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GNU Emacs

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.

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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.
An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.
A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.

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Emacs 26.1 âˆ’ latest release

Released May 28, 2018

Emacs 26.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

Limited form of concurrency with Lisp threads
Support for optional display of line numbers in the buffer
Emacs now uses double buffering to reduce flicker on the X Window System
Flymake has been completely redesigned
TRAMP has a new connection method for Google Drive
New single-line horizontal scrolling mode
A systemd user unit file is provided
Support for 24-bit colors on capable text terminals

Emacs 25.3

Released September 11, 2017

Emacs 25.3 fixes a significant security hole.

Emacs 25.2

Released April 21, 2017

Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release.
For more information, read the News file.

Emacs 25.1

Released September 17, 2016

See also dates of older releases.

Emacs 25.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules). A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package written in Emacs Lisp would.
Experimental support for Cairo drawing.
Enhanced network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) via the new Network Security Manager (NSM).
New minor mode 'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you type.
Character folding support in isearch.el.
New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters: C-x 8 now has shorthands for several chars, such as U+2010 (HYPHEN), U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), and U+2012 (FIGURE DASH).

For more information, read the News file.

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