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+GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable editor textand more. At its
+core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp
+programming language with extensions to support text editing. The
+features of GNU Emacs include:
+
+- Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a
+ wide variety of file types including plain text, source code, and
+ HTML.
+- Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
+- Support for many languages and their scripts, including all scripts,
+ Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao,
+ Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts.
+- Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical
+ customization interface.
+- A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including
+ a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface,
+ calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with
+ GNU Emacs; others are available separately.