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For those who have mastered typing ctrl-alt-meta-cokebottle commands, there's a new release of the Emacs text editor:
Version 25.1 of the Emacs text editor is now available.
For more information on Emacs, see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacsYou can retrieve the source from your nearest GNU mirror by using one of the following links:
- http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-25.1.tar.xz
- http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-25.1.tar.gzYou can get the PGP signatures at
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.1.tar.xz.sig
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.1.tar.gz.sigYou can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at:
- http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.htmlMirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at:
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/Highlights of this release include:
- Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules)
- Experimental support for Cairo drawing
- Enhanced network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like)
- New minor mode 'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you type
- Character folding support in isearch.el
- Xwidgets: a new feature for embedding native widgets inside Emacs buffers
- New and improved facilities for inserting Unicode characters
The Windows binaries have not yet been officially released but the adventuresome can jump in and take an unofficial look.
How do you type esc on a mobile phone/tablet?
[Update: It looks like Windows binaries have been released; see: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/. -martyb.]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Sunday September 18 2016, @07:35PM
What makes Emacs endure is muscle memory. Once you have it wired into your brain, you can use it for editing anything. You don't have to relearn keystrokes. The user interface doesn't change between releases. Works on any platform you can use today, and in the past. (I once booted ITS in a simulator and was able to use Emacs.) If you are a professional file editing person like a programmer, this is a HUGE WIN. I can't even put it into words. Imagine if a guitar or other fretboard instrument had its design changed every few years the way other text editors and IDEs do today. Probably a musician's muscle memory for an instrument is the closest thing to a programmer's muscle memory for an editor. Imagine if Steve Howe picked up a guitar and couldn't play it, or Mark King picked up a bass and had to start learning again. This stuff gets DEEP into your muscle memory and you get to the point you no longer consciously thing about what you're doing.
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Justin Case on Sunday September 18 2016, @07:46PM
You don't have to relearn keystrokes.
What are these keys of which you speak, and why are you stroking them? Are you some kind of pervert? I hope the authorities are keeping an eye on you.
The user interface doesn't change between releases.
Well then how can you possibly impress/humiliate your friends by demonstrating that you have the coolest new shiny?
Works on any platform you can use today, and in the past.
OK now you're over the deep end. If my friends can download it for their iDroid 96 then why the hell did I spend $BIGNUM on an iDroid 97???
Plus think of the developers!!! How can we keep them employed if they're not rewriting the same stuff for every new platform?
I bet you hate Santa Claus too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @10:00PM
I hear it really smokes on a Note 7.