MicroEMACS

MicroEMACS is a small, <a href="/facts/Porting/7s6tFs8B">portable</a> <a href="/facts/Emacs/BvGxuAxQ">Emacs</a>-like <a href="/facts/Text_editor/jPCgtbvN">text editor</a> originally written by Dave Conroy in 1985, and further developed by Daniel M. Lawrence (1958–2010) and was maintained by him. MicroEMACS has been ported to many <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating systems</a>, including <a href="/facts/CP/M/n5rTgXdC">CP/M</a>, <a href="/facts/MS-DOS/fVrrz1uN">MS-DOS</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/OpenVMS/rAnHAgpD">VMS</a>, <a href="/facts/Atari_ST/9GsYSlaM">Atari ST</a>, <a href="/facts/AmigaOS/1E2k1fuN">AmigaOS</a>, <a href="/facts/OS-9/6dYWMW3f">OS-9</a>, <a href="/facts/NEXTSTEP/eL0bymga">NeXTSTEP</a>, and various <a href="/facts/Unix-like/YAKrAxzd">Unix-like</a> operating systems.
Variants of MicroEMACS also exist, such as <a href="/facts/Mg_(text_editor)/1L9TcXUT">mg</a>, a more <a href="/facts/GNU_Emacs/MPxf7qRC">GNU Emacs</a>-compatible editor. Many relationships to contemporary editors can also be found in MicroEMACS. The vi clone <a href="/facts/Vile_(text_editor)/NXR8MhvE">vile</a> was derived from an older version of MicroEMACS.
<a href="/facts/University_of_Washington/36PG6qkG">University of Washington</a>'s simple text editor <a href="/facts/Pico_(text_editor)/udjQMJGY">Pico</a> was based on MicroEMACS 3.6. Pico's featureset and interface would later be emulated in the free software clone <a href="/facts/GNU_nano/4HLojqjX">GNU nano</a> due to its ambiguous <a href="/facts/Software_license/7enfIqhL">licensing</a> terms.
<a href="/facts/Linus_Torvalds/EdDKP534">Linus Torvalds</a>, creator of <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a>, has been a user of MicroEMACS since his days as a student at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Helsinki/auoyYhDV">University of Helsinki</a>. Torvalds also maintains <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs">a fork of MicroEMACS</a>.

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