GNU Emacs (Q1252773)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

24 August 2016

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Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia import URL

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GNU_Emacs_26.2_screenshot.png

movement

free software movement

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https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnu.emacs

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operating system

GNU/Linux

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11 August 2020

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11 August 2020

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11 August 2020

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11 August 2020

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Unix-like operating system

11 August 2020

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cross-platform

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GUI toolkit or framework

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https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs/analyses/latest/languages_summary

The emacs Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page (English) (English)

reason for preferred rank

28 October 2023

Emacs Lisp

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https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs/analyses/latest/languages_summary

The emacs Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page (English)

reason for deprecated rank

5 September 2018

Lisp

item/value with less precision and/or accuracy

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source code repository URL

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

version control system

Git

web interface software

cgit

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https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git

version control system

Git

web interface software

Gitweb

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https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/

version control system

CVS

web interface software

ViewVC

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issue tracker URL

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs

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software version identifier

24.4

20 October 2014

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2014-10/msg00008.html

20 October 2014

Emacs 24.4 released (English)

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz

11 December 2015

24.5

10 April 2015

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz.sig

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00002.html

Emacs 24.5 released (English)

Nicolas Petton

10 April 2015

11 August 2020

24.3

11 March 2013

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2013-03/msg00001.html

Emacs 24.3 released (English)

11 December 2015

10 March 2013

24.2

27 August 2012

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2012-08/msg00000.html

27 August 2012

Emacs 24.2 released (English)

11 December 2015

24.1

10 June 2012

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2012-06/msg00000.html

Emacs 24.1 released (English)

11 December 2015

10 June 2012

23.4

29 January 2012

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2012-01/msg00000.html

Emacs 23.4 released (English)

11 December 2015

29 January 2012

23.3

10 March 2011

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2011-03/msg00000.html

Emacs 23.3 released (English)

11 December 2015

10 March 2011

23.2

8 May 2010

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2010-05/msg00000.html

8 May 2010

Emacs 23.2 released (English)

11 December 2015

23.1

29 July 2009

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html

29 July 2009

11 December 2015

Emacs 23.1 released (English)

22.3

5 September 2008

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2008-09/msg00000.html

Emacs 22.3 released (English)

11 December 2015

6 September 2008

22.2

26 March 2008

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00000.html

Emacs 22.2 released (English)

11 December 2015

26 March 2008

22.1

2 June 2007

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html

Emacs 22.1 released (English)

3 June 2007

11 December 2015

21.4

6 February 2005

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2005-02/msg00000.html

Emacs 21.4 released (English)

11 December 2015

8 February 2005

21.3

24 March 2003

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2003-03/msg00000.html

Emacs 21.3 released (English)

11 December 2015

24 March 2003

21.2

18 March 2002

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2002-03/msg00000.html

Emacs 21.2 released (English)

11 December 2015

18 March 2002

21.1

28 October 2001

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00009.html

Emacs 21.1 released (English)

11 December 2015

28 October 2001

25.1

17 September 2016

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25.2

21 April 2017

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25.3

11 September 2017

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26.1

version type

stable version

28 May 2018

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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-26.2.tar.gz

26.2

12 April 2019

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-04/msg00003.html

Emacs 26.2 released (English)

Nicolas Petton

12 April 2019

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-26.3.tar.xz

9 April 2025

26.3

28 August 2019

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-26.3.tar.xz.sig

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-08/msg00007.html

Emacs 26.3 released (English)

Nicolas Petton

28 August 2019

11 August 2020

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz

27.1

10 August 2020

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz.sig

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-08/msg00003.html

Emacs 27.1 released (English)

Nicolas Petton

11 August 2020

11 August 2020

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-27.2.tar.gz

27.2

25 March 2021

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-03/msg01249.html

Emacs 27.2 is released (English)

Eli Zaretskii

25 March 2021

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg01361.html

25 March 2021

27.1.91

29 January 2021

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Emacs 27.1.91 is out (English)

Eli Zaretskii

29 January 2021

7 April 2026

release candidate version

27.2-rc1

18 March 2021

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-03/msg00804.html

Emacs 27.2 RC1 (English)

Eli Zaretskii

18 March 2021

release candidate version

7 April 2026

27.2-rc2

19 March 2021

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28.0.90

2 December 2021

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00217.html

Emacs pretest 28.0.90 is out (English)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-01/msg00774.html

2 December 2021

28.0.91

9 January 2022

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Emacs pretest 28.0.91 is out (English)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-03/msg00332.html

10 January 2022

28.0.92

13 March 2022

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Emacs pretest 28.0.92 is out (English)

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-28.1.tar.gz

13 March 2022

28.1

4 April 2022

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-04/msg00001.html

Emacs 28.1 released (English)

4 April 2022

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-28.2.tar.gz

4 April 2022

28.2

12 September 2022

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00730.html

Emacs 28.2 released (English)

Stefan Kangas

12 September 2022

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.1.tar.gz

12 September 2022

29.1

30 July 2023

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-07/msg00879.html

30 July 2023

30 July 2023

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.2.tar.gz

Emacs 29.1 released (English)

29.2

18 January 2024

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-01/msg00666.html

Emacs 29.2 released (English)

18 January 2024

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.3.tar.gz

18 January 2024

29.3

24 March 2024

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-03/msg00005.html

Emacs 29.3 released (English)

24 March 2024

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-29.4.tar.gz

28 March 2024

29.4

22 June 2024

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-06/msg00007.html

Emacs 29.4 released (English)

Stefan Kangas

22 June 2024

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.0.93.tar.xz

22 June 2024

30.0.93

19 December 2024

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-12/msg00869.html

Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is available (English)

Andrea Corallo

19 December 2024

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.gz

27 December 2024

30.1

23 February 2025

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00009.html

Emacs 30.1 released (English)

Stefan Kangas

23 February 2025

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.2.tar.gz

16 August 2025

30.2

14 August 2025

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-08/msg00004.html

Emacs 30.2 released (English)

14 August 2025

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.1.90.tar.xz

16 August 2025

30.1.90

18 May 2025

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Emacs pretest 30.1.90 (English)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-05/msg00409.html

19 September 2025

18 May 2025

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-31.0.90.tar.gz

31.0.90

5 June 2026

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-06/msg00118.html

Emacs 31.0.90 pretest is available (English)

5 June 2026

6 June 2026

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-31.1.tar.gz

31.1

24 August 2026

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-08/msg00006.html

Emacs 31.1 released (English)

Sean Whitton

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html

24 August 2026

24 August 2026

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statement is subject of

GNU Emacs Manual

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email address

mailto:emacs-tangents@gnu.org

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mailto:help-emacs-windows@gnu.org

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mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org

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official website

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

11 August 2020

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11 August 2020

copyrighted

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Free Software Foundation

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5 November 2015

unknown value

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July 2016

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

September 2020

end time

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Richard Stallman

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Andrea Corallo

May 2024

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-05/msg00789.html

A new Emacs maintainer: Andrea Corallo. (English)

Richard Stallman

14 May 2024

16 May 2024

August 2023

1 reference

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-08/msg00991.html

Stefen Kangas is now an Emacs maintainer (English)

Richard Stallman

25 August 2023

22 June 2024

December 2025

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-12/msg00788.html

New Maintainer (English)

Sean Whitton

27 December 2025

24 August 2026

2008

2015

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https://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-with-chong-yidong-and-stefan.html

24 August 2026

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-09/msg00849.html

Feature freeze (English)

Stefan Monnier

http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/stefan_monnier_emacs_maintainer.html

21 September 2015

24 August 2026

Stefan Monnier (and Chong Yidong), Emacs Maintainer, 2008 to 2015 (English)

Xah Lee

14 October 2019

24 August 2026

2008

2012

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https://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-with-chong-yidong-and-stefan.html

24 August 2026

http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/stefan_monnier_emacs_maintainer.html

Stefan Monnier (and Chong Yidong), Emacs Maintainer, 2008 to 2015 (English)

Xah Lee

quotation

Stefan Monnier and Chong Yidong, led GNU Emacs since 2008. Chong Yidong quit in 2012. (English)

14 October 2019

24 August 2026

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00259.html

Emacs co-maintainer position (English)

Chong Yidong

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el

16 June 2012

24 August 2026

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IRC channel URL

irc://irc.freenode.net/emacs

unknown value

end time

11 June 2021

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html

Emacs-related IRC channels moving to Libera.Chat (English)

Amin Bandali

11 June 2021

irc://irc.libera.chat/emacs

2 July 2021

11 June 2021

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html

Emacs-related IRC channels moving to Libera.Chat (English)

Amin Bandali

11 June 2021

irc://irc.libera.chat/emacs-beginners

2 July 2021

11 June 2021

intended public

beginner

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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html

Emacs-related IRC channels moving to Libera.Chat (English)

Amin Bandali

11 June 2021

https://emacs.stackexchange.com

2 July 2021

Stack Exchange site URL

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mailing list archive URL

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/

intended public

programmer

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/

8 December 2020

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/

8 December 2020

intended public

end user

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/

8 December 2020

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-tangents/

8 December 2020

list for discussing topics that are only tangentially related to Emacs, and are off-topic on other Emacs-related lists

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/

8 December 2020

has use

announcement

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https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs

https://stackoverflow.com/tags/emacs

2 July 2021

Stack Exchange tag

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different from

Emacs

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Commons category

Emacs

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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID

12573216d

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Canadiana Name Authority ID

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GNU Emacs

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17 August 2023

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Library of Congress Authorities ID

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Chocolatey Community package ID

Emacs

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‎ComputerLanguage.com definition

Emacs

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Debian source package

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Debian stable package

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1094

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GNU Savannah project ID

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GNU_Savannah_project

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Guix Variable Name

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Homebrew formula name

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editors/emacs21-nox11

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editors/emacs26-nox11

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editors/emacs-snapshot

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editors/emacs-nox11

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editors/emacs25-nox11

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editors/emacs27-nox11

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editors/emacs27

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Open Hub ID

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Open Library subject ID

GNU Emacs

12 September 2022

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OpenBSD port

editors/emacs

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Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID

3992

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GNU Emacs (Finnish)

GNU Emacs (Swedish)

GNU Emacs (English)

GNU Emacs (Northern Sami)

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