Emacs 24.1 Released

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."

M-x tetris

[tepples]

And I bet Alexey Pajitnov is still not happy about M-x tetris [gnu.org], seeing as he thinks free software destroys the market [slashdot.org].

Re:I wonder

[Anonymous Coward]

for X forwarding blah blah blah

On the contrary, as a die-hard emacs user, I alias emacs to /usr/bin/emacs -nw when I'm not on an operating system that offers a version compiled without X support. Text editors, of all things, should respect being run in TTYs.

Re:I wonder

[CronoCloud]

Obligatory XKCD reference:

There's an emacs command for that, ol C-x M-c M-butterfly

http://xkcd.com/378/ [xkcd.com]

Re:I wonder

[Ed Avis]

X forwarding? You mean you've never tried emacs in tty mode? You haven't *lived*! IMHO, the days of having to use some other editor to make a 'quick change' are past. Modern hardware is so quick that starting emacs to edit a config file is pretty much instant.

Re:I wonder

[jrumney]

$ time emacs -nw -Q --eval "(kill-emacs)"

real

0m0.069s

user

0m0.036s

sys

0m0.012s

Re:I wonder

[Anonymous Coward]

Please learn about daemon mode. [blogspot.com]

emacs --daemon
alias edit='/usr/bin/emacsclient -n -c -a nano'
edit somefile.txt

If you didn't previously start emacs, it will start nano. Either way, you'll have super fast editing without the need for vi. Of course, you can always use vi in place of nano - or whichever editor you prefer.