Download Emacs for Windows/Mac
Windows
Download at http://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:
- emacs-27.1-i686.zip → for 32 bits machine
- emacs-27.1-x86_64.zip → for 64 bits machine
![gnu emacs windows download 2020-11-13 YN2Hx2](i/gnu_emacs_windows_download_2020-11-13_YN2Hx2.png)
[see Windows: How to Check 32 Bits or 64 Bits]
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.
![runemacs 2021-01-10 WzbJT](i/runemacs_2021-01-10_WzbJT.png)
To uninstall, just delete the folder.
Mac
Download plain GNU Emacs, built by David Caldwell. At http://emacsformacosx.com/
Linux
Build Emacs from Source Code
Download Emacs Binary from apt-get
On Ubuntu, to check available emacs package version for install,
# search for emacs binary apt-cache search emacs | grep emacs
Typically you install by
sudo apt-get install emacs27
, where the emacs27 may be other version.