The Future of Emacs

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Posted by Hemos on Monday December 12, 2005 @01:17AM 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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Support for OS X and Cygwin by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · 2005-12-12 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Emacs 22 will have many new features such as support for Mac OS X and Cygwin
Since we're talking about Emacs here, it would be good to clarify whether Emacs will be running under OS X and Cygwin or the other way around.

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No wonder... by mrRay720 · 2005-12-12 01:21 · Score: 4, Funny

It's no wonder so many open source projects never make it as far as a v1 release - emacs is stealing all of the version numbers!

22!!
Emacs OS on Windows OS? by cfavader · 2005-12-12 01:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Emacs 22 will have many new features such as support for Mac OS X and Cygwin

Wait, so I can use my Emacs operating system on top my Windows operating system?

I'm still waiting for them to release an emacs that runs on the metal, without an inferior (read: not written in lisp) OS in the middle.
Re:No, thanks! by jcr · 2005-12-12 01:46 · Score: 5, Funny

real men use ed

No, real men use cat, and get it right the first time!

-jcr

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Re:Why emacs? by strider44 · 2005-12-12 01:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Have you ever been writing a document then suddenly thought "Gee I'd love to play chess at the moment"? With another editor you'd be stuffed - you'd probably have to open another program or something, but not with Emacs.

With Emacs you could be editing your document while chatting on IRC and checking your email, and you wouldn't even need another program. I heard with the new version it will make you tea and give you a massage. I know it already comes with a kitchen sink: apt says so.
Future of Emacs by gmuslera · 2005-12-12 01:59 · Score: 4, Funny
With such title i thinked the article would be something like:
- 2007- Emacs become an operating system
- 2010-Emacs gets renamed to Multivac
- 200000000- Emacs answers the question "how to reverse the entropy"
Re:Mouse wheel support by IainHere · 2005-12-12 02:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Are you sure that shouldn't be mouse-whe.el?
Re:Times are changeing by masklinn · 2005-12-12 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Of course some 400-500 MHz machines don't even support 5128 MB.

Most studies did indeed discover that 5Gb RAM was a bare minimum to run Eclipse.

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Uh huh by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2005-12-12 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

"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."

Yeah, it's really too bad they don't work quite as fast as those Hurd guys.

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Not their fault! by multipartmixed · 2005-12-12 04:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Overheard during an EMACS debugging session:

four-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-three, four-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-four, four-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-five, four-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-.... AHA!

I HAVE FOUND THE MISSING RIGHT PAREN!

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Re:They're getting paid how much? by cpeterso · 2005-12-12 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

RMS is too busy fixing bugs in GNU HURD.

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