Emacs 24.4 released

Post by lee » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 12:07 PM UTC

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I would say that learning your IDE or editor well is a worthwhile investment, whether that is emacs, vim, or a more rich IDE like Eclipse. Vim or Emacs are really powerful tools that will serve you well over your entire career, so getting adept at them will pay dividends. It's similar to learning how to touch-type, or typing with a faster WPM, in that it's not a pre-requisite to becoming a good and productive develop…

Happy to see others mentioning eclipse. I'm learning emacs now and it impresses me a lot but I also have happy memories from both Eclipse and NetBeans. The way you can refactor whole projects at once etc is amazing. (This is partly related to Java being static and uncool as well. : )

Post by dgempesaw » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 12:56 PM UTC

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Building on OSX Mavericks (assuming XCode and XQuartz already around) 1) Download from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ emacs-24.4.tar.gz emacs-24.4.tar.gz.sig 2) Confirm: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys A0B0F199 gpg --verify emacs-24.4.tar.gz.sig 3) Build (from INSTALL): cd emacs-24.4 ./configure --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no make src/emacs -Q make install 4) run: /usr/local/bin/emacs

Alternatively, until homebrew is updated you can run brew edit emacs and change the url and sha256 to match 24.4, then run brew install emacs with whatever options you would like (brew options emacs for a list). I haven't tested this yet, but it should work, and I will report back after I've tried. edit: So this did work, I used the .tar.xz with sha256 47e391170db4ca0a3c724530c7050655f6d573a711956b4cd84693c194a9d4fd.…

Post by sigzero » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 1:15 PM UTC

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Alternatively, until homebrew is updated you can run brew edit emacs and change the url and sha256 to match 24.4, then run brew install emacs with whatever options you would like (brew options emacs for a list). I haven't tested this yet, but it should work, and I will report back after I've tried. edit: So this did work, I used the .tar.xz with sha256 47e391170db4ca0a3c724530c7050655f6d573a711956b4cd84693c194a9d4fd.…

Update a few hours later: without having tried it myself, it looks like the formula for emacs has been updated to 24.4: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/a0b095b/Library...

Post by namarkiv » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

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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 don't understand what is there that I can't do with rectangles in Emacs 24.3 (or even way before). I can already kill (C-x r k), yank (C-x r y), replace (C-x r t) text in rectangles, insert text after the rectangle (C-x r z) or at the beginning of all the rectangle lines (C-x r a) or their ends (C-x r e). What else is there?

Post by klibertp » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

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The rectangle highlighting issue has been fixed[0]. http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...

Thanks. So that's what other already said, there is nothing more. This was a really minor issue, I don't see why it would make anyone that much happy, but it's sure nice to have it fixed.