GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#2So does that mean it's officially stable? This is great news.
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#3Woah, emacs lisp now has lexical scoping
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#4New features:
- New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for downloading and installing extensions. A default package archive is hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers.
- Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp.
- Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes).
- Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages.
- Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3, ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2.
This looks great. :)
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#5So does that mean it's officially stable? This is great news.
Yep.
The current stable release is 24.1.[0]
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#6Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#7Woah, emacs lisp now has lexical scoping
It's opt-in, otherwise most packages would break.
To enable it per-file use a file-local variable:
;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#8Woah, emacs lisp now has lexical scoping
Yes, this is pretty radical. More info from the manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Usi...
from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Lex... -
Such code is also much more friendly to concurrency, which we want to add to Emacs in the near future.
Exciting times ahead ...
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#9Great news!
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#10Does anyone know if/when it will be available via Ubuntu Software Center or some PPA? I am on Ubuntu 12.04.