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 XEmacs overlay |
| XEmacs | app-editors/xemacs | Emacs Lisp | See XEmacs page |
| Zile | app-editors/zile | none | Zile is lossy Emacs |
| 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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