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Whats New in Emacs 24
- eeperson 16y agohttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00272.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg002... Does anyone know if the concurrency and lexbind features are still planned to be part of Emacs 24?
- docgnome 16y agoI really hope so. Mostly concurrency.
- gsivil 16y agoInteresting post. It would be nice if someone could link to a site or blog with more details and/or discussion about the new features in Emacs 24.
- danh 16y agoHere is the entire list of new stuff: http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/etc/NEWS http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/etc/NEWS
- sigzero 16y agoNothing really "killer" though Bidi is nice. I just setup emacs (trying to learn it to compare to Vim) the other day on my Mac.
- hasenj 16y agoI wish vim gets the bidi support as well. It gets it automatically on a terminal that supports it (such as konsole) but having it sort of built in would be nice.
- nagnatron 16y agoA standard package system is THE feature of Emacs 24.
- zitterbewegung 16y agoI have been using the package manager and it is a much better way to install programs in emacs than the old way of modifying your .emacs and specifying a load path. It works very well. I wish more people would upload packages to the main repository but putting this in emacs 24 will probably accelerate this.
- wfarr 16y agoEmacs 24 by default uses the GNU package archive, which is limited to software they want on it. However, `package.el` defines an alist of `package-archives` which you can add entries to. My hope is that then someone will end up creating a less restrictive package archive to complement the offerings in the GNU one. Nathan Weizenbaum, of Haml fame, has done some work on a project for creating Emacs Lisp package archives and an accompanying front-end here: http://code.google.com/p/marmalade/ http://code.google.com/p/marmalade/
- rmaccloy 16y agoIt's just an integration of ELPA (http://tromey.com/elpa/ http://tromey.com/elpa/) which has been around for quite a while. According to the mailing lists Tom Tromey will continue to maintain his archive in parallel. I'm not sure what licensing restrictions he has but I'm fairly sure you don't have to assign copyright as per FSF projects.
- kleiba 16y agoI never thought putting two or three lines of elisp code in my .emacs file for every package was such a big deal. Actually, as much as I love apt-get on my linux box, I also like the (perceived) feeling of control when I modify my load-path and add a (require) or an (autoload). I never had the feeling that I need a package manager to handle my external packages. Thinking about that now I guess it's because the packages I use share little to no interdependencies. I'd say that it's the latter where a package system has a really strong point. But anyway, I'm looking forward to the new feature. I could image it'll be fun to browse a package directory and just randomly try new extensions out, just to see if I like them and be able to get rid of them as easily as I've installed them. Cool.
- danh 16y agoEmacs 24 also has a new minor mode, electric-pair-mode, that auto-inserts matching parens à la Textmate. Quite useful.
- rbanffy 16y agoKnowing Emacs, it can probably be convinced to generate all kinds of brackets, HTML tags and so on, based on what major mode is running.
- jbellis 16y agohttp://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates What changed to go from releases every 4-7 years, to releases every 1-2 years?
- abrahamsen 16y agoMy guess: New maintainers: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02140.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021... I like the new policy, which seems to be one potentially disrupting new technology per major release. Previously, major releases tried to do too much at once, which lead to some very unstable and sometimes alienating .0 releases.
- rbanffy 16y agoIt's really hard to find features missing from Emacs after 23 releases.
- gcr 16y agoNo kidding! Emacs 23 even added support antialiased text for heavens sake. Who needs such a useless feature?
- rbanffy 16y agoEmacs always had anti-aliased text if you used it within a terminal that had it. I never missed anti-aliased text that much - there are plenty of good fonts that render well without it. Now that it has, it looks much better. However, the idea of giving up its power in order to get pretty fonts with a lesser editor is ludicrous.
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- redsymbol 16y agoEmacs is one of those software systems I'm really grateful for. My life is significantly better because I'm in a world where it exists - "better" meaning more joyful, more positively productive, and more enabled to be of service (since I use it for writing articles and opensource software, etc. Not to mention the code behind my company, so it's even helping me create jobs.)
- kleiba 16y agoSeconded. Even after years of using Emacs, I still have to stop for a moment every now and then and think: holy shit, what a motherflippin' piece of software! ...and I get really happy :-)
- psadauskas 16y agoI really, really want to use Emacs. I like the ideas, I like the addons, I like the lispiness. What I can't get over, though, is the pinky contortions and multiple chords required to accomplish things in the editor itself. I'm not a big fan of vimscript, and the addons seem more clunky, but being able to hit a single key, rather than a chord, or series of chords, to accomplish the basic text manipulations, makes it really hard for me to stop using vim and use emacs for more than a few days.
- p_nathan 16y agoYou can avoid somewhat of that with some considered keymappings. For instance, I remap Control to Alt a ton in emacs. It's very easy for me to thumb-key instead of pinky-key. YMMV, depending on keyboard and hand-size.
- alec 16y agoTry viper and/or vimpulse. It doesn't get you all the way to vim, but it gets most of the important stuff.
- lelele 16y agoOr vim-mode. Or ErgoEmacs.
- Bud 16y agoDoes anyone else feel like they are living in a pretty hilarious future realm when they see there's something called "Emacs 24" in the world? In 2150, will we be using "Emacs 395"? Maybe I should get my old vt100 out of the closet and see if it still works.
- dedward 16y agoIn 2150, roughly 139 years from now, assuming a major release every 2 years, we should be on emacs 93 or therabouts. As long as we still use text entry for programming, we'll still be using emacs.... it will keep up with the times.
- rbanffy 16y agoEmacs 395 would be much nicer than Visual Studio 2150 or an Eclipse named after a small asteroid that hasn't been discovered yet (because, by then, all rounded-body names will have been used)
- krobertson 16y ago"With the increasing popularity of distributed version control systems such as bzr" That is the first time I've seen anyone use Bazaar as an example of a DVC that is gaining in popularity.
- BCM43 16y agoIt's the one the emacs uses.
- rbanffy 16y agoIsn't it also used by Canonical's Launchpad?
- windsurfer 16y agoYes. If you've tried it, you may agree that bzr is to git as Ubuntu is to Debian.
- rbanffy 16y agoI never went beyond the basics with both git and bzr, so, they both look the same from here. In no small measure, I am happy I never gave them a serious problem to solve.
- zoul 16y agoSeriously, there are still some features left to be new in Emacs? :-)