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Emacs
Emacs denominates a class of powerful, extensible, self-documenting text editors. The original implementation still updated today is GNU Emacs, a derivative is XEmacs, which was forked from GNU Emacs in the early 1990s. The latter is not the X version of Emacs but a complete separate program.
Available software
Apart from the two big contenders, many lightweight implementations exist, many of which are available in Gentoo:
| Editor name | Gentoo package |
|---|---|
| e3 | app-editors/e3 |
| EmACT | app-editors/emact |
| Ersatz Emacs | app-editors/ersatz-emacs |
| fe | app-editors/fe |
| GNU Emacs | app-editors/emacs (releases) or app-editors/emacs-vcs (live version) |
| Hemlock | dev-lisp/cmucl |
| Jasspa's MicroEmacs | app-editors/jasspa-microemacs |
| JED | app-editors/jed |
| JEmacs | dev-scheme/kawa |
| JOE | app-editors/joe |
| Jove | app-editors/jove |
| µEmacs/PK | app-editors/uemacs-pk |
| mg | app-editors/mg |
| Ng | app-editors/ng |
| QEmacs | app-editors/qemacs |
| XEmacs | app-editors/xemacs |
| Zile | app-editors/zile |
Ebuild repository
The Emacs project runs an ebuild repository for GNU Emacs and XEmacs (see Project:Emacs/Overlay) which contains a number of packages including many VCS builds. To add the repository:
root #eselect repository enable emacsroot #emerge --sync emacsor
root #layman -a emacsMany more emacs-related packages should now be available for installation.