Audience
Anyone looking for an extensible, customizable, free text editor solution to create, change and interpret text modules
About Emacs
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick.
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GNU
Founded: 1996
United States
www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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Emacs Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Emacs work with?
Emacs works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Emacs support in their product?
Emacs supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Emacs offer?
Emacs offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Emacs integrate with?
Emacs integrates with: Amp, C, Devin Desktop, Common Lisp, Cairo Web Design CRM, Dash, Hound, JSON, Magit, Mermaid, MULTI IDE, Org Mode, Racket, Scheme, Cody, Sourcetrail, Tabnine, Termius, Wing Python IDE, and XML.
Q: What type of training does Emacs provide?
Emacs provides training in the form of documentation, in person, and videos.
