MicroEMACS is a small, portable Emacs-like text editor originally written by Dave Conroy in 1985, and further developed by Daniel M. Lawrence (1958–2010[2][3]) and was maintained by him.

Variants of MicroEMACS also exist, such as mg, a more GNU Emacs-compatible editor.

University of Washington's simple text editor Pico was based on MicroEMACS 3.6.

Pico's featureset and interface would later be emulated in the free software clone GNU nano due to its ambiguous licensing terms.

[5] Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has been a user of MicroEMACS since his days as a student at the University of Helsinki.