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Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#12

Post by fafner »

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

Rectangular mark mode is really awesome. It makes working with rectangles a lot easier. It is now so well integrated into my workflow that I'm really annoyed when I have to use an older Emacs version.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#15

Post by davexunit »

fafner wrote: post #12
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

Rectangular mark mode is really awesome. It makes working with rectangles a lot easier. It is now so well integrated into my workflow that I'm really annoyed when I have to use an older Emacs version.

I'm very excited to try it out. I knew about the web browser, but I didn't know about this until I read the release notes.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#16

Post by davidw »

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 has sockets, so... pretty much anything you can do with those, you can do with Emacs.

* Email (gnus)

* NNTP (gnus)

* IRC

Come to mind offhand.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by viksit »

baby wrote: post #8

> A built-in web browser (M-x eww) What ! Anyone has screenshots of that? Is there a windows release somewhere?

Is it me or is that browser (after looking at the screenshot) really "eww"?

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#18

Post by viksit »

craigching wrote: post #13

If you're looking for GNU emacs on Mac OS X, this is the place I use [1]. Note that it's not there just yet, so be a bit patient. They've been doing RC builds, you can seem them here [2]. [1] -- http://emacsformacosx.com/ [2] -- http://emacsformacosx.com/builds

Weirdly, 24.4rc1 from the builds section is really wonky on my OS X Mavericks install. On scroll, the buffers go "above" the window and the top bar breaks up into tiny pieces and scrolls with the content. Ugh.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#19

Post by stinkytaco »

davidw wrote: post #16
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs has a web browser?

It has sockets, so... pretty much anything you can do with those, you can do with Emacs. * Email (gnus) * NNTP (gnus) * IRC Come to mind offhand.

Slightly off-topic, but is there still much NNTP use out there other than piracy related? I was a heavy NNTP user once upon a time, but all the public groups I once used seem to be overrun by spam and private ones seem to have gone in favor of email. I would expect there's a quite a few private servers out there to warrant continual updating in a program like emacs.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#20

Post by jpfr »

Besides emacs 24.4 being an awesome release by itself, it also means esr can finally transition the development to git.

That will render the project a lot more accessible for new developers and ad-hoc bugfixing.

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