Alternatives

Products that do what Openemacs – a tiny emacs clone, ≤ 1024 LOC (C), based on kilo (BSD) does

1. 1CA
   Circular, an open source clone of Buffer▲160

   2012 · circular.io

2. 2EA
   Emacs Anywhere▲248

   2018 · github.com

3. 3AM
   A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C▲172

   2015 · github.com

4. 4VA
   Vuiet – a music player and explorer for Emacs▲101

   2020 · github.com

5. 5MA
   Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go▲175

   2019 · github.com

6. 6AS
   A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor▲120

   2017 · github.com

7. 7FA
   Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C▲143

   2020 · github.com

8. 8MF
   Minimal freestanding C runtime for bare-metal/embedded PC projects▲97

   2015 · github.com

9. 9HA
   HextEdit – A fast and native hex editor for macOS▲88

   2021 · hextedit.app

10. 10NM
    nyan-mode.el - Nyan Cat for Emacs (my first real Emacs minor mode)▲71

    2011 · nyan-mode.buildsomethingamazing.com

11. 11GA
    Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C▲60

    2020 · greg-calendar.vercel.app

12. 12TC
    Tiny C runtime Linux (rt0), HelloWorld 0.6k (i386), sbrk example added▲49

    2015 · github.com

13. 13MA
    Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro▲69

    2019 · github.com

14. 14PA
    Pancake – a CLI/Emacs web/gopher/file browser▲22

    2017 · defanor.uberspace.net

15. 15MA
    Meson, a C build system▲42

    2015 · github.com

16. 16JA
    Jazzle – An Innovative, Fast Transpiler for ECMAScript 2015 and later▲61

    2017 · github.com

17. 17CA
    Calc, a simple command-line calulator in C▲31

    2015 · github.com

18. 18ES
    Elang, Small Python-Like Language for the Emacs VM▲5

    2015 · github.com

19. 19II
    immut.io – an immutable blob store▲22

    2015 · immut.io

20. 20CA
    Chibicc – A Small C Compiler▲22

    2020 · github.com

21. 21AE
    An Elisp tutorial made to run inside Emacs (constructed by Claude Code)▲5

    2025 · github.com

22. 22KO
    Kind of reinventing Emacs and Elisp – looking for feedback▲10

    2018 · github.com

23. 23SA
    Slimhtml – An Emacs org-mode export back-end which outputs minimal HTML▲8

    2018 · github.com

24. 24CA
    Chaskiq – an open source alternative to Intercom, Drift and others▲32

    2020 · github.com

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