MicroEMACS
Encyclopedia
MicroEMACS is a small, portable
Emacs
-like text editor
originally written by Dave Conroy in 1985, and further developed and maintained by Daniel M. Lawrence (1958-2010). MicroEMACS has been ported to many operating system
s, including MS-DOS
, Microsoft Windows
, VAX/VMS, AmigaOS
and various Unix-like
operating systems.
Variants of MicroEMACS also exist, such as MicroGNUEmacs (later renamed mg
), a more GNU Emacs-compatible editor. Many relationships to vi
can also be found in MicroEMACS. The vi clone vile was based around an older version of MicroEMACS.
Linus Torvalds
uses a customized version of [ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Local/uEmacs-PK/ uEmacs/PK] 4.0.15. This version was adapted by Petri H. Kutvonen from MicroEMACS 3.9e.
Porting
In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed...
Emacs
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
-like text editor
Text editor
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
originally written by Dave Conroy in 1985, and further developed and maintained by Daniel M. Lawrence (1958-2010). MicroEMACS has been ported to many operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s, including MS-DOS
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, VAX/VMS, AmigaOS
AmigaOS
AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...
and various Unix-like
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
operating systems.
Variants of MicroEMACS also exist, such as MicroGNUEmacs (later renamed mg
Mg (editor)
mg, originally called MicroGnuEmacs, , is a public-domain text editor that runs on Unix-like operating systems. It is based on MicroEMACS, but intended to more closely resemble GNU Emacs while still maintaining a small memory footprint and fast speed...
), a more GNU Emacs-compatible editor. Many relationships to vi
Vi
vi is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs based on it, and the ex editor language supported within these programs, is described by the Single Unix Specification and POSIX.The original code for vi...
can also be found in MicroEMACS. The vi clone vile was based around an older version of MicroEMACS.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
uses a customized version of [ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Local/uEmacs-PK/ uEmacs/PK] 4.0.15. This version was adapted by Petri H. Kutvonen from MicroEMACS 3.9e.