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GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hopefully-worth-waiting-for dept.

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.'"

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  1. Nobody Cares. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody cares. We're all using VI now.

    1. Re:Nobody Cares. by joe_bruin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Great, where can I download a boot disk?

  2. Feature Rich by king-manic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they finally add the "write my code for me" command? It seems to be one of the few things emacs hasn't implemented. I suppose a "materialize a 5'4 asian Girl Friend" command would be useful too. I think we should push for that in the next revision.

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    1. Re:Feature Rich by Mattintosh · · Score: 4, Funny

      I suppose a "materialize a 5'4 asian Girl Friend" command would be useful too. I think we should push for that in the next revision.

      Once that's implemented, the whole vi vs. Emacs thing is over.

      Hot asian girlfriend FTW!

    2. Re:Feature Rich by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

      the hot asian girlfriend writes your code, silly.

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    3. Re:Feature Rich by Pharmboy · · Score: 3, Funny

      So we could be talking about a chunky girl with mosquito bites, and a mouth full of crooked teeth, a strict no-sex-before-marriage policy, and a really foul attitude...

      But she would be open source, so you could change those features.

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    4. Re:Feature Rich by king-manic · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait a minute, the specs didn't call for her to be hot... It just said 5'4" and Asian...

      So we could be talking about a chunky girl with mosquito bites, and a mouth full of crooked teeth, a strict no-sex-before-marriage policy, and a really foul attitude... Like the kind that would be all screaming at you in Cantonese every night, unless you cater to her every whim, as uttered in broken, thickly-accented English - and then if you give her the boot she sneaks back into your place and steals or destroys all your stuff...

      See? SEE? Now do you understand why it's important to clearly and thoroughly define the requirements of your software before coding begins?

      I prefer my personal impelmentation of "5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0". It's a great improvement over "5'3 blonde German Girl friend v9.5" who was actually an upgrade on "5'5 filipina stripper Girl Friend v6.9". I still fondly remember the one I started with "5'1 half filipina half chinese Girl friend v.5.0" however that implementation was not as asthetically pleaseing as the other three and came with "waiting for marriage" DRM but was more stable then two of the other three.

      The current one ("5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0") is both stable, DRM free, include the "hot" feature and "sane" feature which some of the previous versions lacked. I was thinking of trying make the "threesome" feature but I might be pushing my luck :D

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  3. Re:NEW - DNF mode! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah. You enter /DNF and your code gets converted into spaghetti code that will take years to untangle. That's why you need good backups. Alas, the Emacs team didn't maintain good backups and the code got hosed when this command was tested. That's why it took six years. ;)

  4. Y'know... by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some day it's going to achieve sentience... Don't say I didn't warn you.

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  5. So EMACS really is like an operating system... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it takes about as long for GNU to release a new version as it takes Microsoft to release Vista.

    But who shed more features before going gold?

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  6. Obligatory flamebait by Alioth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it still (E)ventually (M)alloc (A)ll (C)ore (S)torage?

    Or is it just now Eight Hundred Megs And Constantly Swapping? :-)

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    1. Re:Obligatory flamebait by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 3, Funny

      So we can now call emacs for "Eight Megabyes And Ceased Swapping"?

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  7. I love the headline by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny
    As a long time vi user I can say this is the best thing that has been coughed up since the hairball my cat expelled last week.


    On the upside, matching our carpet to the color of the catfood has turned out to be a brilliant strategy so far.

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    1. Re:I love the headline by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny
      ...this is the best thing that has been coughed up since the hairball my cat expelled last week....


      So I take it whoever modded me as flamebait thinks this isn't the best thing that has been coughed up since the hairball incident? Will the persecution of emacs never end?????

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  8. Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars by plams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't compare apples to.. operating systems.

  9. Number One by MulluskO · · Score: 3, Funny

    So easy to use, no wonder it's number one!

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  10. Ok, but does it include... by frinkillo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a good editor?

    /me ducks

  11. For those of you...., by Chineseyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    For those of you who have been holding your breath you may now exhale.

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  12. Using Emacs to edit a text file is like... by toadlife · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...using a front-end loader to put out the cat.

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  13. OMG, what next?? by mobby_6kl · · Score: 4, Funny

    This must be the third horseman. Let's just hope the unimaginable doesn't happen, and GNU doesn't puke out Hurd. That would mean the end of us all.

  14. I don't know who's a fault... by rthille · · Score: 3, Funny


    But I _still_ can't get GRUB to load it...I _still_ have to use this useless 'linux thingy' to invoke it!

    Won't someone please help me with replacing my Symbolics machine?

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  15. Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars by BobNET · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, even The Beatles use Vi...

  16. He didn't say "hot" by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Emacs asian girlfriend will cook, clean, balance your checkbook, do your taxes, and never, ever complain... but she weighs 300 lbs.

    Vi asian girlfriend just stands there looking pretty, but if you thought you were going to get anything done, you're sadly mistaken. It'll take you a week to figure out how to get that dress off...

    Vim asian girlfriend will do anything you ask, as soon as you learn the language. Fortunately, most of us know words like "Bukakke" already, and it doesn't take much.

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    1. Re:He didn't say "hot" by dstar · · Score: 5, Funny

      MS Word asian girlfriend is actually nouveau riche white trash with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetic surgery, but she's already done the entire city and she's got a collection of diseases that would make the CDC jealous.

    2. Re:He didn't say "hot" by revengebomber · · Score: 3, Funny

      MS Word asian girlfriend is actually nouveau riche white trash with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetic surgery, but she's already done the entire city and she's got a collection of diseases that would make the CDC jealous. Brittany Spears?
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  17. Re:Don't forget by marcosdumay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yep... And Debian has just released another stable, just a bit more than a year after the last one... And the new emacs is released... What is up with all those things?!?!?! Will we have perl6 and hurd released now?!?!?!

    The world is a crazy place.

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  18. Re:Nobody Cares. - my experience by alienmole · · Score: 3, Funny

    PS: emacs users, pls dont kill me.. I have not YET switched and still visit emacs church. Vim user, you dont kill me either for I am your potential convert. Thanks!
    Too late - to paraphrase Agent Smith, you're already dead. If you decide to switch, emacs users will kill you. If you don't decide to switch, vi users will kill you. One of your lives had a future, but for some reason, you opened your mouth and picked the one that does not. Goodbye, Mr. NovaSupreme.
  19. Re:brokeback editor by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I'm wary of any editor that takes the commands through the colon. Add on a Brokeback reference, and my homometer is going haywire!

    I kid, I kid... I personally use both Emacs and Vim

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  20. Re:We were always using VI by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs 22 took six years, just to find anything Emacs 21 didn't already offer...

    Sure. Now maybe that they're done with that, they'll finish Hurd.

  21. You're so lucky by ericferris · · Score: 5, Funny

    My programming instructor said he had an evil boss at a government job who made him use Emacs.

    You're lucky. *My* evil boss makes me edit Java and XML with Excel.

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  22. You shouldn't boot emacs right away by ericferris · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd wait a bit before booting emacs. It is said that emacs is a very nice operating system, but it lacks a good editor.

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  23. Re:We were always using VI by Javagator · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now maybe that they're done with that, they'll finish Hurd.

    If you have Emacs, you don't need Hurd.

  24. obligatory by DeepHurtn! · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I hear it's still missing a text editor. :(

  25. vi-mode for Emacs, the code by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Well... it's got a vi mode.

    Here is vi-mode for emacs (with apologies to Erik Naggum):


    (defun vi-mode ()
        (interactive)
        (use-global-map (make-keymap))


    Whatever you do, it will just beep annoyingly at you.

  26. Re:Another keyboard shortcut by ic4x0r · · Score: 4, Funny

    especially if you're a rectangle.