Download Emacs for Windows, Mac, Linux
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-25.1-i686-w64-mingw32.zip
- emacs-25.1-x86_64-w64-mingw32.zip
- emacs-25.2-i686.zip
The “i686” means 32-bit. The “x86_64” means 64-bit.
To find if your Microsoft Windows is 32 or 64, press ❖ Window key, type “about” in the search box. It'll bring up “About this PC” window. Look for the line “system type”.
After download, right click “extract all” to unzip it.
Open the folder, open the folder named “bin”, click the “runemacs” to start emacs.
To uninstall, just delete the folder.
〔►see Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ〕
Mac
On Mac OS X, emacs is instealled by default. But a very old version, version 22.1, dated 2007.
To launch, go to terminal and type
emacs &
emacs --version → print version.
man emacs → read about basic command flags.
GNU Emacs for Mac
Download at http://emacsformacosx.com/
This is plain GNU Emacs, built by David Caldwell.
Homebrew, Macports
Get emacs from one of the package managers.
- Homebrew http://brew.sh/
- MacPorts https://www.macports.org/
Aquamacs Emacs
Download at http://aquamacs.org/
Aquamacs Emacs is a emacs with complete Mac user interface, by David Reitter.
Linux
In terminal, type:
which emacs → check if emacs is installed and in your path.
emacs --version → print version.
man emacs → read about basic command flags.
On Debian/Ubuntu, to check available emacs package version for install,
# search for emacs binary apt-cache search emacs | grep emacs
Typicall you install by
sudo apt-get install emacs25
, where the emacs25 may be other version.
On linux, often you build emacs yourself. It's easy. See: