Download GNU Emacs 29.1

Version 29.1 of the GNU Emacs text editor has been released. This program, which is available for Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS, has been around for over forty years and the demand is more, what can it do not really? The changelog for version 29.1 can be found below.

Emacs 29.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

• Supports “pure GTK” (PGTK) build
• Uses XInput 2 on X for input events
• Uses tree-sitter parsers for several programming modes
• Includes LSP client called Eglot
• Includes the use-package package
• Can access SQLite databases using sqlite3 library
• Can display WebP images using libwebp library
• Faster editing of files with very long lines
• Better support for drag-and-drop on X
• Pixel-precise scrolling with touchpad support
• Enhanced support for editing and displaying Emoji
• Support for Unicode 15.0 and many new scripts
• Many enhancements of help and completion commands
• Numerous enhancements to Image Dired
• Double buffering on MS Windows