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Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 7 stories, 8 comments · first 2018-01-18 · latest 2026-09-01

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    Linus Torvalds' uEmacs – the editor he has used since the 1980s
    story by oumua_don17 · 2026-09-01 · 0 comments
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    UEmacs/PK 4.0: Full screen editor based on MicroEMACS 3.9e
    story by doener · 2025-12-14 · 0 comments
  3. Neat, I am a fan of minimalist text editors. There is also uEmacs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
    comment by mise_en_place · 2023-12-25 · in Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C
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    Linus UEmacs
    story by User23 · 2023-06-29 · 1 comment
  5. …used to its peculiar keybindings. He rather worked on the kernel than to learn new keybindings. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
    comment by nequo · 2022-11-25 · in Ask HN: What modern “legendary” programmer prefers IDE other than Vim or Emacs?
  6. …has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs [1]: https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
    comment by faho · 2022-06-09 · in Sunsetting Atom
  7. …choice (unless there's something more recent). If I recall correctly he has been using uEmacs/PK ( https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs ). > I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly.…
    comment by rascul · 2021-08-14 · in GNU nano is my editor of choice
  8. Maybe uEmacs source[0] will help? Torvalds still uses it according to his last interview.. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
    comment by e3bc54b2 · 2021-07-24 · in CudaText: Cross-platform code editor
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    Random version of microemacs with private modificatons
    story by susam · 2021-06-08 · 0 comments
  10. …that with quickjs, one now can make a reasonably modern web browser out of bellard-ware… [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs [2]: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by mhd · 2021-02-15 · in Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler
  11. He uses his own fork of microemacs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs Or at least he used to.
    comment by kryptiskt · 2020-07-13 · in Fedora Approves of Making Nano the Default Terminal Text Editor
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    Allow bigger filenames – torvalds/uemacs 1cdcf9d
    story by jraph · 2018-10-09 · 0 comments
  13. …the complaints were posted. [1] https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/issues/16 [3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/595#issuecomment-4236... [4]…
    comment by tzs · 2018-09-22 · in A Programming Language Underdog
  14. ▲ 1
    Using a GitHub issue to say hi to Linus Torvalds
    story by thecodeboy · 2018-02-04 · 0 comments
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    Torvalds/uemacs
    story by castlegloom · 2018-01-18 · 0 comments