GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today

Posted by timothy on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:26AM 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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Re:Emacs OS by ThePhilips · 2014-10-20 10:56 · Score: 5, Informative

It is perilously close to an operating system - in stark contrast to the usual unix philosophy of small tools to do single jobs well.
GNU is not Unix. :)
Emacs is not based on the UNIX.
It is based on the lisp machines.
The lisp machine have died, but Emacs still lives on.

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Re:I think I know the question on all our minds by fahrbot-bot · 2014-10-20 11:40 · Score: 4, Informative

Can it read e-mail?
Serious question?
Answer: I was able to read email and news within Emacs in the late 1980s. I imagine that's still true :-)

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