GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait

lisah writes "After keeping users waiting for nearly six years, Emacs 22 has been released and includes a bunch of updates and some new modes as well. In addition to support for GTK+ and a graphical interface to the GNU Debugger, 'this release includes build support for Linux on AMD64, S/390, and Tensilica Xtensa machines, FreeBSD/Alpha, Cygwin, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9 with Carbon support. The Leim package is now part of GNU Emacs, so users will be able to get input support for Chinese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and other languages without downloading a separate package. New translations of the Emacs tutorial are also available in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Italian, French, and Russian.'"

Comments

Re:Nobody Cares.

[TheRaven64]

I don't usually troll, but I couldn't resist tagging this article 'vi'. Let the flames commence.

EMACSOS

[JustNiz]

EMACS is a great operating system, it just needs a good editor.

md5 ?

[dougmc]

From the announcement --

The MD5 check-sum is the following:

6949df37caec2d7a2e0eee3f1b422726 emacs-22.1.tar.gz

Please send any bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org. You can use the
function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this.

Somebody needs to tell RMS that since emacs 21 came out, md5 has been cracked. Well, perhaps cracked isn't the right word, but it's not cryptographically secure anymore.

Of course, it's quite possible that RMS doesn't really care, and he's only giving us the md5sum so we can make sure it wasn't corrupted accidently somehow (as opposed to being changed and then modified to give the same md5sum.) But if that were the case, a CRC32 value would be almost as good.

Of course, I'm not sure SHA1 is that much better.

Re:Nobody Cares.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Icon factories. That just made my day.

I keep bashing all this eclipseholics that call themselves coders. Icon factories is the BEST definition EVER for this stupid IDEs.

I barely get out of Emacs for anything ... i wish i could C-c b bathroom, that way i would really have no need to live my Emacs session ever.