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Emacs 24.1 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the latest-version dept.

First time accepted submitter JOrgePeixoto writes "Emacs 24.1 has been released. New features include a new packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages), support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp, improvements to the Custom Themes system, unified/improved completion system in many modes and packages and support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3, ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2."

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  1. I wonder by aglider · · Score: 4, Funny

    whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi".

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    1. Re:I wonder by Baloroth · · Score: 5, Funny

      whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi".

      Nah, people realized it was silly to still be comparing a text editor to an OS.

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    2. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      But LEXICAL SCOPING isn't one of them!

    3. Re:I wonder by UnknowingFool · · Score: 2, Funny

      This was settled ages ago. Anyone who is a real programmer uses butterflies.

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    4. Re:I wonder by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

      But LEXICAL SCOPING isn't one of them!

      oh bitch - I'll scratch your eyes out

    5. Re:I wonder by idontgno · · Score: 3, Funny

      A real emacs user doesn't "light up emacs" to make trivial changes to configuration files - a real emacs logs directly into emacs as login shell in /etc/passwd

      FTFY.

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    6. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So you don't use Emacs as replacement for /sbin/init? How quaint!

    7. Re:I wonder by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 4, Funny

      My fave emacs joke:

      Emacs would be a hell of an operating system if someone would just write a decent text editor for it.

  2. LiveCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where can I download the LiveCD?

  3. This is an outrage!! by thegarbz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Honestly I'm frankly quite insulted to think that there was anything emacs couldn't do. Features? We don't need any more features. How do you improve on perfection?

    Actually the only thing emacs is missing is an interface more like VI.

    *ducks*

  4. Re:Let's get these out of the way by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not many projects can continue to grow for 36 years

    No shit. Thank the gods that RAM and HDDs have kept pace!

  5. Wow! by Chemisor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow! Emacs now has more features than BSD!

  6. Catching up to ten-year-old XEmacs features by kriston · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ahh, it's nice to see GNU Emacs finally bothering to catch up to these ten-year-old XEmacs features.

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