emacs-mirror/emacs
Mirror of GNU Emacs observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4409
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
5170 stars · 1396 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
GNU Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display text editor built around an Emacs Lisp interpreter. It supports content-aware editing modes, full Unicode, a package system, and a wide range of functionality beyond text editing such as email, IRC, and project management.
Use cases
- edit source code with syntax highlighting
- customize my editor with lisp
- manage email and irc from my editor
- extend a text editor with packages
- write and evaluate elisp interactively
- use one editor across linux mac and windows
When to choose
- you want a deeply extensible, scriptable editor with a huge package ecosystem
- you prefer keyboard-driven, self-documenting tooling that can host email, org-mode, and development workflows
- you want a free software editor maintained by the GNU project across many platforms
When to avoid
- you want a lightweight editor with minimal configuration
- you prefer mouse-centric GUI editors with out-of-the-box defaults
- you are unwilling to learn Emacs Lisp or keybindings
Facets
application · maturity stable
editor interpreter programming-language developer-tools cli gui text-editors developer-tools cross-platform windows bsd cross-platform cli emacs emacs-lisp gnu extensible-editor lisp self-documenting package-manager command-line linux macos android desktop
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs · fetched 2026-08-28 · c66c361fa751
- homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 64394f45c34b
- site_page: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/documentation.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4510a38b73f5
- site_page: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 12c0fe790bd0
- site_page: http://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7645c54f543f
- site_page: http://elpa.gnu.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 170df1a584e4
- site_page: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · fe57fe9a6eeb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| emacs-mirror/emacs | main | 77 |
For agents
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