GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is a free software text editor. It was created by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs editor developed for Unix operating systems. GNU Emacs has been a central component of the GNU project and a flagship project of the free software movement. Its tag line is "the extensible self-documenting text editor."

This article is about a specific Emacs implementation. For the class of text editors, see Emacs.
GNU Emacs
Original author(s)Richard Stallman
Developer(s)GNU Project
Initial release20 March 1985 (1985-03-20)
Stable release
29.3  / 24 March 2024
Preview release
27.1.91  / 29 January 2021
Repository
Written inEmacs Lisp, C
Operating systemUnix-like (GNU, Linux, macOS, BSDs, Solaris), Windows, MS-DOS
PlatformCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeText editor
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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