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GNU Emacs vs Octopress

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and Octopress. 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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Octopress

Octopress

Development

Octopress is an open-source, minimalist framework for generating static blogs and websites using Jekyll and Markdown. It is easy to set up and customize, integrates well with GitHub pages for hosting, and has a clean, responsive theme out of the box.

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