Meadow (programming)

Meadow
Developer(s)	MIYASHITA Hisashi, The Meadow Team
Initial release	?
Stable release	2.10.8 (2006) _[±]
Preview release	3.00.5 (2006) _[±]
Written in	?
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English and Japanese only
Type	Text editor
License	GPL
Website	www.meadowy.org

Meadow is an open source programming project to port the popular GNU Emacs text editor for UNIX-based operating systems to Microsoft Windows with some added functions. The name comes from the phrase "Multilingual enhancement to GNU Emacs with ADvantages Over Windows".

Versions

Version 1 series, based on Emacs v.21 (current stable release Ver.1.15)
Version 2 series, based on Emacs v.22 (17 January 2004 current 2.00 pre-release)
Version 3 series, based on Emacs v.22 (Development release)

Installation

Meadow utilizes Netinstaller, similar to one used for Cygwin installation. This allows users to install Meadow in the way the user wanted, making it easier to get started with Meadow.