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Vim's rival in text editing
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emacs
Word definitions for emacs in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emacs and its derivatives are a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility . The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs , describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
Usage examples of emacs.
There were at least six listings in different colors above his workbench and two emacs below them giving more magical commands.
In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text.
Emacs in its normal form is the hacker's word processor, a text editor that offers little in the way of fancy formatting capabilities but does the basic job of editing plain text very well.