Emacs is a free, powerful, highly extensible and customizable, cross-platform text editors you can use on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. The core of Emacs is also an interpreter for Emacs Lisp which is a language under the Lisp programming language. TextWrangler is a multi-purpose text editor for the Mac OS.
Windows
Emacs Download Mac Download
Download athttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/
This is the official GNU Emacs, build for Windows by Free Software Foundation.
You'll see file names like these:
- The Mac OS 8/9 code is now part of the standard source distribution of Emacs 21. Although you can obtain the latest version of the source code by anonymous CVS from the Emacs project page, Emacs cannot bootstrap on Mac OS 8/9 so the Lisp files must be compiled on another platform (such as Mac OS X).
- Emacs is installed on macOS by default, but a very old version, version 22.1, dated 2007. In terminal, type: which emacs → check if emacs is installed and in your path. Emacs -version → print version. Emacs → launch emacs. (to quit, press Ctrl+x Ctrl+c) Download Latest Emacs for MacOS. Emacs 24.1.1 for Mac — just clone it and use.
- XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux.
- GNU Emacs For Mac OS X. Pure builds of Emacs for Mac OS X. Download Emacs Version 27.2-2 Universal Binary (81.080 MB) Released 2021-03-27. Usually there's a nifty page here with a big download button. But you are using a browser which doesn't support SVG and so you get the boring looking page.
- emacs-27.1-i686.zip → for 32 bits machine
- emacs-27.1-x86_64.zip → for 64 bits machine
To find if your Microsoft Windows is 32 or 64, press ❖ Window key, type “about” in the search box. It'll bring up “About” window.Look for the line “system type”.
After download, right click on the zip file, select “extract all” to unzip it.
Then open the extracted folder, open the folder named “bin”, click the “runemacs” to start emacs.
To uninstall, just delete the folder.
[see Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ]
Mac
Emacs is installed on macOS by default, but a very old version, version22.1, dated 2007.
In terminal, type:
which emacs
- check if emacs is installed and in your path.
emacs --version
- print version.
emacs
- launch emacs. (to quit, press Ctrl+xCtrl+c)
Download Latest Emacs for MacOS
Download athttp://emacsformacosx.com/
This is plain GNU Emacs, built by David Caldwell.
Homebrew, Macports
Emacs Download Mac Catalina
Or, get emacs from one of the package managers.
- Homebrew http://brew.sh/
- MacPorts https://www.macports.org/
Gnu Emacs
you can double click the icon to launch emacs.
or, launch emacs in terminal, like this:
Linux
Build Emacs from Source Code
Download Emacs Binary from apt-get
In terminal, type:
which emacs
- check if emacs is installed and in your path.
emacs --version
- print version.
emacs
- launch emacs. (to quit, press Ctrl+xCtrl+c)
On Ubuntu, to check available emacs package version for install,
Typically you install by
sudo apt-get install emacs27
, where the emacs27 may be other version.
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