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There is a PPA for the snapshot https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs http://emacs.naquadah.org/ (Debian)

Complete list http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.24.1

They could add support for GCC (MinGW) and ship it.

No APL code? I'm disappointed!

Can you elaborate on that? Why does Unicode suck for Japanese text?

> Also UTF-8 string can't be cut at arbitrary position. Neither can be any other kind of Unicode string because of Combining Characters. That's why the Unicode standard (or an Anne…

ICU has some UTF-8 functionality. But ICU is really ugly. http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/utf-8

http://www.utf8everywhere.org/#faq.asians

The problem with start ups is that engineering is fun but business and administration is no fun. Nobody is enthusiastic about filling out tax forms and yelling at people because th…

Linux and *BSD have a fixed ABI for C++.

What about lwn.net?

Did you report that? It seems you should rather discuss that on the gcc mailinglists with the gcc developers.

I guess the reason for Google to start contributing to Clang and using it for their tools is the availability of the frontend. As far as I know the GCC developers made it extra har…

Why is the competition not-so-friendly? I believe GCC has already improved due to Clang at least a lot of the error message improvements in the last releases seem to be inspired by…

No. I'd rather like to see Linus talk about Linux (or git) and Bjarne talk about C++. That would be far more interesting than having them fight a flame war over such a silly issue …

That's just the question of having a license. Not whether the implementation is open source.

Microsoft is threatened. Selling Office (and Windows) licenses is the backbone of Microsoft and that's what's financing all the other adventures. Large companies have to buy Office…

> In order to "fully open source" it, they would have to include an open source H264/mp4 decoder. Which would probably not be allowed by everyone who owns H264. Alas. There are exi…

Apple doesn't use glibc.

I'd guess something between 150 MiB and 4 GiB.

> He did this so it would work better with tools like diff, patch, and version control in general. git supports a --color-words option which is quite handy for text. > I thought "h…

You can have all of that in Emacs and probably in vim as well. See ctags/etags, cedet, ropemacs (refactoring Python), xrefactory (refactoring C and C++), wrangler (refactoring Erla…

That lsb_release is "an optional package in many distributions" is only a minor complain: > There's already the lsb_release tool for this, why don't you just use that? Well, it's a…