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What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by jonpalmisc »

JHonaker wrote: post #89
rcconf wrote: post #78

I miss Emacs, but I moved to Visual Studio Code. I used Emacs for over 8 years so releases like this use to make me so happy. On the bright side, I still use Emacs bindings in Visual Studio Code. Maybe I should spin up Emacs again and give it another shot on my new M1 (maybe it can do the auto complete stuff faster now.)

The worst part about Emacs is the bindings. :D The reason I'll never leave Emacs is that if I want to change something, I can. It doesn't really matter what it is. This might be technically true in something like VS Code (although Atom was much easier in this regard), but it takes a lot more effort and scaffolding to do something like write a single function and bind it to a keymap in VS Code.

One of the best parts is the bindings! They are present in most shells/terminals, GNU readline-based programs, and even native macOS text field. If you're in a terminal or using a terminal-based program, there's a good chance pressing any of the core Emacs keybindings does what you expect it to.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by gnuvince »

kidsil wrote: post #125

Only thing I'm missing from Emacs is the ability to completely freeze all packages and configs. As soon as I feel like everything is stable and great, it decides to update 180 packages while I'm trying to edit a file and destroys something in my setup. If anyone knows a way to prevent all updates and "freeze" a version that would be excellent.

I haven't used it myself, so I cannot speak for it, but straight.el [1] has functionality to freeze the version of packages.

[1] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by viksit »

Given all the emacs ninjas here - what’s the best way to do JSX/TSX formatting while playing nice with js2-mode, tide and web-mode? I’ve been stuck for months on finding a good config and almost wanted to move to VS Code to try it out. Then, while using it I just couldn’t do without emacs buffers and panels flexibility — so moved back :))

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by dotancohen »

karencarits wrote: post #107
jonpalmisc wrote: post #93

I almost wish I never tried Emacs. Ignorance is bliss, and Emacs ruined all other text editors for me. There are absolutely areas that others do better, but the self-documenting “living program” nature is too much to give up; everything you ever need to know or do is a few keystrokes away.

How did you approach Emacs to make it such a valuable tool? I have tried to get started with Emacs a few times but the initial resistance has been too large

I speak with a heavy VIM accent, so Emacs never clicked for me until I tried SpaceMacs. I mostly use Emacs only for org-mode, though.

The truth is, I think that I've outgrown SpaceMacs and ready to try vanilla Emacs with Evil sometime. But SpaceMacs was definitely the gateway to getting me into org-mode, and that really is revolution in being able to organize my life.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by spudlyo »

A couple things about the content of this post, that people aren't talking about. Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen is a solid book on Emacs and a good companion to the official manual. Mickey usually has an update to Mastering Emacs not long after a new version is released, which is great. I'm thankful for his many contributions to the Emacs community, and I really enjoyed reading his thoughts on the new features and additions to Emacs 28.

Secondly, the breadth of the changes in Emacs 28.1 is staggering, especially considering that Emacs 27.1 was released some 19 months ago. I think it's safe to say that despite all the hand-wringing about the antiquated email-centric way that Emacs is developed, an impressive amount of work is getting done. Emacs development is alive and well.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by diffeomorphism »

charcircuit wrote: post #46
ilovecaching wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used Jetbrains IDEA and Clion extensively to understand the other side. An IDEs heavy introspection isn’t necessary, and perhaps actively harmful towards writing and reading code. It’s rigid policy over tools like git is certainly actively harmful. If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code. They are tools that allow you to take shortcuts were you shouldn’t, and ro…

>If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code There is nothing wrong with this. We shouldn't let old text editors hold back the productivity of programmers.

There is lots wrong with this and with this mind set. This is not about "productivity" at all but about being auditable and working in a team.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by seanw444 »

devin wrote: post #39
criddell wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be surprised that many of us use Vim or Emacs and also VSCode or Sublime or Visual Studio or IntelliJ or XCode or ... Every tool has strengths and weaknesses. Plus, some of us enjoy learning new tools and find it fun to switch things up occasionally.

Cheers to this. My primary is emacs, but I consider myself a pretty solid vim user, and I’ve been picking up VSCode for typescript stuff.

Even the TypeScript LSP is extremely featureful in Emacs. I thought about using VS Code for that stuff, but decided to see how the experience was in Emacs first, and now I'm no longer considering VS Code.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

pfortuny wrote: post #25
rayiner wrote: post #17

I was an Emacs user back in my software writing days, but I thought I had left it behind when I became a lawyer. Over the past month or two however I’ve moved more and more of my workflow over to Emacs. I started with using Org Mode and PDF tools for note taking and reviewing PDFs and task management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492373 . More recently I switched my email over to mu4e: https://www.emacswiki…

For mu4e and Exchange, I use: -offlineimap both linux and macos. and in my home laptop, davmail because it allows me to use 2FA, which has been implemented at my Uni for external use.

Davmail is great.

I've found mbsync/isync more performant than offlineimap.

Re: What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

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Post by gjvc »

AlexCoventry wrote: post #71
gjvc wrote: post #13

The native compilation part is the highlight. Could someone who knows about these things explain the difficulty Debian has in getting emacs 28 in -unstable ? (currently on 27 according to https://packages.debian.org/unstable/emacs )

FWIW, emacs is extremely easy to build from source.

it is, and i do, but i got bored of doing that a few years ago, and prefer to use 100% packaged stuff.
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