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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. Re:Any OS X builds? by Zaurus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Someone on a slashdot post or blog somewhere posted instructions on how to build and install carbon emacs from CVS. I've used it on my PowerBook, and two MacBook Pro's (Core Duo, then Core 2 Duo) with great success.

    Here's the instructions I saved:

    mkdir ~/tmp
    cd ~/tmp
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
    cd emacs ./configure --enable-carbon-app
    make bootstrap
    make
    sudo make install

    Then I put the following in my .bashrc so that I can easily launch it from the command-line. The best part is that when you launch it in the background with a file argument, emacs grabs focus when it comes up. The emacs that requires Apple's X11 would never come to the front on launch.

    alias emacs="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emac s -g 110x40 --no-splash"

    (you may want to adjust the columns and width from 110 and 40 to your own preference)

    NOTE: I haven't tried this since 22 was officially released.