Emacs editors in Gentoo

1. Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo

In addition to GNU Emacs and XEmacs, there are other Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo, including several Microemacs variants. Most of them are also maintained by the Emacs team.

See also Craig Finseth's list of Emacs implementations and Jamie Zawinski's Emacs timeline.

Editor name	Package name	Extension language	Description
Climacs / Drei	dev-lisp/climacs	Common Lisp	An Emacs-like editor in Common Lisp, in Gentoo Lisp overlay
e3	app-editors/e3	none
Edwin	dev-scheme/mit-scheme-c	Scheme	In Gentoo Lisp overlay. Start with: scheme -edwin -edit
EmACT	app-editors/emact	Minimal Lisp	Fork of Conroy's MicroEmacs
Ersatz Emacs	app-editors/ersatz-emacs	none	A very minimal imitation of GNU Emacs
fe	app-editors/fe	none	Small and easy to use folding editor – successor to Origami
GNU Emacs	app-editors/emacs	Emacs Lisp	See GNU Emacs page
Hemlock	dev-lisp/cmucl	CMU Common Lisp	Start with: lisp -eval '(require :hemlock) (ed)'
Jasspa's MicroEmacs	app-editors/jasspa-microemacs	custom	Also as NanoEmacs with USE=nanoemacs
JED	app-editors/jed	S-Lang
JEmacs	dev-scheme/kawa	Scheme, Emacs Lisp	USE=jemacs
JOE	app-editors/joe	macros	Joe's Own Editor
Jove	app-editors/jove	none	Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs – a light emacs-like editor without LISP bindings
µEmacs/PK	app-editors/uemacs-pk	custom	MicroEMACS 3.9e with enhancements by Petri Kutvonen
mg	app-editors/mg	none	Micro GNU/emacs
Ng	app-editors/ng	none	Nihongo micro Gnu emacs, maintained by CJK team
QEmacs	app-editors/qemacs	none	Quick Emacs
SXEmacs	app-editors/sxemacs	Emacs Lisp	In Emacs overlay
XEmacs	app-editors/xemacs	Emacs Lisp	See XEmacs page
Zile	app-editors/zile	none	Zile is lossy Emacs

2. Resources

Resource	Comment
Craig A. Finseth; The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World; ISBN 0-387-97616-7; Springer-Verlag	Background information about user interfaces and the ergonomics of text editing.

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Page updated January 9, 2013

Summary: This document lists and describes Emacs-like editors available in Gentoo.

Ulrich Müller
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