| Freemacs | |
| Author: | Russ Nelson |
| Developer: | Jim Hall |
| Latest Release Version: | 1.6H |
| Operating System: | MS-DOS, FreeDOS |
| Genre: | Text editor |
| License: | GPL-1.0-only |
Freemacs is a small, programmable computer text editor for MS-DOS with some degree of compatibility with GNU Emacs.[1] Written by Russ Nelson and later maintained by Jim Hall, Freemacs is currently distributed under the GPL-1.0-only license in the FreeDOS project.[2]
Freemacs' executable binary, in the current 1.6 version, is only ~21k in size. Most features are implemented in MINT (Mint Is Not Trac),[1] whose role is akin to that of Emacs Lisp as used by other implementations of Emacs.
The most recent version of Freemacs is 1.6H, released in 2008.[3] Version 1.6G was released in 1999.[4]