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EMACS

In computing, a heavyweight text editor used mainly by Unix hackers. The name is dervied from Editing Macros, but is humorously, and recursively, said to stand for EMACS Makes A Computer Slow. EMACS was written by Richard Stallman at the MIT AI Lab and is published as public-domain software, EMACS was created by the US Free Software Foundation.
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