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{{Infobox software
| name = Freemacs
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| author = [[Russ Nelson]]
| developer = [[Jim Hall (computer programmer)|Jim Hall]]
| released =
| latest release version = 1.6H
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2008|10|19}}
| operating system = [[MS-DOS]], [[FreeDOS]]
| programming language =
| genre = [[Text editor]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-1.0-only]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/}}
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'''Freemacs''' is a small, programmable computer [[text editor]] for [[MS-DOS]] with some degree of compatibility with [[GNU Emacs]].<ref name="gnu">[https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull10.html#SEC21 Freemacs, an Extensible Editor for MS-DOS]</ref> Written by [[Russ Nelson]] and later maintained by [[Jim Hall (computer programmer)|Jim Hall]],<ref name="fdos"/> Freemacs is currently distributed under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL-1.0-only]] license in the [[FreeDOS]] project.<ref name="fdos">{{cite web
|url=http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=freemacs
|title=Freemacs
|work=FreeDOS - Software List
|publisher=freedos.org}}</ref>
Freemacs' [[executable]] binary, in the current 1.6 version, is only ~21k in size. Most features are implemented in MINT (''Mint Is Not [[TRAC (programming language)|Trac]]''),<ref name="gnu"/> whose role is akin to that of [[Emacs Lisp]] as used by other implementations of Emacs.
The most recent version of Freemacs is 1.6H, released in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/freemacs.html |title=FreeDOS 1.2 Updates Package - freemacs (Editors) |publisher=Ibiblio.org |date=2008-10-19 |accessdate=2022-09-04}}</ref> Version 1.6G was released in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/|title = Index of /Pub/Micro/Pc-stuff/Freedos/Files/Edit/Emacs}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/ Project home page]
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