Emacs 24.4 RC 1

As someone who uses emacs purely for clojure/lisp and vim for everything else, the biggest feature for me is the fact that this will be the first version of emacs to support menus in terminal mode. So for all the commands you don't remember, a menu is now a click or F10 away. To quote,

"Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on sensitive portions of the mode line or header line, will drop down the menu defined at that position."

More at: http://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-24-...

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by inzax » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 8:52 PM UTC

As shown on https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hacker-News/1558365107716690

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by rezistik » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 9:01 PM UTC

viksit wrote: post #4

As someone who uses emacs purely for clojure/lisp and vim for everything else, the biggest feature for me is the fact that this will be the first version of emacs to support menus in terminal mode . So for all the commands you don't remember, a menu is now a click or F10 away. To quote, "Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on sensitive portio…

As a dev who's always used Sublime/Atom and sometimes Vim, what's the benefit of Emacs for Lisp?

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by kstrauser » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

viksit wrote: post #4

As someone who uses emacs purely for clojure/lisp and vim for everything else, the biggest feature for me is the fact that this will be the first version of emacs to support menus in terminal mode . So for all the commands you don't remember, a menu is now a click or F10 away. To quote, "Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on sensitive portio…

Emacs has had console menus for years. The difference is that they're now clickable, not keyboard-only.

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by wglb » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 9:05 PM UTC

rezistik wrote: post #6

viksit wrote: post #4

As someone who uses emacs purely for clojure/lisp and vim for everything else, the biggest feature for me is the fact that this will be the first version of emacs to support menus in terminal mode . So for all the commands you don't remember, a menu is now a click or F10 away. To quote, "Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on sensitive portio…

As a dev who's always used Sublime/Atom and sometimes Vim, what's the benefit of Emacs for Lisp?

Slime

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by viksit » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 9:16 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #7

viksit wrote: post #4

As someone who uses emacs purely for clojure/lisp and vim for everything else, the biggest feature for me is the fact that this will be the first version of emacs to support menus in terminal mode . So for all the commands you don't remember, a menu is now a click or F10 away. To quote, "Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. If the terminal supports a mouse, clicking on the menu bar, or on sensitive portio…

Emacs has had console menus for years. The difference is that they're now clickable, not keyboard-only.

Right - but the fact that they behave more like a window manager menu than ever before - as in, they drop down et al.

Re: Emacs 24.4 RC 1

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Post by Crito » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 9:17 PM UTC

> "As always, if you encounter problems building or using Emacs, please send a report to address@hidden with full details"

What's up with "address@hidden"?