Welcome to QEmacs! A very small but powerful
UNIX editor with many features that even big editors lack.
Quick Description
QEmacs is a small editor targetted at embedded systems or debugging.
Although it is very small, it has some very interesting features that
even big editors lack:
Full screen editor with an Emacs look and feel with all Emacs common
features: multi-buffer, multi-window, command mode, universal argument,
keyboard macros, config file with C like syntax, minibuffer with com-
pletion and history.
Can edit huge files (hundreds of megabytes) without delay, using a
highly optimized internal representation and by mmapping large file.
Full Unicode support, including multi charset handling
(8859-x, UTF8, SJIS, EUC-JP, ...) and bidirectional editing respecting
the Unicode bidi algorithm. Arabic and Indic scripts handling (in
progress). Automatic end of line detection.
C mode: coloring with immediate update, auto-indent, automatic tags.
Shell mode: full color VT100 emulation so that your shell works exactly
as you expect. Compile mode with colorized error messages,
automatic error message parser jumps to next/prev error, works with grep too.
The shell buffer is a fully functional terminal: you can run qemacs,
vim or even emacs recursively!
Input methods for most languages, including Chinese (input methods
come from the Yudit editor).
Hexadecimal editing mode with insertion and block commands. Unicode
hexa editing of UTF-8 files also supported. Can patch binary files,
preserving every byte outside the modified areas.
Works on any VT100 terminals without termcap. UTF-8 VT100 support
included with double width glyphs.
X11 support. Support multiple proportionnal fonts at the same time
(as XEmacs). X Input methods supported. Xft extension supported for
anti aliased font display.
Building QEmacs
Launch the configure tool ./configure. You can list the
possible options by typing ./configure --help.
Type make to compile qemacs and its associated tools.
Type make install as root to install it in /usr/local.
QEmacs is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License
(read the accompagning COPYING file).
QEmacs is not a GNU project, it does not use code from GNU Emacs.
Contributing to QEmacs
Please contact the qemacs-devel mailing list.
Authors
QEmacs was started in 2000. The initial version was developped by
Fabrice Bellard and Charlie Gordon, who since then, it has been maintaining
and extending it.
