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8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors

The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.

Ement.el is a Matrix client for Emacs. It aims to be simple, fast, featureful, and reliable, while integrating naturally with Emacs.

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

JOVE (Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs) is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems.

ce is a customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor similar to the GNU version of Emacs.

mg is a Micro Emacs derivative. It’s a portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYW scientific word processor. Produce structured documents of high typographical quality.