Longtime users of the venerable Emacs editor can now use it with a sleek new skin that emphasizes consistency and ergonomics A new distribution of the Emacs editor, called Spacemacs, repackages the ...

As a rule, I try hard not to get sucked into religious wars. You know, Coke vs Pepsi. C++ vs Java. Chrome vs Firefox. There are two I can’t help but jump into: PC vs Mac (although, now that Mac has ...

KeySnail (free) adds a wide array of features to the Firefox Web browser that are accessed using a sequence of keystrokes, such as Ctrl-x followed by b, rather than one hotkey. The keystrokes are ...

Old-school flame wars about the best bare-bones text editor for software development may be revived as new editions of Vim and GNU Emacs were released in the same week. The two text editors have ...

In the vast landscape of Linux, the prowess of a user is often measured by their fluency in text editing. Two titans dominate this realm: Vim and Emacs. These editors are not merely tools; they are ...

Online code repository GitHub is taking on the venerable Emacs and Vim text editors by releasing a text editor of its own, called Atom, which it claims is more suited to the Web era of development.

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned ...

In response to the Jan. 17 Newsmaker interview with James Gosling, "Why Microsoft's C# isn't": In your interview with James Gosling, he says that he was "responsible for the original Emacs, 23 years ...