ftp servers.  calc is a calculator and symbolic
        mathematics package.  there are "modes" provided to assist in
        editing most well-known programming languages.  most of these
        extra functions are configured to load automatically on first
        use, reducing start-up time and memory consumption.  many
        hackers including denis howe spend more than 80 of their
        tube time inside emacs.
     
        gnu emacs is available for unix, vms, gnu/linux,
        freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, ms windows, ms-dos, and
        other systems.  emacs has been re-implemented more than 30
        times.  other variants include gosmacs, cca emacs, unipress
        emacs, montgomery emacs, and xemacs.  jove, epsilon, and
        microemacs are limited look-alikes.
     
        some emacs versions running under window managers iconify as
        an overflowing kitchen sink, perhaps to suggest the one
        feature the editor does not yet include.  indeed, some
        hackers find emacs too heavyweight and baroque for their
        taste, and expand the name as "escape meta alt control shift"
        to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes decorated with
        bucky bits.  other spoof expansions include "eight megabytes
        and constantly swapping", "eventually "malloc's all computer
        storage", and "emacs makes a computer slow" see recursive
        acronym.  see also vi.
     
        latest version: 20.6, as of 2000-05-11.  21.1 rsn adds a
        new redisplay engine with support for proportional text,
        images, tool bars, tool tips, toolkit scroll bars, and a
        mouse-sensitive mode line.
     
        ftp from your nearest gnu archive site.
     
        e-mail: bug reports only .
     
        usenet newsgroups: news:gnu.emacs.help,
        news:gnu.emacs.bug, news:alt.religion.emacs,
        news:gnu.emacs.sources, news:gnu.emacs.announce.
     
        jargon file
     
        1997-02-04
     
     
see also:
screen editor unix operating systems free software foundation richard stallman gnu 
c emacs lisp lisp teco its 
mit ai lab electronic mail usenet news 
gnus w3 web browser ftp servers 
calc symbolic mathematics denis howe tube time vms 
linux freebsd netbsd openbsd ms windows 
ms-dos gosmacs xemacs jove epsilon 
microemacs window managers heavyweight baroque bucky bits 
recursive acronym vi rsn proportional text tool bars 
tool tips gnu archive site lt;news:gnu.emacs.helpgt; lt;news:gnu.emacs.buggt; lt;news:alt.religion.emacsgt; lt;news:gnu.emacs.sourcesgt; lt;news:gnu.emacs.announcegt; jargon file 

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GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
...... Manual is included in the Emacs distribution itself. The Emacs Lisp ... and Related packages. and Major Emacs Lisp Packages, Emacs Extensions ... ..
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html, score=100, date indexed=January 21, 2006, 9:58 pm

GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
...... Manual is included in the Emacs distribution itself. The Emacs Lisp ... and Related packages. and Major Emacs Lisp Packages, Emacs Extensions ... ..
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, score=92, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 1:59 am

GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows
...What is a .emacs file? * Where do I put my .emacs, (or _emacs), file? ... How do I associate files with Emacs (i.e., use Emacs as a server with ... ..
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html, score=91, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 9:15 am

IU Computer Science Department - Bad URL
... ..
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html, score=90, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:15 am

GNU Emacs FAQ for Windows
...What is a .emacs file? * Where do I put my .emacs, (or _emacs), file? ... How do I associate files with Emacs (i.e., use Emacs as a server with ... ..
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html, score=89, date indexed=January 24, 2006, 3:41 am

403 Forbidden
... ..
http://www.emacswiki.org/, score=89, date indexed=January 19, 2006, 4:12 pm

Text browser works on emacs
...... share/emacs/site-lisp % cd /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp % emacs -q ... emacs-w3m@namazu.org. , to discuss about emacs-w3m. Because almost all ... ..
http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/, score=87, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 6:41 am

XEmacs: The next generation of Emacs
...... Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical ... It is a feature differentiating XEmacs from GNU Emacs by allowing us ... ..
http://www.xemacs.org/, score=86, date indexed=January 23, 2006, 7:25 am

Porkrind Dot Org: Carbon Emacs Port
...... usr/bin/emacs-21.1 to /usr/bin/emacs. That will make the emacs that ... distribution. Emacs 21.4 will be the first official Emacs release with ... ..
http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/, score=86, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 7:21 am

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