Freemacs

Web site: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: DOS
License: GNU GPL 1.0
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia: Freemacs
First release: 1980

Freemacs – a text editor in the Emacs family, adapted for FreeDOS. Developed by Russ Nelson in the 1980s, Freemacs is now distributed under the GNU GPL.

Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only ~21K because it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented language. Freemacs is yet another GNU Emacs clone.

Russ Nelson developed Freemacs in assembler. He is also the author of MINT, a string interpreter based on TRAC, which gives Freemacs all the features of an extension language like Elisp. MINT is a recursive acronym that stands for “MINT Is Not TRAC”.


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