{"id":9291,"date":"2019-08-29T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9291"},"modified":"2019-08-29T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:20:53","slug":"gnu-emacs-26-3-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/gnu-emacs-26-3-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Emacs 26.3 Released, How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/emacs-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GNU Emacs text editor 26.3 was released last night. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emacs<\/a> 26.3 is a maintenance release contains following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New GPG key for GNU ELPA package signature checking.<\/li>\n<li>New option &#8216;help-enable-completion-auto-load&#8217;, allows disabling the new feature introduced in Emacs 26.1 which loads files during completion of &#8216;C-h f&#8217; and &#8216;C-h v&#8217; according to &#8216;definition-prefixes&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Emacs now supports the new Japanese Era name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/emacs26-600x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/emacs26-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/emacs26-450x302.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/emacs26-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/emacs26.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Emacs 26.3 in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher:<\/h4>\n<p>Emacs 26.3 has made into Snap Store as containerized snap package. For <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> and higher, simply search for and install it via <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-600x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-600x373.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-450x280.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/emacs-snapstore.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those prefer native Ubuntu <code>.deb<\/code> package, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~kelleyk\/+archive\/ubuntu\/emacs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this PPA repository<\/a> contains the most recent Emacs packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Emacs 26.3 packages should be made into the PPA in a few days.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNU Emacs text editor 26.3 was released last night. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Emacs 26.3 is a maintenance release contains following changes: New GPG key for GNU ELPA package signature checking. New option &#8216;help-enable-completion-auto-load&#8217;, allows disabling the new feature introduced in Emacs 26.1 which loads files during completion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[596],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-emacs"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}