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Freemacs is a clone of the Emacs computer text editor for DOS[1], written by Russ Nelson and later maintained by Jim Hall. Freemacs is included in the FreeDOS project. It is currently without a maintainer.

Because its target operating systems are simple and require few system resources, Freemacs is written to be small: the executable binary in the current 1.6 version is only ~21k in size - most features are implemented in MINT (Mint Is Not Trac), a "string-oriented language", whose role is akin to that of Emacs Lisp as used by other implementations of Emacs.

Released under terms equivalent to those of the GNU General Public License, Freemacs is free and open source software.

References

  1. ^ Freemacs, an Extensible Editor for MS-DOS
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