title: Gnu Emacs Manual: For Version 22
author: Richard M. Stallman
description: Richard M Stallman developed the first Emacs in 1975 and wrote GNU Emacs in 1984-5. He has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
zlib_text: GNU Emacs Manual
  
  GNU Emacs Manual
  Seventeenth Edition, Updated for Emacs Version 24.5.
  Richard Stallman et al.
  
  This is the Seventeenth edition of the GNU Emacs Manual,
  updated for Emacs version 24.5.
  Copyright c⃝ 1985–1987, 1993–2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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