XEmacs is a text editor which is based on, and forked from, the GNU Emacs text editor. It capitalises on good GUI support. XEmacs runs on almost any Unix-like operating system (inside X or in a text terminal), as well as on Microsoft Windows. It also runs on Mac OS X with X11.app (a native Carbon version is in alpha testing).

Like GNU Emacs, XEmacs is free software which is available under the GNU General Public License. When speaking about an unspecified version of GNU Emacs/XEmacs, the generic lowercase term emacs (plural emacsen) is used.

XEmacs was created in 1991 as Lucid Emacs by Richard P. Gabriel's Lucid Inc. to support their proprietary Energize C++ IDE. Lucid forked the code, developing and maintaining their own version of Emacs, because they were dissatisfied with the maintenance of the original Emacs, and delays in the release of the next GNU Emacs. Their version of Emacs was very popular, so when Lucid went out of business in 1994, the code was picked up by another development team, and began to be maintained under its current name, "XEmacs" (the "X" coming from the X Window System).

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