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:do one thing and do it well by phantomfive · 2014-10-20 13:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm shocked (shorting out usb ports need fixing) I haven't seen this posted... I guess if it doesn't say systemd that rhetoric doesn't apply.
Because the people who don't like emacs don't use it. No one builds software with emacs as a dependency and then tried to get every Linux environment to use it as a core dependency.

Emacs is a good citizen. It is cross-platform, stable, and easily replaceable. Unlike it-that-must-not-be-named.

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"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Re:Start rant here by KingOfBLASH · 2014-10-20 15:15 · Score: 3, Insightful

Like so many things in emacs, this is probably easy to fix if only you spoke lisp ;)