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GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today

Posted by timothy on from the please-have-more-than-8-megs-of-RAM dept.

New submitter Shade writes Well over one and a half years in the works, the latest and greatest release of GNU Emacs was made officially available today. Highlights of this release include a built-in web browser, improved multi-monitor and fullscreen support, "electric" indentation enabled by default, support for saving and restoring the state of frames and windows, pixel-based resizing for frames and windows, support for digitally signed ELisp packages, support for menus in text terminals, and much more. Read the official announcement and the full list of changes for more information.

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  1. Sounds nice by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if it only included a text editor.

    1. Re:Sounds nice by xaosflux · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ahh, first post, I bet you prepped this offline in vi for super-speedy readiness.

    2. Re:Sounds nice by cold+fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

      What do you mean? Emacs can emulate vi.

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    3. Re:Sounds nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or a systemd dependancy.

    4. Re:Sounds nice by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 2, Funny

      What do you mean? Emacs can emulate vi.

      That's the best way to use it.

    5. Re:Sounds nice by ls671 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Only Linux versions using systemd are supported for now.

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  2. Emacs OS by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Funny

    Emacs OS - I know it is missing a text editor - but does it support systemd?

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  3. An integrated web browser? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Systemd had that since release 215.

  4. Re:I think I know the question on all our minds by Wintermute__ · · Score: 3, Funny

    M-x doctor
    M-x hanoi
    M-x tetris

    But you knew that already, didn't you?