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Re: Emacs 26.3

#6
From TFA:

> This release is mainly a maintenance release, which contains a new GPG key for GNU ELPA packages.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#7
post #3

NEWS: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.26.3

So ... only two relevant changes this time?

for many of us this fixes a show stopper bug while downloading packages from MELPA/ELPA. I was just trying to setup on a new Fedora box (emacs-26.2) and my setup kept failing on "Failed to download archive...".

Re: Emacs 26.3

#8
post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows GUI is a bit slow. I found that I disabled all the bars anyway though, so using the CLI version of GNU Emacs is acceptable even on Windows.

YMMV

Re: Emacs 26.3

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post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs).

I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#10
post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs). I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

Gnus is unusably slow for me. I wonder if that is related to Windows as well...
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