Install latest/stable of GNU Emacs

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Features 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.

This snap is built via the build.snapcraft.io service from the snapcraft.yaml definition at https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap to ensure source and build transparency.

The snap contains Emacs compiled for both X11/gtk and wayland/pgtk and will automatically use the pgtk version when running under Wayland. You can override this however by setting the EMACS_TOOLKIT environment variable to either 'wayland' to specify the pgtk backend or 'gtk' to specify the X11/gtk backend.

Details for GNU Emacs

License

GPL-3.0+

Last updated

19 March 2025 - latest/stable
19 March 2025 - latest/candidate

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