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Emacs 24.4 RC 1

by Xyzodiac on 10/17/14, 8:13 PM with 68 comments

  • by viksit on 10/17/14, 8:45 PM

    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-...

  • by webkike on 10/17/14, 8:44 PM

    This release has so many incredible new features. Great job Emacs team!

  • by truncate on 10/18/14, 4:29 AM

    I recently discovered that elisp is dynamically scoped as opposed to lexically scoped. Out of curiosity (as I've never programmed in a dynamically scoped language) hows the experience of working in such language?

  • by iamthebest on 10/18/14, 12:26 AM

    Very nice! I notice that some bugs have been fixed since I last tried the latest development version(~4 months ago).

    I really like the enhancement to C-x TAB to use the arrow keys to adjust the indentation on the selected region.

  • by timjstewart on 10/17/14, 11:34 PM

    I'm hoping that the Mac OS X build (http://emacsformacosx.com) will soon link with libxml2 so I can use the eww browser. :)

  • by Crito on 10/17/14, 9:17 PM

    > "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"?

  • by benaiah on 10/17/14, 8:21 PM

    The current plan is to release on Monday.

  • by Yadi on 10/18/14, 6:48 AM

    Cool updates! is it bad that I still try my best to avoid emacs ? One of my professors loved it, and it just ruined my ideal text editing environment.