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Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features (lwn.net)
There's a new version of the 42-year-old libre text editor with over 2,000 built-in commands, reports LWN.net:
Highlights include a built-in Lisp threading mechanism that provides some concurrency, double buffering when running under X, a redesigned flymake mode, 24-bit color support in text mode, and a systemd [user] unit file.
The Free Software Foundation has released a 10,653-word description of all the new features in Emacs 26.1. Here's a couple more:
The Free Software Foundation has released a 10,653-word description of all the new features in Emacs 26.1. Here's a couple more:
- The Emacs server now has socket-launching support. This allows socket based activation, where an external process like systemd can invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and hand the socket over to Emacs... This new functionality can be disabled with the configure option '--disable-libsystemd'.
- The new function 'call-shell-region' executes a command in an inferior shell with the buffer region as input.
- Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
- The new user variable 'electric-quote-chars' provides a list of curved quotes for 'electric-quote-mode', allowing user to choose the types of quotes to be used.
hit ctrl-x SK option-N to toggle it off.
it's just like in the movie, except it talks with a LISP.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Otherwise, The Stallman will be unhappy and destroy the planet...
Once upon a time, there was a service called inet.d. With inetd it was super easy to write internet activated programs, with almost no extra effort. Service after service got added to inetd, because it was so easy.
Then one day, someone realized that inetd was a security risk. Not that it was inherently insecure, but that it was in fact harder than you would expect to write an inetd service that was secure, so there were a lot of security holes. As the knowledge of this spread, service after service got removed from inetd, and now on most Unix systems, it's not running at all.
There's a George Santayana quote in here somewhere. But what is it?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
you don't like emacs, go use sublime text or whatever hipster shit is currently out to make your cookiecutter html crap
I'm afraid I can't be bothered to switch to Emacs until it has a hypervisor, 3d rendering engine, distributed filesystem, and GPU-powered machine learning framework. Guess I'll stick with nano for a while longer...
Hillary WILL vim in 2020
FTFY?
Ezekiel 23:20
There is probably a drinking game to be invited here. For every 50 unique emacs command you call out before a foe they need to take a shot
... external process like systemd can invoke the Emacs server process ...
Let Emacs and SystemD duke it out for a while -- There can only be ONE!
[ We're all rooting for -- and counting on -- you Emacs to vanquish The Kurgan. ]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
What the hell does this have to do with AI?!
I find it amazing to have a piece of software that is 42 years old and still in active development. And usage. Think of it: Emacs invented the clipboard. And even though it recently has been beaten by other free editors in performance for larger files I do expect Emacs to take the crown again in upcoming versions.
I always use Emacs in CLI mode which is where it belongs IMHO.
Here's to another great 42 years!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Sometimes you just have to submit to the inevitable.
Hey look the spyocrats are telling us they will win. 99% chance of it too! Maybe if they just put 5 or 6 more people in his organization they can get the information to impeach drumpf!!!
Yes I know, Vi has been in emacs for decades...
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
socjus:1 enlightenment:0
emacs is "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"
As you may know, a year ago, scientists discovered an incredible event, a miracle really; the very first ever observed gravity waves! Produced by the incredible force of two neutron stars colliding, the collision is theorized to have produced a black hole, sucking everything nearby them into a deep spiraling abyss of mind bending complexity that has yet to be understood by any human.
Well ladies and gentleman, I am here to tell you that report was in error. Scientists have now confirmed it was merely the collision of emacs and systemd.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
I was first exposed to emacs at my job back in the 1980s, running on some kind of Vax, and it slowed the damn machine down, so I used vi instead, like everybody else. Then I got an Atari 520 ST. It had a minimal word processor, but no good text editor. So I downloaded micro-emacs off usenet from one of the alt-binary newsgroups. It was encoded into an ascii format using uuencode and you got the binary back using uudecode. (That's how things were done in the 80s). Anyway, it worked great! I use emacs now for a few things (I like being able to select a rectangle of text for instance). But my fingers would have never learned the basic text editing commands that are 95% of the keystrokes you use, if I hadn't learned them on micro-emacs.
So yeah, I always have emacs around, for those occasional times when it seems like the right tool, and that's partly because it's a tool I've already learned how to use, at least for certain things. At one time I did explore all the commands in emacs, and there were a few that I actually found handy and still use, like select rectangle, the rest I've forgotten, and I can't see myself ever learning any of the new stuff. But, if I was young, things might be different.
In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they're different. (Yogi Berra & A. Einstein)
Stallman is a libtard.
Poeterring will integrate it all into systemd, security problem solved.
Moral of story: Libtards are never wrong and there's nothing you can do to stop them. AE911Truth dot Org
Will systemd extinguish emacs when an editor is implemented or will emacs kill systemd by adding an init feature? Which one will evolve into an operating system first?
I thought SystemD already included a complete Office suite.
Well, I guess, all shells are inferior comparing to emacs.
"where an external process like systemd can invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and hand the socket over to Emacs."
They made a text editor intentionally insecure?
have they learned nothing?
At least they’re a nerd. You’re just gay!!
Really, are you sure Hillary will be healthy enough? Of course you just need to ignore the falling down stairs, fainting, and lets not forget the obvious back brace that she is trying to hide by wearing tons of clothes in the summer.
You might have better luck with Polosi who said "High employment figures are not important"....pure genious that one.
At the rate the DNC and the left is going, its possible that the Republicans will pick up a couple seats in both houses. I'm betting there enough people willing to vote right just to teach the liberal left a lesson.
-geekpoet
When two heavyweight objects like Emacs and systemd merge in this manner, we should be able to detect the resulting gravitational waves. Expecting to see results soon from LIGO.
But its nice to see that it is still swelling.
In the past XEmacs had some advantages over Emacs. Is this still true?
43.22 MBs of xz-compressed emacs is too fat.
I need a lightweight editor for simple things as geany or notepad++, not this monster that does more slow with this low throughput of my old hard disk of my old laptop.
Why have i to memorize the thousands of emacs's commands that i won't use almost of them in all my life?
right now the only editor that works for me with huge files is kinesics.
Think of it: Emacs invented the clipboard
I wish other editors (any other editors) would take the trouble to copy the aspects of Emacs that are still vastly better all these many years later, so much so to the point where I still leave any IDE from time to time to do editing in Emacs...
For clipboards, I can copy fragments into named buffers and take them out again super easily, so I can have several different text fragments stored away for easy recall later.
That turns out to be super handy in combination with the other thing Emacs does right and no other editor has ever got right - macros. In Emacs I can start recording a macro, search fir things, modify them (including using many of the stored text fragments saved off into buffers, or storing text into named text buffers in the middle of the macro to shift it around as part of the macro). Then I can either just replay that macro as many times as I like to fix up similar blocks of text the same way in a file, or save off the macro for later use (in a text format that I can edit and tweak if I choose).
I would even question if it's truly been beaten for large file support when the actions you can take on said large file is probably way more limited.
I always use Emacs in CLI mode which is where it belongs IMHO.
I use Aquamacs on the Mac and I think it works pretty well (or at least is not detrimental), sometimes I still use the CLI but GUi integration is useful.
At least on a Mac I can have a shadow of the copy/paste support by using Cmd-C to copy one thing, Ctrl-K to cut another (which is the Emacs command for kill, which cuts a line and text and places it in he kill buffer). Then I can use Cmd-V and Ctrl-Y to get them both out again.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I can write one, for a fee. But it would be cheaper for you to buy something like UltraEdit ($99).
its full of features!
Still missing the kitchen sink feature.
I fondly remember writing many TECO macros to extend emacs. I also wrote many many moclisp extensions for emacs and rewrote several bits of moclisp. I haven't used emacs much in a long time, just because I haven't had the time while using other IDE's these days. Its nice to see people are still working on it and if I get time, I will improve it.
All it needs now is a decent text editor.
Well, EMACS is a nice operating system, too bad it is still lacking a decent editor...
Have they added a text editing function? I could really use a new editor.