Emacs is the monster of all editors.
Emacs stands for Editor MACroS.
(GNU)-Emacs was written and is maintained by
Richard Stallman, the first version is form 1975.
It has become a de facto standard alongside vi.
Emacs is more than just a text editor.
It is a complete system for development, communications,
file management, and things you wouldn't even imagine.
Emacs has an active development community numbering in the hundreds,
and runs on Windows , Linux and Unix.