"Emacs is different things to different people. Depending who you ask,
you'll could get any of the following
responses:
Text Editor
Mail Client
News Reader
Word Processor
Religion
Integrated Development Environment
Whatever you want it to be!
"But for our purposes, let's just pretend it's a text editor--an
amazingly flexible text editor. We'll dig deeper into the question later
on.
"Emacs was written by Richard Stallman (founder of the Free Software
Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/
and the GNU project http://www.gnu.org/)
and he still maintains it today.
"Emacs is one of the most popular and powerful text editors used on
Linux (and Unix). It is second in popularity only to vi. It is known for it
huge feature set, ability to be easily customized, and lack of bugs..."
