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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.'"

4 of 500 comments (clear)

  1. Why wait for Emacs... by DerCed · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why wait for Emacs... ..if you can use Vi.

  2. vi rocks, emacs sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *ducks

  3. Re:Nobody Cares. by Richard+McBeef · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody cares. We're all using VI now.

    It's always fun watching some who has never used vi try to use it. Especially a fatty. The mashing of the keys trying to switch between modes! It's hilarious.

  4. Re:We were always using VI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does it support the arrow keys on those new fangled 101-key keyboards now? It's been a while since I used it...