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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 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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    1. Re:Emacs OS by ThePhilips · · 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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  3. Re:I think I know the question on all our minds by fahrbot-bot · · 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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  4. Re:do one thing and do it well by phantomfive · · 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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  5. Re:I think I know the question on all our minds by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You make the mistake of thinking that emacs is a text editor. Emacs is an extensible framework, a display system with lots of scripting code underneath. In the early days it was basically just a text editor plus shell interface, but that quickly grew and the program became more flexible.

    This is just like web browsers, which are basically just display systems designed to handle an arbitrary set of layouts that are given to it. In the early days they basically just gave you a list of scientific articles from the net and then would kick off an ftp program to fetch them for you, but today they can show video and let you do banking and so forth.