Emacs
Emacs , originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor MACroS"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, s ...
text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be us ...
. Zmacs was written for the MITLisp machine and runs on its descendants (Symbolics Genera, LMI Lambda,
TI Explorer
The Texas Instruments Explorer is a family of Lisp machine computers. These computers were sold by Texas Instruments (TI) in the 1980s. The Explorer is based on a design from Lisp Machines Incorporated, which is based on the MIT Lisp machine. The ...
). Zmacs is written in
Lisp Machine Lisp
Lisp Machine Lisp is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. A direct descendant of Maclisp, it was initially developed in the mid to late 1970s as the system programming language for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M ...
(called
ZetaLisp
Lisp Machine Lisp is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. A direct descendant of Maclisp, it was initially developed in the mid to late 1970s as the system programming language for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( ...
on
Symbolics
Symbolics was a computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
Lisp Machines
Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language computer architecture, and in a sense, the ...
). It is based on the
ZWEI
Zwei (German: "two") may refer to:
* Zwei (band), a Japanese duo band
* ZWEI, a text editor
* '' Zwei: The Arges Adventure'', 2001 video game
* '' Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection'', 2008 video game
* Zwei, a team in ''Infinite Ryvius'' anime serie ...
programming substrate, which stands for "Zwei Was
EINE
EINE and ZWEI are two discontinued Emacs-like text editors developed by Daniel Weinreb and Mike McMahon for Lisp machines in the 1970s and 1980s.
History
EINE was a text editor developed in the late 1970s. In terms of features, its goal was to ...
Initially"; Zwei was a collection of routines which could be used to easily implement other programs, like the Symbolics mail program, ''Zmail''.
A distinctive feature of Zmacs, which can also be found in Hemlock and
LispWorks
LispWorks is computer software, a proprietary
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