GNU Emacs
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
The features of GNU Emacs include
- Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types.
- Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
- Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts.
- Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.
- A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more.
- A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.
Discover Emacs in video
- @emacsrocks ;; episode 15"Restclient"
- @emacsrocks ;; episode 14"Paredit"
- @emacsrocks ;; episode 13"multiple-cursors"
Watch more episodes on Emacsrocks.com.
Emacs 28.2
Released Sep 12, 2022
Emacs 28.2 is a maintenance release.
Emacs 28.1
Released Apr 4, 2022
Emacs 28.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:
- Native compilation of Lisp files
- Text shaping with HarfBuzz and drawing with Cairo
- Support for loading Secure Computing filters
- Much improved display of Emoji and Emoji sequences
- New system for documenting groups of functions
- A minor mode for context menus
- Mode-specific commands
- Emacs shows matching parentheses by default
- Many improvements and extensions to project.el
Emacs 27.2
Released Mar 25, 2021
Emacs 27.2 is a maintenance release.
- The behavior of the user option 'resize-mini-frames' has changed.
Emacs 27.1
Released Aug 10, 2020
Emacs 27.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:
- Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers
- Text shaping with HarfBuzz
- Native support for JSON parsing
- Better support for Cairo drawing
- Portable dumping used instead of unexec
- Support for XDG conventions for init files
- Additional early-init initialization file
- Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line
- Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick
See also dates of older releases.
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