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Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by shepard »

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.

Interesting - could you please provide some examples of how are you using rectangular mark mode? I have never used it before, so I'm clearly missing something cool here...

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by cenazoic »

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

This is the best discussion of the different versions of emacs available for MacOS I've seen (including emacsformacos):

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/271/what-is-the-dif...

Short version: Lunaryorn: "I used to get them from Emacs for Mac OS X, but now I use Homebrew, because it supports more libraries, notably GNU TLS for encrypted network connections.

All in all: Use brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick :)"

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by RexRollman »

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

Is there a screenshot somewhere?

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by nine_k »

viksit wrote: post #17
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"?

Okay for technical docs, an occasional Wikipedia article, etc. It's not a replacement for Firefox or Chrome.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by craigching »

cenazoic wrote: post #22
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

This is the best discussion of the different versions of emacs available for MacOS I've seen (including emacsformacos): http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/271/what-is-the-dif... Short version: Lunaryorn: "I used to get them from Emacs for Mac OS X, but now I use Homebrew, because it supports more libraries, notably GNU TLS for encrypted network connections. All in all: Use brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-he…

Thanks for that! I went through this on my own quite some time ago and came to my own conclusion that GNU emacs is the one for me, especially since I do program on mac os x, Linux and Windows.

EDIT: Well, now that I've read that in full, I'm thinking of giving the author's conclusion a try:

> All in all: Use brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick :)

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by stronglikedan »

RexRollman wrote: post #23
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

Is there a screenshot somewhere?

An older link, but: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

#28

Post by edavis »

stinkytaco wrote: post #19
davidw wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use NNTP to follow a handful of development mailing lists via gmane.org.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by dietrichepp »

shepard wrote: post #21
fafner wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting - could you please provide some examples of how are you using rectangular mark mode? I have never used it before, so I'm clearly missing something cool here...

Any time you're working with tabular data, or data that is aligned horizontally, it's helpful. For example, I might need to delete a prefix from a list of declarations. I often use macros for the same kinds of tasks, with each macro editing a line and putting the cursor on the next line afterwards.

Re: Emacs 24.4 released

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Post by callahad »

stinkytaco wrote: post #19
davidw wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I prefer to consume mailing lists via Gmane's NNTP gateway: http://gmane.org/

It's a surprisingly nice experience. You can really easily pull archives, nntp clients tend to handle threading well, etc.

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