GNU Emacs is the most popular and most ported
Emacs text editor. It was created by
GNU Project founder
Richard Stallman. In common with other varieties of Emacs, GNU Emacs is extensible using a
Turing complete programming language. GNU Emacs has been called "the most powerful text editor available today." With proper support from the underlying system, GNU Emacs is able to display files in multiple character sets, and has been able to simultaneously display most human languages since at least 1999. Throughout its history, GNU Emacs has been a central component of the
GNU project, and a flagship of the
free software movement. The tag line for GNU Emacs is "the extensible self-documenting text editor".