Woah, 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 ...
GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#12New 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-them…
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#13Does anyone know if/when it will be available via Ubuntu Software Center or some PPA? I am on Ubuntu 12.04.
https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs
http://emacs.naquadah.org/ (Debian)
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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#15The package system is awesome, no more hassle installing plugins and extensions!
Great job GNU, thank you!
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
#16New 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-them…
Complete list http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.24.1
C-h r m antinews RET
This provides a changelog in the opposite direction, which is entertaining: For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about
downgrading to Emacs version 23.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater
simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 24.1 features.
-----It can be found online here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ant...
Re: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
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#19I've been wanting to check it out for a while, but I haven't been brave enough to run a non-stable release of GNU Emacs.