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

Nobody Cares.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody cares. We're all using VI now.

Feature Rich

[king-manic]

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.

Re:Feature Rich

[Mattintosh]

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!

Re:Feature Rich

[larry bagina]

the hot asian girlfriend writes your code, silly.

Re:Feature Rich

[king-manic]

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

Y'know...

[Colin Smith]

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

Obligatory flamebait

[Alioth]

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

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

Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars

[plams]

Don't compare apples to.. operating systems.

Using Emacs to edit a text file is like...

[toadlife]

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

OMG, what next??

[mobby_6kl]

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.

Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars

[BobNET]

Hell, even The Beatles use Vi...

He didn't say "hot"

[SanityInAnarchy]

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.

Re:He didn't say "hot"

[dstar]

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.

Re:Don't forget

[marcosdumay]

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.

Re:We were always using VI

[Mr. Underbridge]

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.

You're so lucky

[ericferris]

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.

You shouldn't boot emacs right away

[ericferris]

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.

Re:We were always using VI

[Javagator]

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

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

obligatory

[DeepHurtn!]

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

Re:Another keyboard shortcut

[ic4x0r]

especially if you're a rectangle.