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About
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable 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-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a wide-range of file types - Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users - Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts - Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface - Includes a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more
Additional information
- Developer
- Free Software Foundation
- License
- GPL-3.0+ and GFDL-1.3+
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Size
- 54.8 MB
- Homepage
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
- Available via
- Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store (stable build), AppImage, AUR (git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, Nixpkgs, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Solus, Gentoo
- Catalog data as of
- 9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)