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GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable editor textand more. At its
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core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp
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programming language with extensions to support text editing. The
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features of GNU Emacs include:
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- Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a
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wide variety of file types including plain text, source code, and
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HTML.
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- Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
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- Support for many languages and their scripts, including all scripts,
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Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao,
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Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts.
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- Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical
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customization interface.
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- A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including
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a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface,
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calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with
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GNU Emacs; others are available separately.
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This is a meta-package that installs the default Emacs version.
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