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Emacs Hits Version 23

Posted by timothy on from the actually-includes-duke-nukem-forever dept.

djcb writes "After only 2 years since the previous version, now emacs 23 (.1) is available. It brings many new features, of which the support for anti-aliased fonts on X may be the most visible. Also, there is support for starting emacs in the background, so you can pop up new emacs windows in the blink of an eye. There are many other bigger and smaller improvements, including support for D-Bus, Xembed, and viewing PDFs inside emacs. And not to forget, M-x butterfly. You can get emacs 23 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ or one of its mirrors; alternatively, there are binary packages available, for example from Ubuntu PPA."

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  1. Missed the best feature! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary misses the absolute best new feature: the separation of the client and server. I have a GUI Emacs running on my workstation, always. I sshed in a few days ago, wishing I could access one of its buffers. Voila! emacsclient -nw connected to the underlying server and gave me full access, in console mode, to the running Emacs. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
    1. Re:Missed the best feature! by zeromorph · · Score: 5, Informative

      They also missed to mention the full unicode support, which is quite nice.

      Anyway they could have linked to NEWS.23.1, which has a concise list of new feature.

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      "Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
  2. Re:Congrats! by Hammer · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is good news indeed

    Thanx RMS for more than 20 years w the only editor

  3. Re:Word wrapping by the+Atomic+Rabbit · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. M-x visual-line-mode RET (or Options->Line Wrapping->Word Wrap)
    2. Live happily ever after.

  4. Re:Eight megs and constantly swapping by __1200333 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope you're joking. About everything. Maybe you're even making some convoluted commentary about vim being impossible to use without knowing its secrets (but I think emacs is also guilty).

    1) you can save directly from the scratch buffer
    2) emacs --help clearly says use -nw for text mode (it's obviously also in the man page, but a little harder to find)

    Maybe attempt #5 will work out better for you. I'm on attempt #3 myself. Perhaps try growing a giant unkempt beard or something. Good luck to both of us!