Remacs
E1008117
Remacs is a modern reimplementation of the Emacs text editor core in Rust, aiming to improve performance, safety, and maintainability while remaining compatible with existing Emacs Lisp packages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Remacs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900310 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Remacs Context triple: [Emacs family of editors, hasMember, Remacs]
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A.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
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B.
Emacs family of editors
The Emacs family of editors is a lineage of highly extensible, customizable text editors—most notably GNU Emacs—that serve as powerful, programmable environments for text editing and software development.
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C.
Franz Lisp
Franz Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language developed in the late 1970s at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily for use in artificial intelligence research and symbolic computation.
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D.
Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme is a high-performance, optimizing implementation of the Scheme programming language widely used for both research and production systems.
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E.
TECO Emacs
TECO Emacs is an early, TECO-based text editor that served as a direct precursor and foundational influence to modern Emacs implementations like GNU Emacs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Remacs Target entity description: Remacs is a modern reimplementation of the Emacs text editor core in Rust, aiming to improve performance, safety, and maintainability while remaining compatible with existing Emacs Lisp packages.
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A.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
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B.
Emacs family of editors
The Emacs family of editors is a lineage of highly extensible, customizable text editors—most notably GNU Emacs—that serve as powerful, programmable environments for text editing and software development.
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C.
Franz Lisp
Franz Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language developed in the late 1970s at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily for use in artificial intelligence research and symbolic computation.
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D.
Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme is a high-performance, optimizing implementation of the Scheme programming language widely used for both research and production systems.
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E.
TECO Emacs
TECO Emacs is an early, TECO-based text editor that served as a direct precursor and foundational influence to modern Emacs implementations like GNU Emacs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emacs implementation
ⓘ
software project ⓘ text editor core ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve maintainability
ⓘ
improve performance ⓘ improve safety ⓘ |
| basedOn | GNU Emacs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Emacs Lisp packages
ⓘ
existing Emacs configurations ⓘ |
| developmentStatus |
experimental
ⓘ
incomplete reimplementation of Emacs ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Emacs Lisp runtime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rust-based core ⓘ |
| hasFeature | bytecode interpreter for Emacs Lisp ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
remain compatible with Emacs
ⓘ
replace parts of Emacs C code with Rust ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
backwards compatibility focus
ⓘ
memory safety focus ⓘ performance optimization focus ⓘ |
| implements | Emacs core ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | GNU Emacs design ⓘ |
| license | free software license ⓘ |
| partOf | Emacs ecosystem ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English (project documentation) ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Rust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reimplements | Emacs C core in Rust ⓘ |
| repositoryHostingService | GitHub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| softwareEngineeringGoal |
improve code maintainability
ⓘ
modernize Emacs internals ⓘ reduce memory-related bugs ⓘ refactor legacy C codebase ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | text editor ⓘ |
| supports | Emacs Lisp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
GNU/Linux
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ macOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetUser | Emacs users ⓘ |
| uses |
Rust ownership model
ⓘ
Rust type system ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Remacs Description of subject: Remacs is a modern reimplementation of the Emacs text editor core in Rust, aiming to improve performance, safety, and maintainability while remaining compatible with existing Emacs Lisp packages.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.