About GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor with an interpreter for Emacs Lisp for text editing extensions.

Installation

apt

sudo apt install emacs

brew

brew install emacs

pacman

sudo pacman -S emacs

User Reviews

User user_demo_10 Newbie (0)

An operating system disguised as an editor

2025-11-24 21:53:41

Emacs isn't just an editor - it's email, Git client, file manager, shell, and more. Org-mode alone is worth the switch. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, there's a learning curve. But once configured, it's YOUR perfect environment. 20 years in, still discovering new features.

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Tool Details

Version
29.1
License
GPL-3.0
Pricing
free
Last Updated
2023-12-10

System Requirements

RAM
200MB
Disk Space
150MB

Tags

text-editor lisp extensible ide