Emacs23 For Windows Build Binary for Win32 of latest Emacs23 from cvs repository Enjoy the world No.1 open source editor, only for professionals. 0: macs is primarily a text editor, not a word processor; it concentrates on manipulating pieces of text, rather than manipulating the typeface (the "font") of the characters or printing documents (though Emacs can do these as well). 1: Emacs provides commands to manipulate words and paragraphs (deleting them, moving them, moving through them, and so forth), syntax highlighting for making source code easier to read, and "keyboard macros" for performing arbitrary batches of editing commands defined by the user. 2: GNU Emacs is a "real-time display" editor in that edits get displayed on the screen as they occur. This is standard behaviour for modern text editors.