I suggest to anyone serious w/ Emacs to follow the master branch. I have been compiling once a week since almost a year and did not experience any breakage. My routine is fetch, see the output from "git diff HEAD..FETCH_HEAD -- etc/NEWS | less", pull --ff, compile and install. The benefit being you don't get a whole bunch of news when you update to a major version, but get there gradually; and also the master has the newer features. They keep that branch really stable.
Emacs 26.1 released
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Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#12Scrolling with the trackpad seems way better by default, no more mouse-wheel-scroll-amount/mouse-wheel-progressive-speed hacks !
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#13Does anyone know if the concurrency support has made it into TRAMP yet? I recently switched to sshfs because I couldn't stand having TRAMP block my editor while saving remote files.
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#14I suggest to anyone serious w/ Emacs to follow the master branch. I have been compiling once a week since almost a year and did not experience any breakage. My routine is fetch, see the output from "git diff HEAD..FETCH_HEAD -- etc/NEWS | less", pull --ff, compile and install. The benefit being you don't get a whole bunch of news when you update to a major version, but get there gradually; and also the master has the…
I similarly encourage any Mac users who are serious about emacs to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's fork, which adds several usability improvements that RMS refuses to endorse and is just generally a better experience on Mac. Mainline GNU Emacs feels clunky and obsolete by comparison.
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#15There isn't a windows compile available yet 8( -- yes, i don't have a choice at work.
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#16I suggest to anyone serious w/ Emacs to follow the master branch. I have been compiling once a week since almost a year and did not experience any breakage. My routine is fetch, see the output from "git diff HEAD..FETCH_HEAD -- etc/NEWS | less", pull --ff, compile and install. The benefit being you don't get a whole bunch of news when you update to a major version, but get there gradually; and also the master has the…
I similarly encourage any Mac users who are serious about emacs to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's fork, which adds several usability improvements that RMS refuses to endorse and is just generally a better experience on Mac. Mainline GNU Emacs feels clunky and obsolete by comparison.
that RMS refuses to endorse
What's his rationale?
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#17this is pretty cool:
> TRAMP has a new connection method for Google Drive
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I similarly encourage any Mac users who are serious about emacs to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's fork, which adds several usability improvements that RMS refuses to endorse and is just generally a better experience on Mac. Mainline GNU Emacs feels clunky and obsolete by comparison.
that RMS refuses to endorse What's his rationale?
NIH?
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#19A few more (personal) highlights from the release: * New minor mode 'pixel-scroll-mode' provides smooth pixel-level scrolling. * The networking code has been reworked so that it's more asynchronous than it was (DNS resolution and TLS negotiation do not block Emacs main thread). * Emacs no longer prompts about editing a changed file when the file's content is unchanged. Instead of only checking the modification time,…
Also better look and feel[1] for Mac (including dark mode) users with
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-transparent-titlebar . t))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-appearance . dark))
Re: Emacs 26.1 released
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I similarly encourage any Mac users who are serious about emacs to use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's fork, which adds several usability improvements that RMS refuses to endorse and is just generally a better experience on Mac. Mainline GNU Emacs feels clunky and obsolete by comparison.
that RMS refuses to endorse What's his rationale?
That Mac-only features would promote (the closed source) Mac OS X, if I remember correctly.