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Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo
In addition to GNU Emacs and XEmacs, there are other Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo, including several Microemacs variants. Most of them are also maintained by the Emacs team.
Emacs implementations written in Lisp
| Editor name | Package name | Extension language | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climacs / Drei | dev-lisp/climacs | Common Lisp | An Emacs-like editor in Common Lisp, in Gentoo Lisp overlay |
| Edwin | dev-scheme/mit-scheme-c | Scheme | In Gentoo Lisp overlay. Start with: scheme -edwin -edit
|
| GNU Emacs | app-editors/emacs | Emacs Lisp | See GNU Emacs developer guide |
| Hemlock | dev-lisp/cmucl | CMU Common Lisp | Start with: lisp -eval '(require :hemlock) (ed)'
|
| JEmacs | dev-scheme/kawa | Scheme, Emacs Lisp | USE=jemacs
|
| XEmacs | app-editors/xemacs | Emacs Lisp | See XEmacs on Gentoo |
Implementations descended from Dave Conroy's Microemacs
| Editor name | Package name | Extension language | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| EmACT | app-editors/emact | Minimal Lisp | Fork of Conroy’s MicroEmacs |
| Ersatz Emacs | app-editors/ersatz-emacs | none | A very minimal imitation of GNU Emacs |
| Jasspa’s MicroEmacs | app-editors/jasspa-microemacs | custom | Also as NanoEmacs with USE=nanoemacs
|
| mg | app-editors/mg | none | Micro GNU/emacs |
| Ng | app-editors/ng | none | Nihongo micro Gnu emacs, maintained by CJK team |
| Perfect Emacs | app-editors/pemacs | none | Small footprint Emacs derived from Ersatz Emacs, in Emacs overlay |
| µEmacs/PK | app-editors/uemacs-pk | custom | MicroEMACS 3.9e with enhancements by Petri Kutvonen |
Other editors resembling Emacs
| Editor name | Package name | Extension language | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| e3 | app-editors/e3 | none | |
| fe | app-editors/fe | none | Small and easy to use folding editor – successor to Origami |
| JED | app-editors/jed | S-Lang | |
| JOE | app-editors/joe | macros | Joe’s Own Editor |
| Jove | app-editors/jove | none | Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs – a light emacs-like editor without LISP bindings |
| Jupp | app-editors/jupp | macros | Portable version of JOE |
| QEmacs | app-editors/qemacs | none | Quick Emacs |
| Zile | app-editors/zile | none | Zile is lossy Emacs |
External resources
| Resource | Comment |
|---|---|
| Craig A. Finseth: The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World. Springer-Verlag, New York 1991, ISBN 0-387-97616-7. | Background information about user interfaces and the ergonomics of text editing. |
| Craig A. Finseth: List of Emacs implementations. | A list of implementations of Emacs-type editors and literature about such editors. |
| Jamie Zawinski: Emacs timeline. | A timeline of the GNU Emacs / XEmacs family tree. |