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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. 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!

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

    Wow! Emacs now has more features than BSD!

  5. 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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