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Summary

Emacs is a software category[1]. Emacs ranks in the top 5% of software category entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,412 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Richard Stallman[3], Guy L. Steele Jr.[4], David Moon[5]
  • Influenced by: E[6]
  • Instance of: text editor[7]
  • Based on: TECO[8]
  • Developer: David Moon[9]
  • Programmed in: Lisp[10]
  • Subclass of: text editor[11]
  • Operating system: Incompatible Timesharing System[12], TOPS-20[13], TENEX[14]
  • Software version identifier: 170[15]
  • Has use: text editing[16]
  • Commons category: Emacs[17]
  • Platform: PDP-10[18], DECSYSTEM-20[19]
  • Inception: 1976[20]
  • Publication date: 1976[21]
  • Introduced feature: text editing[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Emacs[23]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/emacs[24]
  • Different from: GNU Emacs[25]
  • Has list: list of Emacs implementations[26]
  • Stack Exchange site URL: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/[27]

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Influence

Things named for Emacs include Emacs Lisp[28], a programming language[29], founded in 1985[30].

Why It Matters

Emacs has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Emacs is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Emacs has been cited as an influence by Vim[33], a source code editor[34], founded in 1991[35].

Entities named for Emacs include Emacs Lisp[28], a programming language[29], founded in 1985[30].

FAQs

Who did Emacs influence?

Emacs has been cited as an influence by Vim[33].

Related Entities

David Moon Emacs China Emacs Lisp Gosling Emacs Incompatible Timesharing System Lisp PDP-10 Richard Stallman SWI-Prolog TECO TENEX TOPS-20 Vim WikEmacs Zee

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . pdp-10.trailing-edge.com. pdp-10.trailing-edge.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Self-Documenting Display Editor. wikidata.org.
  18. [21] ↑ . dspace.mit.edu. dspace.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [6] ↑ . Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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