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

Don't forget

[SnowZero]

Release early, release often. Don't end up like Emacs.

Re:Nobody Cares.

[__aaclcg7560]

My programming instructor said he had an evil boss at a government job who made him use Emacs. Horrors! I think Emacs exist to scare the new generation into using VI.

We were always using VI

[SuperKendall]

But then once in a while, some among us elevated to a higher plane - the Emacs User. :-)

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

Re:We were always using VI

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Agreed. I Think it actually is a change you do out of necessity. When you find the need to edit at the same time +5 php files, php.ini, httpd.conf, a few very complex SQL sentences, and at the same time test those SQLs, those PHPs, restart services, and tail a few logfiles, all while checking e-mail, Emacs comes as a natural solution.

Re:Nobody Cares.

[bckrispi]

Emacs vs. vi?? They both suck!!

Re:Nobody Cares. - my experience

[poor_boi]

I love vim. vi is ok. vim is great.

vim is an editor that can be used as an ide. Emacs is an ide that can be used as an editor.

I can honestly recommend vim for use on every platform it supports, which is pretty much all of them, including amiga.

The only warning I would give is: bring patience with you. vi and vim do not become powerful until you become proficient at the keyboard commands, the modal system, and the command line commands. vim has a menuing system, but if you are a menu-only type of guy, why subject yourself to a new set of menus?

If you do not love and believe in vi's modal editing enough to learn it, use another editor.

pb

Re:Nobody Cares.

[smittyoneeach]

My son, the Esteemed Mother Among Computer Software smiles at you.
May the icon factories currently stuffing lesser programming tools with meaningless little objects of idolatry never pollute your conscious with bric-a-brac.
May you never touch an editor that is less than extensible, customizable, self-documenting, and resplendent, whether dressed in an X session or a humble terminal.
And may e vi l never your doorway darken, though emacs has a mode to help your recovery therefrom.