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Emacs Hits Version 23
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."
Get a fast SSD and all your apps will start in the blink of an eye without memory-hogging quickstarters. Hell, even NetBeans loads in less than a second on my X25-E.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
it's a conspiracy. None of you are aware. emacs = Emulate Mac Software.
Solly, Chally. I said it, therefore it's true.
Seriously, though, happy 23rd rev, Emacs!
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According to Psychologist Zippy, people that focus on a "best of" feature tend to suffer from prior mental tramma that is slowly dominating the psyche and which may result in a sudden personal or societal failure in one's interactions with other people in the environment.
Perhaps you should be more concerned with the progress of eMacs in what you originally needed to use it for, rather than functions that extend its purpose. What does or did "eMacs" originally mean to Mr. Stallman and has his insecurity consumed him to embrace the product of one of his many multiple personality disorders into another? I recently recalled him on Slashdot posting as Anonymous soliciting hard anal sex in one post while in another in the same moment talking about the virtues of Free Software in GPL versus Open Source and public domain. I find this a striking problem that only heavy doses of Abilify(tm) and Lythium(tm) would remedy, but it all begins with him as a patient and his willingness to admit these facts himself first in-front of those that he has effected the most. Only then will the healing begin.
Let's all hold hands...