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.
- An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, 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 25.2 − latest release
Released April 21, 2017
Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release.
For more information, read the News file.
Emacs 25.1
Released September 17, 2016
See also dates of older releases.
Emacs 25.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:
- Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules). A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package written in Emacs Lisp would.
- Experimental support for Cairo drawing.
- Enhanced network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) via the new Network Security Manager (NSM).
- New minor mode 'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you type.
- Character folding support in isearch.el.
- New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters: C-x 8 now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH).
For more information, read the News file.
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