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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. Re:They're getting paid how much? by masklinn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He's probably doing dev on Emacs, he's still the original author of the software.

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  2. Re:Support for OS X and Cygwin by TheGavster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No no, the question is whether OSX and Cygwin will run under Emacs!

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  3. I read that wrong at first by PrimeWaveZ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    When it said that Emacs was going to have support for Mac OS X and Cygwin, I thought that they were going to integrate Mac OS X and Cygwin into Emacs. It made sense at first, but I read it a second time and realized that the project was not as ambitious as I thought it was.

  4. Bug fixes? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will this release fix the strange unlogical keystrokes involving the meta key bug?

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