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The Future of Emacs

Posted by Hemos on from the and-with-this-key-command-i've-macroed-child-raising! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you've not heard much about Emacs development in recent years, you might be surprised to find that it is has been very active. Emacs 22 will have many new features such as support for Mac OS X and Cygwin; mouse wheel support and many new modes and packages. It can also be built with Gtk+ widgets and supports drag and drop for X. The NEWS file details all the changes. Although its very stable, don't expect to see it released any time shortly because according to RMS, the Emacs developers haven't been fixing bugs quickly enough. Those who have followed Emacs for long enough might see a different pattern."

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  1. Personally.... by Eil · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'd rather wait for vim 7. :P

  2. Re:Times are changeing by masklinn · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Eclipse

    And some people are still claiming that Emacs is bloated.

    Eclipse is a piece of junk anyway, it isn't even fit for writing Java applications, IntelliJ IDEA is still miles ahead of that bloatcrap.

    --
    "The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
  3. Re:Emacs is nice, but conceptually dated... by Thomas+Miconi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C-x RET C-\

    Thanks for reminding me why I'm not an Emacs user ;)

    just by downloading that and adding this to your ~/.Xdefaults: (unreadable gibberish follows)

    Oh, thanks also for reminding us just how much the X font system sucks.

    Thomas--