Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Free TeX editors, Free raster graphics editors, Free spelling checking programs, Free text editors, Free vector graphics editors, GIMP, Vim, XEmacs, Dia, Nano, LyX, Acme, GNU TeXmacs, Kate, Inkscape, Comparison of TeX editors, Elvis, Xara Xtreme, Tux Paint, AkelPad, Notepad++, Vile, XEDIT, Joe's Own Editor, ACE, TinyMCE, Krita, Sam, JEdit, SK1, FontForge, GrafX2, Pinta, GIMPshop, Gedit, GPHPedit, Phatch, Smultron, AUCTEX, Xfig, FlashDevelop, CinePaint, OpenOffice.org Draw, SciTE, Synfig, SVG-edit, TeXShop, Beye, GNU Aspell, Leo, Sodipodi, CKEditor, Batik, TeXnicCenter, Nvi, Notepad2, Ipe, Hunspell, Aloha Editor, Gobby, Scintilla, The Hessling Editor, Alchemy, MySpell, Geany, ActiveState Komodo, Yi, XPaint, Jupp, NEdit, Programmer's Notepad, Texmaker, Vimscript, JLatexEditor, SXEmacs, RText, TeXworks, Virastyar, KolourPaint, KWrite, Kupu, Metapad, Tgif, Frhed, Lapis, Max Editor, Diakonos, Enchant, Kile, Gummi, JuffEd, PabloDraw, Aquamacs, VRR, JOVE, GimPhoto, Ispell, Skencil, WYMeditor, Hemlock, Mined, Caditor, Scribes, Mg, MicroEMACS, YUI Rich Text Editor, Karbon14, Climacs, Zile, Yudit, Cream, Pspell, Winefish, Freemacs, SETEDIT, Red, MeWa, JPicEdt. Excerpt: Emacs (pronounced ) is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. 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 as of 2011. The most popular version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU Project, which is commonly referred to simply as "Emacs." The GNU Emacs manual describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." It is also the most ported of the implementations of Emacs. As of March 2011, the latest stable release of GNU Emacs is version 23.3. Aside from GNU Emacs, a...