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Emacs 23 is very near
- socratees 17y agoI was SO eagerly waiting for anti-aliasing on emacs. Now it should be awesome.
- dimitar 17y agoI for one don't really like it or need it. My emacs looks great with the bitmap font I'm using - terminus. The new packages in the standard distribution are great thought.
- mapleoin 17y agoYeah, I'm using terminus now, too. It's awesome! I went through a great deal of pain to get emacs 23 and try out some new fonts, but then discovered terminus and now it's relatively useless :)
- jsonscripter 17y agoI personally don't like terminus, so this anti-aliasing is great for Deja Sans Mono :)
- mapleoin 17y agothat's what I was using before ;) To be honest I switched to Terminus when I bought a new laptop with 1680x1050 on 15'' and I wanted to fit more text on the screen. Terminus is really great at small sizes. For everything else there's Deja Vu.
- daleharvey 17y agoI have been using emacs-snapshot even since I started using emacs regularly purely for the anti-alisaing, it really does feel so much nicer.
- amichail 17y agoEmacs is overkill and has very poor default key bindings. Windows has notepad++, which is an excellent free editor. On the Mac I use Aquamacs Emacs, which is ok, but I would still prefer something like notepad++. (For coding I use the xcode editor.)
- jrockway 17y agoHow does this relate to the article?
- amichail 17y agoIt's time for people to move on from Emacs. Development effort would be better spent on lightweight editors that complement modern IDE editors (e.g., the Java editor in Eclipse).
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoMost Emacs users love Emacs because of the amount of customization it offers, not because of the keybindings. In fact, I've never seen an Emacs user who hasn't customized his keybindings. I don't get what you mean by "moving on". Just because people started writing Emacs 30 years ago does not mean the code is crufty and old. Both Emacs and Vim work well with all modern desktop environments on all major operating systems. I don't see why anyone should be "moving on". You might love your IDE, but many people hate them. Some of us don't like bloated software with features we don't need or use. (I'm a Vim user, BTW :) )
- dryicerx 17y agoD-Bus support will open a whole new box of possibilities, I can't wait. Time to start hacking away writing a Pidgin <-> Emacs interface. M-x butterfly as well.
- dave_au 17y agoI've been using the dbus support with the CVS snapshot for a while now - it's nice. So far I've only been using it to control workrave and to bring up compilation messages with the system notification handler for long running compiles. Still, I've been liking it a lot.
- rincewind 17y agoso what does M-x butterfly do?
- gjm11 17y agoSee http://xkcd.com/378/ http://xkcd.com/378/ . (Which actually says C-x M-c M-butterfly, but that doesn't make much sense.)
- jsonscripter 17y agoThere's no way it actually does that. What does it actually do?
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- andreyf 17y agoNo static bound variables in elisp? :( D-Bus sounds exciting - does anyone know if there's any chance this will allow emacs to interface with firebug?
- wingo 17y agoYou mean lexically bound variables perhaps? There is lexical-let from 'cl, but that's not the same thing. OTOH Guile's elisp compiler does compile lexical bindings efficiently. It's a complementary tack to the lexbind branch of Emacs proper.
- capablanca 17y agoSuppose the compiler is done.. what wouild be the difficulties for using it on Emacs (apart from convincing rms)?
- wingo 17y agoGetting the C shims right, and ensuring that it really implements elisp as emacs does -- to the point that elisp programmers can't tell the difference. The C question is much more difficult, though. The goal is for Guile in Emacs to be the obvious, no-brainer choice. Hopefully that will be the case, but there is some hacking yet to be done.
- thunk 17y agoThe development snapshots have been perfectly usable for a while now, but this is news nonetheless. It's purdy with droid sans.
- kzar 17y agoOoo I can't wait
- kzar 17y ago(That sounded sarcastic in hindsight but it wasn't)
- jrockway 17y agoJust compile the CVS version and use that, then? That's what many of us have been doing for years -- Emacs 23's exciting new features are mostly very old news :)
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoJust do an aptitude install emacs-snapshot if you're on Ubuntu. (Debian might have that package too, but I'm not sure.)
- BearOfNH 17y agoIn Emacs 22 about the largest file I can edit is 27MB. From the lack of hype I take it Emacs 23 won't improve on that. This is on 32-bit WinXP, sadly. It's a heck of a lot easier to pore thru a huge trace file with an intelligent editor. Instead, I get to use Notepad.
- mulander 17y agoI have no problems with large files - using Emacs 23 from http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html. The file on the screenshot is ~156MB took several seconds to load but after that all operations on it are instant. http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9108/emacslargefile.png http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9108/emacslargefile.png The blacked out parts are work related - sorry.
- itgoon 17y agoWell, that's just sad, since Notepad loads the whole file into memory. Have you tried Notepad++ or UltraEdit? Colorization, smart handling of large files, etc.?
- Estragon 17y agoI tried switching to emacs 23, but the vc.el integration left much to be desired, for svn and CVS, and I switched back. (Yes, I know, why am I still using CVS, but there you go.)
- discojesus 17y ago"M-x butterfly (see [[%20http://xkcd.com/378/] http://xkcd.com/378/][ http://xkcd.com/378/]]) http://xkcd.com/378/]]) I'm still waiting for M-x kill-it-with-fire.
- jrockway 17y agoHow about: (defun kill-it-with-fire () (interactive) (loop for b in (buffer-list) do (kill-buffer b)))
- discojesus 17y agolooks like a good first start, but how do we add the fire?
- jrockway 17y ago(with-current-buffer b (ignore-errors (delete-file (buffer-file-name))) (kill-buffer))
- discojesus 17y agooh yes.
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