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GNU Emacs vs SilverEdit

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

SilverEdit

Office & Productivity

SilverEdit is a free and open source plain text editor for Windows. It has a simple, minimal interface focused on fast editing with keyboard shortcuts, search and replace, syntax highlighting for various programming languages, and other basic text editing features.

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