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Freemacs is a small, programmable computer text editor for MS-DOS with some degree of compatibility with Emacs for DOS[1]. Written by Russ Nelson and later maintained by Jim Hall[2], Freemacs is currently distributed under the GPL in the FreeDOS project[2].

Freemacs' executable binary, in the current 1.6 version, is only ~21k in size. Most features are implemented in MINT (Mint Is Not Trac)[1], whose role is akin to that of Emacs Lisp as used by other implementations of Emacs.

Freemacs' development is stalled since 1999, when its last version was released[3].

References

  1. ^ a b Freemacs, an Extensible Editor for MS-DOS
  2. ^ a b "EMACS". FreeDOS - Software List. freedos.org.
  3. ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/