Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by auvi » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by peatmoss » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:04 PM UTC

Can't wait until homebrew is updated to try this out. A part of me is morbidly curious to try out the new web browser. This may be the impetus I've been needing to make the jump to GNUs for my email.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by fafner » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:16 PM UTC

peatmoss wrote: post #2

Can't wait until homebrew is updated to try this out. A part of me is morbidly curious to try out the new web browser. This may be the impetus I've been needing to make the jump to GNUs for my email.

The web browser (named eww) is of course limited by the display engine of Emacs. So don't expect too much. But for reading documentation in html format it works well for me so far and I guess that's the biggest use-case for it.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by webkike » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC

I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stopped getting better

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:19 PM UTC

fafner wrote: post #3

peatmoss wrote: post #2

Can't wait until homebrew is updated to try this out. A part of me is morbidly curious to try out the new web browser. This may be the impetus I've been needing to make the jump to GNUs for my email.

The web browser (named eww) is of course limited by the display engine of Emacs. So don't expect too much. But for reading documentation in html format it works well for me so far and I guess that's the biggest use-case for it.

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Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by sillysaurus3 » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

webkike wrote: post #4

I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stopped getting better

Emacs has a web browser?

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by nandhp » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #6

webkike wrote: post #4

I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stopped getting better

Emacs has a web browser?

> Highlights of this release include: A built-in web browser (M-x eww)

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by baby » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

> A built-in web browser (M-x eww)

What ! Anyone has screenshots of that?

Is there a windows release somewhere?

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by ephemeralgomi » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #6

webkike wrote: post #4

I've been going off like a broken record in the comment pages for these posts, since I'm such an Emacs fanatic. But I'll say it again, this release is great! Rectangular mark mode, better web browser -- Emacs hasn't stopped getting better

Emacs has a web browser?

It's had w3 for quite a while. 'eww' is new.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by fafner » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 8:22 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #5

fafner wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web browser (named eww) is of course limited by the display engine of Emacs. So don't expect too much. But for reading documentation in html format it works well for me so far and I guess that's the biggest use-case for it.

[deleted]

It can display images. It seems to even support HTML5 SVG.

The HTML rendering engine (shr) was originally written as part of the Gnus project for exactly that task: To render HTML in RSS and email. The browser (eww) just adds http support via url.el and a user front end.