MicroEmacs / MicroEmacs
News
- MicroEmacs 25 - 2025-12-01 - improved git interface nd tag generation, memory fixes
- MicroEmacs 09 - 2025-11-18 - new Vala, Kotlin, C#, Nim, Swift, Haskell, AsciiDoc, Typst, encodings: ISO-8859-16
- MicroEmacs 25 - 2025-11-09 - Haskell and Tcl manual support, ISO 8859-16 support, improved unicode handling
- MicroEmacs 25 - 2025-10-28 - XFreeType support!! - new Nim and Quarkdown, improved SVN ang Git modes
- MicroEmacs 25 - 2025-09-29 - new Kotlin, Powershell, Vala, AsciiDoc and Typst, Powershell install script, typing game
- MicroEmacs 25 - 2025-08-31 - improving Python, R, Octave, Julia, file-exec, file-format and file-lint commands
Versions
- MicroEmacs 26 - version for modern platforms, better unicode and font support, binaries provided for MacOS (arm and intel), Windows (arm and intel) and Linux (arm and intel) - last release 2025-12-01
- MicroEmacs 09 - version for more recent platforms, binaries provided for MacOS (arm and intel), Windows (intel), Linux (arm and intel), FreeBSD (intel/amd) and Cygwin Windows (intel) - last release 2025-11-18
Images
Left GUI - scheme basic black on cream, Right Terminal version with greek text and default theme.
Features
- cross platform: runs on a variety of platforms
- small size: with all macros less than 1 Mb
- fast, you have sessions but only one file will be processed , so no waiting for fontlocking like in emacs
- free and free sources (C)
- easy extensible via macros
- provides prebuild modes for 80 programming languages and you can easily add a new one
- well documented (!), in different formats (inbuild, html, hlp, pdf, chm)
- sophisiticated hilight mode, even nested hilighting
- inbuild man, info, html viewer
- I provide a perldoc viewer also
- So you can easily view various kinds of documentation
- ftp, cvs, http, metris, multiple windows, frames, include external tools, email, diff, organizer, spelling, keyboard and programming macros, intelligent formatting, folding ....
I could continue here but see the following pages for more.
- Introduction : Setup and Tour
- Modes : How to work with different programming languages.
- Macros : Some personal MicroEmacs macros.