Emacs 24.1 Released 161
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from the latest-version dept.
First time accepted submitter JOrgePeixoto writes "Emacs 24.1 has been released. New features include a new packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages), support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp, improvements to the Custom Themes system, unified/improved completion system in many modes and packages and support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3,
ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2."
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi".
LiveCD (Score:5, Funny)
Where can I download the LiveCD?
Re:I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi".
Nah, people realized it was silly to still be comparing a text editor to an OS.
Re:I wonder (Score:4, Funny)
But LEXICAL SCOPING isn't one of them!
This is an outrage!! (Score:2, Funny)
Honestly I'm frankly quite insulted to think that there was anything emacs couldn't do. Features? We don't need any more features. How do you improve on perfection?
Actually the only thing emacs is missing is an interface more like VI.
*ducks*
Re:Let's get these out of the way (Score:5, Funny)
Not many projects can continue to grow for 36 years
No shit. Thank the gods that RAM and HDDs have kept pace!
Re:I wonder (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I wonder (Score:4, Funny)
But LEXICAL SCOPING isn't one of them!
oh bitch - I'll scratch your eyes out
Wow! (Score:4, Funny)
Wow! Emacs now has more features than BSD!
Catching up to ten-year-old XEmacs features (Score:4, Funny)
Ahh, it's nice to see GNU Emacs finally bothering to catch up to these ten-year-old XEmacs features.
Re:I wonder (Score:4, Funny)
A real emacs user doesn't "light up emacs" to make trivial changes to configuration files - a real emacs logs directly into emacs as login shell in /etc/passwd
FTFY.
Re:I wonder (Score:2, Funny)
So you don't use Emacs as replacement for /sbin/init? How quaint!
Re:I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
My fave emacs joke:
Emacs would be a hell of an operating system if someone would just write a decent text editor for it.