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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. Re:I wonder by jrumney · · Score: 5, Informative

    $ time emacs -nw -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"

    real 0m0.069s user 0m0.036s sys 0m0.012s
  2. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please learn about daemon mode.

    emacs --daemon
    alias edit='/usr/bin/emacsclient -n -c -a nano'
    edit somefile.txt

    If you didn't previously start emacs, it will start nano. Either way, you'll have super fast editing without the need for vi. Of course, you can always use vi in place of nano - or whichever editor you prefer.