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GNU Emacs Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to GNU Emacs
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doom-emacs
Discontinued An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
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bufler.el
A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better GNU Emacs alternative or higher similarity.
GNU Emacs discussion
GNU Emacs reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of GNU Emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-08-24.
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What's New in Emacs 31.1?
He's in the MAINTAINERS files[0], and the person with the most commits in 2016-2026 period, so no.
[0] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/admin/MAIN...
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Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
Related cool thing: Emacs may get a new GC in 32, https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/feature/igc3/READ...
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What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey
Emacs: ~10
- Emacs in Pop Culture
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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Emacs has been an option for going on 50 years now, just saying. The GNU Emacs 31 branch[0] was cut recently and we're barreling towards a new release. It might be time to give it another look.
[0]: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS
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Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks
But how would you compete when people inevitably started mandating superior editors such as emacs[1]?
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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Offpunk 3.0
There is https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/calen... and https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav but that not much related to Gnus approach of "unifying messages in a single UI", it could be used to import from ics files to org-agenda or creating an ics file or sync org-agenda with Radicale/Baïkal/Davis CalDAV servers
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IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
You mean something like which-key? It existed for a long time as an external package and was added to main emacs recently. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/fa4203300fde682...
- Emacs: A Paradigm Shift
- Emacs 30.2 Is Here
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The primary programming language of GNU Emacs is Emacs Lisp.
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