GNU Emacs
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor and more
GNU Emacs launched on June 29, 2016 with 8 votes, #1,878 of 4,334 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. “Our mission is to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users.” Copyright 2015-2026 Free Software Foundation , Inc. 31 Milk Street, # 960789, Boston, MA 02196from gnu.org
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