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."

Let's get these out of the way

[slimjim8094]

Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, it's a great OS but it needs a text editor, etc.

Seriously though, it's really excellent that such a mature project can continue to advance. Not many projects can continue to grow for 36 years

Re:This is an outrage!!

[tuffy]

It's been done. [emacswiki.org]

Re:I wonder

[knuthin]

Did you ever feel that "emacs -nw" takes a while to start? Even more than vim or gVim?

Referring to what vlm said: I don't know what emacs does or how it starts, but I guess it is doing too much of computation on things that make it an IDE (or an OS) than a simple text editor.

Re:I wonder

[tuffy]

A more common issue is that Emacs just isn't installed by default on as many servers. So it's a good idea to know how to use vi to go to a line, perform a search, insert some text and save the file at the very least.

Pico

[tepples]

That or learn Pico. Just about every shell account I've used has had either Pico or GNU Nano installed.

Re:I wonder

[Bill_the_Engineer]

I think continued use of either piece of software reflects a rigid anti-change mentality that is stuck in the past and against learning new things.

It could indicate that the editors are very good, perform their tasks well, and the new things aren't good enough to replace either vim or emacs. Why learn a new editor just for the sake of using a new editor?