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Precompiled binaries for Emacs 24.1 are already available for OS X at http://emacsformacosx.com/ .
You caught that quick! It only finished compiling a few minutes ago... (I generally kick off the release builds manually)
EDIT: Looks like emacsforosx does not compile Emacs with support for above command. Will you consider it? I totally understand distributing plain vanilla version though!
Precompiled binaries for Emacs 24.1 are already available for OS X at http://emacsformacosx.com/ .
You caught that quick! It only finished compiling a few minutes ago... (I generally kick off the release builds manually)
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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 ...
Indeed, will be nice when something blocking in one window doesn't lock up the whole emacs process.
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It's opt-in, otherwise most packages would break. To enable it per-file use a file-local variable: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
How ironic. Wouldn't it make much sense to enable it per lexical scope? Or as Perl did it (18 years ago) with a new keyword, so that you can use both dynamic and lexical variables in the same file? Best of both worlds.
So what is your favorite new feature?
bi-di support is also really nice, I've been copypasting into other programs until now.
Also always nice to get a new org-mode version (though I'm never quite sure whether using org makes me more productive, or whether playing with new org features makes me procrastinate more).
Favourite feature that makes you go O_o : "`nato-region' converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet."
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Thank you so much for ESK! It's really helped me get started in emacs. Also, could you think about adding undo-tree as a default for ESK? I really feel like that would be a worthy addition.
Glad you like it. I think rather than further development on the Starter Kit, effort would be better spent towards coming up with a good overview of the ecosystem, documenting available packages and how they work together.
For those reasonably comfortable with Emacs, I think you should build it from source, and get into the habit of fixing tiny documentation problems as soon as you come across them. Mind you, I have submitted a couple such patches to the ido built-in help and they have languished un-noticed for 2 months.
P.S. Another thank-you here for the starter kit -- I no longer use it, but I did for a year or so and it did teach me several features I wouldn't have known about otherwise.
There's a slightly annoying regression (to Emacs 22, behavior, I believe) in the Mac version. Some Unicode characters (like —, “, and ”) cause the line to expand in height slightly. Does anyone know of a fix?
I use:
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Menlo" :height 120)
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'unicode "Menlo")This means that I can finally try out Emacs Prelude [1]. Fantastic! I'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. http://batsov.com/prelude/
Same for the Literate Emacs24 Starter Kit (shameless plug by the maintainer). https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit
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You caught that quick! It only finished compiling a few minutes ago... (I generally kick off the release builds manually)
Last I checked your builds didn't had `ns-toggle-fullscreen`. Is that still the case? EDIT: Looks like emacsforosx does not compile Emacs with support for above command. Will you consider it? I totally understand distributing plain vanilla version though!
brew update
# Lion only (or if you don't have xcode?)
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install apple-gcc42
# put these in your .bashrc
export HOMEBREW_USE_GCC=1
export HOMEBREW_VERBOSE=1
# /Lion only
brew install emacs --cocoa
brew linkappsPrecompiled binaries for Emacs 24.1 are already available for OS X at http://emacsformacosx.com/ .
Maybe it's something in my init files, but I have not yet had time to figure out what's causing the problems.