Elle (Elle Looks Like Emacs)
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ELLE is an Emacs
clone for MINIX
. The name is a recursive acronym
that means "ELLE Looks Like Emacs". It is a very light editor developed by Ken Harrenstein. ELLE is not full Emacs but it has about 80 commands and is quite fast. It has a small number of commands compared to other editors. All of them are either of the form CTRL-x or are on the numeric keypad.
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
clone for MINIX
Minix
MINIX is a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes; MINIX also inspired the creation of the Linux kernel....
. The name is a recursive acronym
Recursive acronym
A recursive acronym is an acronym or initialism that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands...
that means "ELLE Looks Like Emacs". It is a very light editor developed by Ken Harrenstein. ELLE is not full Emacs but it has about 80 commands and is quite fast. It has a small number of commands compared to other editors. All of them are either of the form CTRL-x or are on the numeric keypad.