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.
Stable releases of Emacs are published to the latest/stable
channel. These are built by Launchpad using this recipe https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+snap/emacs/ which provides full build logs for build transparency.
Release candidate builds of Emacs are published weekly to the latest/beta
channel. These are built by Launchpad using this recipe https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+snap/emacs/ which provides full build logs for build transparency.
Snapshot builds of Emacs git are published weekly to the latest/edge
channel. These are built by Launchpad using this recipe https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray/+snap/emacs-snapshot/ which provides full build logs for build transparency.