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Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com)

After four years of development there's a major new release of Emacs, the 40-year-old libre text editor with over 2,000 built-in commands. An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Emacs 25.1 now lets you embed GTK+ user interface widgets, including WebKitGTK+, "a full-featured WebKit port that can allow you to browse the internet and watch YouTube inside Emacs." And it can also load shared/dynamic modules, meaning it can import the extra functionality seen in Emacs Lisp programs. This version also includes enhanced the network security, experimental support for Cairo drawing, and a new "switch-to-buffer-in-dedicated-window" mode.
Emacs 25.1 is available at the GNU FTP server, and since it's the 40th anniversary of Emacs, maybe it's a good time for a discussion about text editors in general. So leave your best tips in the comments -- along with your favorite stories about Emacs, Vim, or the text editor of your choice. What comes to your mind on the 40th anniversary of Emacs?

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  1. Ohh ohh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it depend on systemd yet?

    1. Re:Ohh ohh! by sribe · · Score: 4, Funny

      WTF? Of course not, Emacs will embed systemd!

  2. My favorite Emacs joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs would be a hell of an operating system if someone would just write a decent text editor for it.

    https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

  3. What comes to your mind on the 40th anniversary? by Nutria · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I wanted an operating system to watch YT videos, I'd use Hurd!!!

    --
    "I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
  4. one thing the summary forgot to mention... by apcullen · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's totally better than vi

  5. Does C-x M-c M-butterfly still work? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because otherwise real programmers will have to use butterflies.