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: 4, Funny) by Rich on Sunday September 18 2016, @02:46PM
Nice! But how well can it run vi?
(Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Sunday September 18 2016, @02:50PM
Well enough. [gnu.org]
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @02:54PM
Damn. So you're telling me it finally has a decent text editor?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 18 2016, @04:21PM
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday September 18 2016, @07:02PM
I dunno, they also emulated nano or joe?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @09:19PM
So they have emulated at least two decent text editors. I've never used Joe.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday September 19 2016, @02:04AM
Nice! But how well can it run vi?
More to the point, will it run a VM for running Linux?
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(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Sunday September 18 2016, @02:54PM
I'm an occasional emac'sr (mostly vi for sys stuff).
It supports nice language fontification, which is useful for random code from random academics, and *especially* the broken python dialect....
But what's the cokebottle? I get ctrl-alt-meta.....
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Sunday September 18 2016, @03:06PM
oh BTW, another neat feature i've not seen many other places is the "gdb tracer" - you jump into gdb or gcc compile and it'll take you through the errors for a close run/edit/compile/rerun loop.
(Score: 3, Funny) by isj on Sunday September 18 2016, @03:51PM
But what's the cokebottle? I get ctrl-alt-meta.....
It's a reference to the "space cadet keyboard" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space-cadet.jpg) which a generous number of modifier keys. Legend has that when a newbie asked "How do I ..:" you'd answer "Just press shift-control-meta-cokebottle" and they would be hunting for the cokebottle key for 10 minutes.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @04:26PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @04:36PM
But can it implement a 1000-node Hadoop cluster?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday September 18 2016, @05:39PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Sunday September 18 2016, @06:01PM
USB OTG FTW.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @09:21PM
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday September 19 2016, @12:58PM
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday September 19 2016, @01:38PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday September 19 2016, @04:45PM
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday September 19 2016, @02:19PM
Why do you want to type Esc in emacs anyway, ya vi-head?
Yes technically 3x Esc will do some sort of "last-ditch abort" thing, but I've never actually used that feature in the last 9 months of using it daily at work...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Sunday September 18 2016, @07:11PM
Can Emacs still boot from a Live CD? Or does it require a DVD now?
(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.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday September 18 2016, @09:40PM
My favorite feature is that they added a workaround to Bash deleting /dev/null when you run it as root and set it to your HISTFILE.
Fuck Bash.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by snufu on Sunday September 18 2016, @10:03PM
I was introduced to emacs as the required editor for computer science course in the year 2000. I disdainfully laughed "This dinosaur is from the early eighties! It does not use 'standard' keys for cut and paste. It doesn't even use a mouse! Nobody is going to be using this in the future." I smugly dismissed it to its imminent extinction.
Fifteen years later, countless abusive relationships with the shiny baubles of proprietary editors led only to despair and aimless wandering. One by one these editors failed like false prophets, their alluring promise of cutting edge features a venal clutch at vendor lock-in.
All this time, the 'Ancient One' quietly persisted and grew more powerful like a burgeoning nation. Its modes and community prospered, extending to the farthest reaches of open sourcedom. Eyes finally wide open, I had seen the lisp. I repented my folly and humbly beseeched the Great Emacs to accept me into the fold. I have known its stout embrace for one full year.
By next year I hope to learn how to save a file.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday September 19 2016, @04:11AM
How do you type esc on a mobile phone/tablet?
You either use a bluetooth keyboard, or you get a software keyboard that isn't complete shit, that's how.
For Android, Hacker's Keyboard [google.com] has ctrl, esc, alt, and arrows all available and they work just fine. Or, my preference: Multiling O Keyboard [google.com]. That one looks like a standard mobile keyboard by default, but the layout is completely adjustable, so you can put any keys you want on there, in any sort of layout you prefer.