1 Introduction

Emacsy is inspired by the Emacs text editor, but it is not an attempt to create another text editor. This project "extracts" the kernel of Emacs that makes it so extensible. There’s a joke that Emacs is a great operating system—lacking only a decent editor. Emacsy is the Emacs OS sans the text editor. Although Emacsy shares no code with Emacs, it does share a vision. This project is aimed at Emacs users and software developers.