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Javascript implementation of emacs

What implementations (emulations, clones) of emacs are there that are written in javascript? How are their stability, functionality, and compatibility with the original (GNU emacs)?

Edit I want to embed a text editor in a web application with emacs functionalities. The two answers I have gotten suggest Ymacs and Ace. What are their characteristics? How do they compare?

Solution

  • You are probably looking for Ace. It's the successor of Bespin/Skywriter. See

    http://ace.ajax.org/

    or for the code

    https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

    It is also used by ShareJS, an awesome Google-wave-like tool for collaborative editing. See http://sharejs.org/ and especially the demo here:

    http://sharejs.org/code.html