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Emacs
A family of cross-platform customizable text editors. It has many features, including syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, REPL support, debugging, code browsing, version control integration and much more. GNU Emacs and XEmacs are the two most popular versions.
| First released | 1976 |
| Developed by | David A. Moon, Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard M. Stallman |
| Open-source | Yes |
Interesting facts
Emacs is among the oldest free and open source projects still under development.
