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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the church-of-Emacs dept.

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. What comes to your mind ... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    One thing comes to my mind... that Emacs has become far too bloated with feature creep.

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    allow you to browse the internet and watch YouTube inside Emacs

  3. 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...

    1. Re:My favorite Emacs joke by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 5, Informative

      Sadly, that joke is so old that it now has several answers. From newest to oldest, give-or-take:

      1. Evil
      2. Vimpulse
      3. Viper
      4. vim-mode

      It looks like Evil is the preferred option.

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  4. 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!!!

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  5. one thing the summary forgot to mention... by apcullen · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's totally better than vi

  6. 23 years ago by vikingpower · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First job, at Airbus, Toulouse, France. Fresh from university (I'd graduated in maths). I was shown my desk and computer. The OS was some flavour of Unix I've forgotten about. My first assignment was "to have a look at this programming language, ADA, and learn about the customized preprocessor #pragma entries Airbus uses". I asked "but how the hell do I edit this?"

    "Oh, most of us here use emacs". I was baffeld. Learned it, painfully so. Never looked back to another editor.

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