Emacs 23 is very near

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/07/emacs-23-is-very-near.html

by thunk • 17 years ago

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socratees• 17 years ago

I was SO eagerly waiting for anti-aliasing on emacs. Now it should be awesome.

dimitar• 17 years ago

I for one don't really like it or need it. My emacs looks great with the bitmap font I'm using - terminus.

The new packages in the standard distribution are great thought.

mapleoin2• 17 years ago

Yeah, I'm using terminus now, too. It's awesome! I went through a great deal of pain to get emacs 23 and try out some new fonts, but then discovered terminus and now it's relatively useless :)

daleharvey• 17 years ago

I have been using emacs-snapshot even since I started using emacs regularly purely for the anti-alisaing, it really does feel so much nicer.

amichail4• 17 years ago

Emacs is overkill and has very poor default key bindings.

Windows has notepad++, which is an excellent free editor.

On the Mac I use Aquamacs Emacs, which is ok, but I would still prefer something like notepad++. (For coding I use the xcode editor.)

jrockway5• 17 years ago

How does this relate to the article?

amichail4• 17 years ago

It's time for people to move on from Emacs. Development effort would be better spent on lightweight editors that complement modern IDE editors (e.g., the Java editor in Eclipse).

lallysingh• 17 years ago

It doesn't -- it's someone forgetting the no flamebait rule.

Notepad++, really? If that isn't bait I don't know what is.

andreyf2• 17 years ago

TextMate on OSX is a lot like notepad++ (but better). Re: emacs, I think complaining about default key bindings is like complaining about the color of a tennis racket's handle - it's a sign of n00b :-P

dryicerx2• 17 years ago

D-Bus support will open a whole new box of possibilities, I can't wait. Time to start hacking away writing a Pidgin <-> Emacs interface.

M-x butterfly as well.

dave_au• 17 years ago

I've been using the dbus support with the CVS snapshot for a while now - it's nice.

So far I've only been using it to control workrave and to bring up compilation messages with the system notification handler for long running compiles. Still, I've been liking it a lot.

rincewind• 17 years ago

so what does M-x butterfly do?

andreyf2• 17 years ago

No static bound variables in elisp? :(

D-Bus sounds exciting - does anyone know if there's any chance this will allow emacs to interface with firebug?

wingo2• 17 years ago

You mean lexically bound variables perhaps? There is lexical-let from 'cl, but that's not the same thing.

OTOH Guile's elisp compiler does compile lexical bindings efficiently. It's a complementary tack to the lexbind branch of Emacs proper.

capablanca• 17 years ago

Suppose the compiler is done.. what wouild be the difficulties for using it on Emacs (apart from convincing rms)?

thunk• 17 years ago

The development snapshots have been perfectly usable for a while now, but this is news nonetheless.

It's purdy with droid sans.

kzar2• 17 years ago

Ooo I can't wait

kzar2• 17 years ago

(That sounded sarcastic in hindsight but it wasn't)

jrockway5• 17 years ago

Just compile the CVS version and use that, then? That's what many of us have been doing for years -- Emacs 23's exciting new features are mostly very old news :)

GeneralMaximus4• 17 years ago

Just do an aptitude install emacs-snapshot if you're on Ubuntu.

(Debian might have that package too, but I'm not sure.)

BearOfNH• 17 years ago

In Emacs 22 about the largest file I can edit is 27MB. From the lack of hype I take it Emacs 23 won't improve on that. This is on 32-bit WinXP, sadly.

It's a heck of a lot easier to pore thru a huge trace file with an intelligent editor. Instead, I get to use Notepad.

mulander2• 17 years ago

I have no problems with large files - using Emacs 23 from http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html.

The file on the screenshot is ~156MB took several seconds to load but after that all operations on it are instant.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9108/emacslargefile.png

The blacked out parts are work related - sorry.

itgoon• 17 years ago

Well, that's just sad, since Notepad loads the whole file into memory.

Have you tried Notepad++ or UltraEdit? Colorization, smart handling of large files, etc.?

Estragon• 17 years ago

I tried switching to emacs 23, but the vc.el integration left much to be desired, for svn and CVS, and I switched back. (Yes, I know, why am I still using CVS, but there you go.)

discojesus3• 17 years ago

"M-x butterfly (see [[%20http://xkcd.com/378/][ http://xkcd.com/378/]])

I'm still waiting for M-x kill-it-with-fire.

jrockway5• 17 years ago

How about:

    (defun kill-it-with-fire ()
      (interactive)
      (loop for b in (buffer-list) do (kill-buffer b)))

discojesus3• 17 years ago

looks like a good first start, but how do we add the fire?

Emacs 23 is very near

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