Emacs: Download

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Windows

This is the official GNU Emacs, build for Windows by Free Software Foundation. Download at

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/

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gnu emacs windows download 2025-03-06 283f1
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gnu emacs windows download 2025-03-06 28455

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.

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Windows runemacs 2021-01-10

Uninstall

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.

Download for Android Operating System