Freemacs

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{{Infobox software

| name = Freemacs

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| author = Russ Nelson

| developer = Jim Hall

| released =

| latest release version = 1.6H

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2008|10|19}}

| operating system = MS-DOS, FreeDOS

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| genre = Text editor

| 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.[https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull10.html#SEC21 Freemacs, an Extensible Editor for MS-DOS] Written by Russ Nelson and later maintained by Jim Hall, Freemacs is currently distributed under the GPL-1.0-only license in the FreeDOS project.{{cite web

|url=http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=freemacs

|title=Freemacs

|work=FreeDOS - Software List

|publisher=freedos.org}}

Freemacs' executable binary, in the current 1.6 version, is only ~21k in size. Most features are implemented in MINT (Mint Is Not Trac), 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.{{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}} Version 1.6G was released in 1999.{{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}}