Emacs Portable

Made as the portable counterpart of Emacs, this is a text editor designed for the Emacs Lisp programming language. It offers support for syntax highlighting and a lot of advanced settings for experienced users.

You can extract the program files to any part of the hard drive or external storage device and just click the executable file to launch Emacs on any computer with minimum effort and no additional installers. The main advantage is that it doesn't modify the Windows registry settings.

The interface is based on a normal window with a clear-cut structure that reminds us of a common word processor. The first noticeable aspect about it is that the mouse pointer blinks, but this can be disabled.

It's possible to enable or disable region highlighting, truncate long lines, resort to a search function and disable case insensitive mode, ask the tool to enter debugging mode on errors, apply directory names in buffer names, set bookmarks to easily jump to important parts of the code, as well as modify the default font settings.

Emacs Portable sports a wide range of programming tools in the attempt to ease your work. For instance, you can search files using Grep, compile and run the project in just a few clicks, enable a spellchecker and complete words, compare and merge files or buffers, apply patches, consult a calendar, use a simple calculator, as well as verify, encrypt, decrypt and sign files.

Considering its extensive list of comprehensive features, Emacs Portable is clearly a tool dedicated to expert users. As expected, it has minimal impact on computer performance, thanks to the fact that it needs low CPU and RAM to work properly. No error dialogs were shown in our tests, and the app didn't hang or crash. You can definitely test Emacs Portable for yourself, since you'll likely find its skillset satisfying.