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GNU Emacs Now Has Native Support For GTK Widgets (phoronix.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-tool-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The GNU Emacs text editor now has merged the X Widgets branch. What this work allows is for embedding GTK+ user interface widgets within Emacs for features like landing MPlayer or a full web browser in Emacs. This allows now for more endless opportunities for the 40 year old GNU text editor. The X/GTK widgets support will come with GNU Emacs 25.1.

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  1. Re:Old joke even more true.... by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs is the purest implementation of Zawinski's Law

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  2. Re:EMACS Memory Footprint? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fresh instance of emacs: $0
    Fresh instance of Sublime Text: $70

    I think I'll stick to emacs

  3. In 2017 by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will we be seeing a Slashdot story about how emacs now has native support for systemd?

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