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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is a text editor, available on Windows, Linux and Android: debugging.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, Linux and Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

GNU Emacs is a text editor, available on Windows, Linux and Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its Flathub listing and on its official website: debugging.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “An extensible text editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Includes a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of GNU Emacs is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence could not be established at the source: check the terms on the official website.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable 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-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a wide-range of file types Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface Includes a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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