Web site: www.aquest.com/emacs.htm
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Linux, BSD, Unix, DOS, Windows, CP/M, OpenVMS, Atari ST, AmigaOS, NeXTSTEP
License: GNU GPL
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia: MicroEMACS
First release: 1985
MicroEMACS – a programmer’s text editor which is very powerfull, customizable, and exists for a large number of different types of computer systems. It is particularly usefull for people who work on a lot of different computers and want to have a familiar and powerful editor which works identically no matter what computer they are using.
It is a tool for creating and changing documents, programs, and other text files. It is both relatively easy for the novice to use, but also very powerful in the hands of an expert. MicroEMACS can be extensively customized for the needs of the individual user.
MicroEMACS allows several files to be edited at the same time. The screen can be split into different windows and screens, and text may be moved freely from one window on any screen to the next. Depending on the type of file being edited, MicroEMACS can change how it behaves to make editing simple. Editing standard text files, program files and word processing documents are all possible at the same time.
There are extensive capabilities to make word processing and editing easier. These include commands for string searching and replacing, paragraph reformatting and deleting, automatic word wrapping, word move and deletes, easy case controlling, and automatic word counts.
For complex and repetitive editing tasks editing macroes can be written. These macroes allow the user a great degree of flexibility in determining how MicroEMACS behaves. Also, any and all the commands can be used by any keystroke by changing, or rebinding, what commands various keys invoke. A full multilevel Undo facility allows the user to recover from most editing errors with little effort.
Special features are also available to perform a diverse set of operations such as file encryption, automatic backup file generation, entabbing and detabbing lines, executing operating system commands and filtering of text through other programs (like SORT to allow sorting text).
The MicroEMACS screenshot source: Wikipedia; License: GNU GPL.
