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# MicroEMACS

MicroEMACS is a popular text editor written to run an a wide variety of computers and operating systems (Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, etc) including the QL and QDOS.

MicroEMACS was ported over to the QL by Ken Norrie and is available from the Quanta Library. It includes the editor, documentation, and the C source files.