GNU Emacs is much more than a simple word processor. Over the years it has expanded into an entire work flow environment. Programmers will be impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual word processor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments! And when you tire of all the work you can accomplish with it, there are games to play.

Features include:

• Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.
• Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles for GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows/DOS and VMS systems.
• Support for typing and displaying in 21 non-English languages, including Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Vietnamese and all Western European languages.
• Creates Postscript output from plain text files and has special editing modes for LaTeX and TeX
• Compile and debug from inside Emacs
• Maintain program ChangeLogs
• Extensive file merge and diff functions
• Directory navigation: flag, move and delete files and sub-directories recursively.
• Run shell commands from inside Emacs, or even use Emacs as a shell itself (Eshell)
• Set up tag tables
• Version control management for release and beta versions, with CVS and RCS integration and much more!

About the Author: Richard M. Stallman is the original author of GNU Emacs and is still its maintainer. He was recently awarded the 2001 Takeda Award for Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements in Social/Economic Well-Being. He is the founder of Project GNU and the Free Software Foundation.