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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: ActiveState Komodo, Anjuta, AppFlower, Aptana, Bluefish (text editor), BlueJ, Cameleon (software), Climacs, Cloud9 IDE, Code:: Blocks, CodeLite, CWEB, Dev-C++, DJGCC, DJGPP, DogmaModeler, EasyEclipse, Eclipse (software), EiffelStudio, Emacs, Embedded System Debug Plug-in for Eclipse, Eric Python IDE, FlashDevelop, Fresh (IDE), Gambas, Geany, General Architecture for Text Engineering, GNAT Programming Studio, GNAVI, GNU MIX Development Kit, Greenfoot, HBasic, IcyOwl, IDLE (Python), IntelliJ IDEA, JUDO (computer programming environment), KDevelop, Kuzya, Lava (programming language), Lazarus (IDE), MonoDevelop, NeOn Toolkit, NetBeans, Ninja-ide, OntoWiki, Open Dialect, Padre (software), Photran, PHPEclipse, PIDA, Protean IDE, Protege (software), Pydev, PyScripter, QDevelop, Quanta Plus, RadRails, SharpDevelop, SLIME, SmallBASIC, Spyder (software), Stani's Python Editor, TIGCC, Ultimate++, Unified Code Count (UCC), Visual Palmtalk, WaveMaker, WideStudio, WxDev-C++, ZGameEditor. Excerpt: Emacs () and its derivatives are a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for one variant describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively as of 2013. Emacs has over 2,000 built-in commands and allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. The use of Emacs Lisp, a variant of the Lisp programming language, provides a deep extension capability. The original EMACS was written in 1976 by Richard Stallman and Guy L. Steele, Jr. as a set of Editor MACroS for the TECO editor. It was inspired by the ideas of the TECO-macro editors TECMAC and TMACS. Emacs became, along with vi, one of the two main contenders in the traditional editor wars of Unix culture. The word "emacs" is...