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Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by unsignedint » Thu, May 31, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC

unsignedint wrote: post #76

mrybczyn wrote: post #10

There isn't a windows compile available yet 8( -- yes, i don't have a choice at work.

Perhaps try RC binary until the release is ready? https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/

Adding as of 31st, the above has a real 26.1 candidate to be promoted to main site in a few days.[0]

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00...

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by colin_fraizer » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 11:42 AM UTC

jordigh wrote: post #69

gkya wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is the repo: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac Skimming the readme, I see that it's almost entirely mac specific and mostly UX. I can't say they are completely useless but nothing really vital, except the features inherited from Carbon, which seem useful (I really like the concept of AppleScript, i.e. all programs responding to a single programming interface; I guess DBus is supposed to do sth. similar on…

If anyone else is confused, "sth" is an abbreviation for "something" that was popularised in some countries by dictionaries for non-native English speakers. It's common in continental Europe and the Middle East but obscure in English-speaking countries; "smth", and "sthg" are other common abbreviations that also came from bilingual dictionaries.

I thought it was a "Star Wars" thing.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by dgellow » Sat, Jun 02, 2018, 11:16 AM UTC

lambda wrote: post #3

> Flymake has been completely redesigned Hmm, I just switched to flycheck. Is it worth checking out this new flymake?

I expect that it will take some time for people to create backends for the new flymake. In my opinion it's too early to switch back.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by wyuenho » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

lambda wrote: post #3

> Flymake has been completely redesigned Hmm, I just switched to flycheck. Is it worth checking out this new flymake?

No. Flycheck is the 7th most downloaded emacs package and the 3rd most popular package that's not a library. It's directly behind helm and magit. You can't just replace something like this with a thin stroke. The only reason flymake was rewritten was because the emacs devs couldn't get flycheck into emacs core, which IMHO is for the best. emacs releases is just too slow.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by dsevil » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 12:02 AM UTC

dkns wrote: post #81

rdtsc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering that too. However it ended up having the best highlighting and indenting packages for the languages I was using. It was available on most platforms and most of all worked in an SSH session. I wouldn't try to learn everything at once would just learn: 1) How to quit 2) How to save a file 3) Basic navigation: up, down, left, right, end of line, beginning of line 4) How to cut a line, and how to paste a…

I tried giving Emacs a shot again recently because I now use windows at work and it's easier to get Emacs working on windows with all the features rather than trying to get vim/neovim with myriad of different outside plugins. But I won't be switching simply because indentation in html/css/js files is off and apparently Emacs is bad at handling stuff like jsx and web stuff in general. Shame.

Install the web-mode package. It handles a lot of modern web stuff pretty well.