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An extensible, customizable, free/libre 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-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.
• A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more.
• A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.

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• @emacsrocks ;; episode 15"Restclient"
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• @emacsrocks ;; episode 13"multiple-cursors"

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Emacs 31.1

Released Aug 24, 2026

Emacs 31.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

• Using the mouse to control Emacs in a terminal enabled by default
• New user-lisp/ subdirectory of your Emacs configuration directory
• Child frames supported on text frames
• Various improvements to the *Completions* buffer
• Commands to split windows make better choices about the split direction
• The *grep* and *xref* buffers now support editable modes
• New feature to review changes to packages before installing or upgrading them
• New theme designed to make Emacs more approachable for new users

Emacs 30.2

Released Aug 14, 2025

Emacs 30.2 is a maintenance release.

Emacs 30.1

Released Feb 23, 2025

Emacs 30.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

• Native compilation is enabled by default
• Ported to the Android operating system
• New user option trusted-contents
• Numerous performance improvements
• Native JSON support is always available
• New Tree-Sitter major modes for Elixir, HEEx, HTML, Lua, and PHP
• Support for the EditorConfig standard
• Improved support for touchscreens
• Tool bars per window and on bottom
• New package which-key
• Automatic regeneration of TAGS files
• New minor mode visual-wrap-prefix-mode
• Support for underline colors on TTY frames

See also dates of older releases.

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