Emacs Editor
What is Emacs?
Emacs is a general purpose text editor originally written by Richard Stallman and maintained by the Free Software Foundation.
How to obtain Emacs?
Emacs is free software and can be obtained in source and binary form from a variety of sources for a variety of operating systems.
GNU/Linux and other UNIX
Most Linux and BSD distributions include a version of Emacs, but it may not be installed by default.
Ubuntu Linux (all versions)
For Ubuntu use the following command to install Emacs
sudo apt-get install emacs
For other distributions, consult your documentation.
Emacs should now be available in the Development menu.
Solaris
SUN uses XEmacs (a fork of GNU Emacs) in their free Sun Studio development environment. See their site for download and install instructions.
If you wish to use GNU Emacs, the easiest way to install on Solaris would be to use the build provieded by Blastwave.org.
Microsoft Windows
GNU Emacs supports Windows 95 and greater. There is also a DOS/Windows 3.1 port, but it is unmaintained.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X includes a text-only version of Emacs, but there are several high quality port of Emacs to Carbon and Cocoa.
- Carbon Emacs
- Based on the latest sources, this version is more like traditional X11-based Emacs versions.
- Aquamacs
- Aquamacs attempts to make Emacs into a more "Mac-like" application.
