Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by tlikonen » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

Emacs 25.1 released
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Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by aban » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 6:31 PM UTC

Great news and congrats to everyone involved!

Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers.

One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by kfrz » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:16 PM UTC

aban wrote: post #2

Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

Only yesterday I discovered I could play an adventure game in emacs. Then I discovered a bunch of layers and modes that were awesome. I haven't begun to scratch the surface, but if I buy a new Nexus 6P can I just flash Emacs on it?

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by ezjones » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:20 PM UTC

aban wrote: post #2

Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

1. Isn't embedding a browser like this a security risk? 2. Can we now move M-x customize to gtk widgets?

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by wtetzner » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:25 PM UTC

ezjones wrote: post #4

aban wrote: post #2

Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

1. Isn't embedding a browser like this a security risk? 2. Can we now move M-x customize to gtk widgets?

Would it be any more of a security risk than using a stand-alone browser?

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by tlikonen » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:29 PM UTC

Character folding in searches is likely useful: simple letters like "a" also match "á", "à", "ä"; quote char " also matches “ and ” and so on.

  (setq search-default-mode #'char-fold-to-regexp)

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by nine_k » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:45 PM UTC

kfrz wrote: post #3

aban wrote: post #2

Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

Only yesterday I discovered I could play an adventure game in emacs. Then I discovered a bunch of layers and modes that were awesome. I haven't begun to scratch the surface, but if I buy a new Nexus 6P can I just flash Emacs on it?

A shortcut to dial a number from within an org mode phonebook would be perfect :)

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by kaushalmodi » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

kfrz wrote: post #3

aban wrote: post #2

Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...

Only yesterday I discovered I could play an adventure game in emacs. Then I discovered a bunch of layers and modes that were awesome. I haven't begun to scratch the surface, but if I buy a new Nexus 6P can I just flash Emacs on it?

You do not need to flash anything. It's already available on Android phones even without root. I use it on unrooted Nexus 6p.

Google "Termux emacs".

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by nine_k » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:47 PM UTC

wtetzner wrote: post #5

ezjones wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Isn't embedding a browser like this a security risk? 2. Can we now move M-x customize to gtk widgets?

Would it be any more of a security risk than using a stand-alone browser?

Standalone browsers make a lot of special efforts to isolate pages from one another. Does embedding have the same guarantees?

Re: Emacs 25.1 released

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Post by gkya » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

Emacs VC mode has a bug where all listed files in the vc-dir buffer are shown with their basenames for at least Git and CVS repositories, and for CVS it renders the mode unusable. I made a patch but I guess they're waiting my paperwork (copyright assignment) to arrive so it couldn't make it for this release. Here is the patch: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24082 for whoever uses vc-git and vc-cvs. It's in the last message there.