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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."

6 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. M-x butterfly by cstdenis · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Best command ever.

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  2. Decent text editor still not included right? by dvh.tosomja · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Decent text editor still not included in this great operating system right?

  3. Obligatory XKCD by UnknowingFool · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Before anyone starts the emacs/vi wars: A primer

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  4. Re:emacs? emulate mac software by Em+Emalb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    /waves hand "The previous post was on topic."

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  5. oblig XKCD by speculatrix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    oblig xkcd reference

  6. Yabut by sconeu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Emacs isn't a text editor, it's an OS.

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