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GNU Emacs vs HippoEDIT

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and HippoEDIT. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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HippoEDIT

HippoEDIT

Development

HippoEDIT is a lightweight yet powerful text and code editor for Windows. It has syntax highlighting for many programming languages and includes tools for search/replace, manipulating text, macros and more. It aims to provide functionality similar to more complex IDEs in a fast, no-frills application.

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