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GNU Emacs 21
Alex writes: "After a wait worthy of the Mozilla project, GNU Emacs 21 is finally released! Image support, colour syntax highlighting on terminals, nice scrollbars and tooltips, it's all there folks. Also, for the first time in it's long illustrious history (and a step forward for GNU Project development in general) it's now available via anonymous CVS on savannah. No more waiting a year for the latest features... Now all we need is a port to GTK/GNOME...." Other submitters point out that the changelog is available through CVS (this is a serious changelog!), and you might try the mirrors, or maybe some light reading while you download.
Gtk/XEmacs is available here if you really want gtk. Unfortunately this is based on an earlier version of XEmacs (21.1.12, current is like 22 something I believe), but it does look nifty and fit with your other gtk apps if you have any. There are a few minor caveats:
It does look nifty, though (depending on your taste), as screenshots indicate.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Check out hideshow.el (which comes in Emacs 21).
I have also written some extensions to this package
AKA the ability to hide all function or method bodies in lisp and in java.
Kevin
Some of the new features of Emacs 21 will annoy those of us who are just too used to the old Emacs 20 interface. The following code will turn off the more "newbie-friendly" changes:
(setq emacs21 (eq emacs-major-version 21))
(when emacs21
(blink-cursor-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode -1)
(tooltip-mode -1)
(global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [end] 'end-of-buffer)
(setq rmail-confirm-expunge nil))
That said, a ton of the new features are very cool. The News file is gigantic... the new features I particularly like are mouse-avoidance mode, the scalable mini-windows, mouse-popup-menubar-stuff, flyspell-mode, cursor-type, and auto-image-file-mode. Have fun!
The *last* thing I want is my EMACS mixed up with GNOME/Gtk. One thing I love about EMACS is its portability. It's running right now on my Windows box at home and on my Linux box at work. Making standard EMACS depend on the GNOME/Gtk libraries would just make this lovable behemoth an ungodly piece of work that would only run on GNOME.
Thank goodness that someone did it to XEmacs, which is a better place for adding silly GNOME widgets. EMACS doesn't need widgets. All it needs is text. That's part of its beauty.
I have no particular aversion to using GNOME except that it's nowhere near as mature as EMACS, and I would hate updating all of my graphics libraries so I could use my favorite *text* editor.
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support for tooltips (I am working on an intellisense package)
Great. Just don't call it "intellisense" because IntelliSense is a trademark that someone owns. MS had to pay money to Ademco (a burglar alarm company with "IntelliSense" brand sensors) to get permission to use the "IntelliSense" brand.
Not to mention that if you go to intellisense.com you will find a MEMS company there.
Don't pull a Killustrator! Call it something else.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
Hey, if you want to code up a feature and call it IntelliSense, I'm not going to stop you. I am not a lawyer. But you would be running the risk that real lawyers would want to talk to you, in court perhaps, and that gets expensive in both money and time.
It would be even worse to write features similar to the ones Microsoft used the IntelliSense name on, and call those features "intellisense". MS absolutely would send lawyers after you then. After all, they paid money to use that trademark; why should they sit idle when someone else uses it for free?
And while you may not agree with me, I think it is common courtesy to not infringe on trademarks owned by other people. Microsoft can't add new features to Windows XP and call them the "Linux features" because Linux is a trademark belonging to someone else (Linus). If we want others to respect the trademarks we care about, we should respect the trademarks of others.
Trademarks don't give you a right to ban words from conversation.. they don't give a right to the owning corporation to have a word redefined at will.
Is "intellisense" a word? If MS "redefined" it, where was it first defined?
As long as a certain meaning is understood to refer to a specific thing, then no qualification is needed.
Are you a lawyer? Is this legal advice?
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely