Will Emacs be updated to a more recent version? Current available version is 24.3 for Leap.
I’d say yes, if you ask when, I’d say soonish.when the editors repo do a LEAP build
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/editors/
in the meantime you can build it yourself from the source rpm or use the tw/13.2 build
https://software.opensuse.org/package/emacs