Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by deng » Mon, May 28, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

Emacs 26.1 released
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Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by dman » Mon, May 28, 2018, 2:52 PM UTC

24 bit color support on terminal!!

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by lambda » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:01 PM UTC

> Flymake has been completely redesigned

Hmm, I just switched to flycheck. Is it worth checking out this new flymake?

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by avar » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:01 PM UTC

For those unfamiliar with GNU Emacs version numbers, they always start at X.1, not X.0, so this is the first major release after 25.1 released in September 2016.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by josteink » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:02 PM UTC

For the uninitiated, .1 means actual first release.

So this is the first official release of Emacs 26.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by marolafm » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

TRAMP support for gdrive! That sounds amazing

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by deng » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:09 PM UTC

A few more (personal) highlights from the release:

* New minor mode 'pixel-scroll-mode' provides smooth pixel-level scrolling.

* The networking code has been reworked so that it's more asynchronous than it was (DNS resolution and TLS negotiation do not block Emacs main thread).

* Emacs no longer prompts about editing a changed file when the file's content is unchanged. Instead of only checking the modification time, Emacs now also checks the file's actual content before prompting the user.

* A new submode of 'html-mode', 'mhtml-mode', is now the default mode for html files. This mode handles indentation, fontification, and commenting for embedded JavaScript and CSS.

* Improved CSS mode

* Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by jaimehrubiks » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

Do any of you know if tramp does still freeze if remote prompt´s ´text´ has special characters? this is a bug that used to bother me last year.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by LukeShu » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:28 PM UTC

avar wrote: post #4

For those unfamiliar with GNU Emacs version numbers, they always start at X.1, not X.0, so this is the first major release after 25.1 released in September 2016.

Lest someone misread this and think that Emacs hasn't had an update in 2 years: That says "major release". The previous release was the 25.3 minor release in September 2017.

Re: Emacs 26.1 released

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Post by mrybczyn » Mon, May 28, 2018, 3:30 PM UTC

There isn't a windows compile available yet 8( -- yes, i don't have a choice at work.