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A 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,…
A 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)) [1]: https://imgur.com/aRdxPk0
A 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)) [1]: https://imgur.com/aRdxPk0
A 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,…
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…
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.
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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)) [1]: https://imgur.com/aRdxPk0
The first just makes my titlebar white, not transparent. The second doesn't seem to do anything. I'm using the updated binary from emacsformacosx.com.
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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?
For those more familiar with emacs; what happened with the idea of moving to guile scheme? Is it done? Abandoned?
It really just needs someone to make it work more reliably and then demonstrate that it is a desirable thing not just in theory but in practise. Nothing short of doing the work would be sufficient to convince the most active Emacs developers.
The person who had been doing most of the work on Guile Emacs isn't currently making progress on this end, so other interested people are welcome to participate in the effort.
(I'm a Guiler and Emacs user and strongly support the idea of letting Emacs sit on top of the Elisp implementation in Guile.)