How to completely remove my Emacs?
You haven't installed Emacs with the package manager. As you have installed it from source tarball, try this way.
Check emacs version.
$ emacs --version
Download the same emacs version you have installed in the past.
$ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-$VERSION.tar.xz
Extract tarball.
$ tar xJvf emacs-$VERSION.tar.xz
Run ./configure to generate the make file. If you remember the option you have given when you install it, add those command line flags, too. (e.g. --with-x=no)
$ cd emacs-$VERSION $ ./configure
Do make uninstall to uninstall.
$ sudo make uninstall
Enjoy!
apt-get can not detect the applications which you have installed from source.Actually every source file will have uninstall script also but unfortunately you have removed the source file.
You may still do this. In the terminal type as
locate emacs
it will list all it footprints in the system , then remove those emacs footprints by using rm command carefully.
It is not enough to
sudo apt-get remove emacs
You have to do
sudo apt-get remove emacs emacs23 emacs24
Then
locate emacs
keeps silent :-)