<p>My <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/07/30/building-emacs-25-2-on-xubuntu-17-04/">previous instructions</a> for installing a newer Emacs version on Ubuntu still work. Ubuntu (and in my case, XUbuntu) 19.04 ships with Emacs 26.1 out of the box. As usual I want to run the latest version - <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00577.html">Emacs 26.3</a> - as I run that on my other Linux, FreeBSD and macOS machines.</p>
<p>Saw the <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html">announcement</a> on on the GNU Emacs mailing list this morning. Much to my surprise, it’s also already available on <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a>. So my Mac is now sporting a new fetching version of Emacs as well :). I’ve been running the release candidate on several Linux machines already and was very happy with it, so upgrading my OS X install was pretty much a no brainer.</p>
<p>As posted in a few places, <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-04/msg00258.html">Emacs 26.1-RC1 has been released</a>. Following up my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/11/15/emacs-on-the-linux-subsystem-for-windows/">previous experiments with running Emacs on the Windows Subsystem for Linux</a>, I naturally had to see how the latest version would work out. For that, I built the RC1 on an up-to-date Ubuntu WSL. I actually built it twice – once…
