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.

Comments

I don't understand

[XBL]

why people think Emacs is so great? I've found a lot of other editors out there that are much faster and user-friendly.

It must be a cult thing...

Whoh!

[gatesh8r]

A new release of an editor that thinks it's an OS! What next, a new release of a web browser that thinks its an OS? Oh yeah...

VI!

[gooberguy]

In other news, VIM 7.0 was released, with more obscure and impossible-to-remember commands than ever before!

D/\ Gooberguy

Re:My First Emacs Encounter

[An Ominous Coward]

There's a difference between needing the fancy auto complete functions and using the fancy auto complete functions. If they guy was actually any good then he could have used the IDE to dramatically improve his productivity. Of course, you're obviously lying, because knowledgable and skillfull people do not use Java.

Emacs vs VI = Good vs Evil

[MSBob]

Well I don't want to spread any rumours here but it is a common knowledge these days that vi is the preferred editor of the members of the al-Qaeda group led by Osama bin Laden. Not that I'm trying to stereotype vi users here but I think everyone should draw their own conclusions in the light of what was said above. Thank you.