This useful as Geany is not that great with more than one view per document.Įmacs, by default, uses the nonstandard keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Y to paste into a document from the system clipboard (the standard is Ctrl + V). Casual use of Emacs Use as a secondary text editor to see two parts of a document at the same timeįor instance, on a two-monitor system, Emacs on one screen and Geany on the other. To open Emacs in terminal mode ( “-nw” is the short form for the option “–no-window-system”):Įxit by Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C (or F10, arrow up, and Enter to invoke the menu, select the last menu command in the first menu (“Quit”)).Īfter this, it will launch the new version (27.1) anywhere on the command line (but the one in the GUI system (e.g., Win + “emacs”) will still list the old version).
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Sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libtiff5-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-devĪt this point, Emacs can be launched (this will open a GUI application): Next, install more packages and compile Emacs Install package ‘libtiff-dev’ first (separately from the following installs):ģ. Get the source code (the work folder is off in sub folder ‘temp2/’ from the current user’s home folder):Ģ. Or it can be useful for getting this to work in the future, including new versions of Ubuntu or other Linux distributions. Development here means a package includes the header files (.h, etc.) – required for the build from source (that is, they are not pre-alpha versions (unstable/buggy)).īut it also covers all the error messages one will run into if following the instructions on the official Emacs website (they do not work at all on Ubuntu – or rather there are a lot of required prerequisites). The gist is to install the latest (or available) development edition (suffix “-dev” in the package name) of the dependencies for Emacs.
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The main part of this blog post is step-by-step instructions on how to compile the latest version of Emacs from source. The versions of the required packages to install in order for the compile to succeed are wrong and the set of packages is different.
Most blog posts and Stack Exchange answers about this are out of date. One way to get the latest version, currently 27.2 for the stable version, is to compile from source. Using the package manager in Ubuntu to install Emacs will result in some older version (version 26.3 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa)).
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