GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait 500
lisah writes "After keeping users waiting for nearly six years, Emacs 22 has been released and includes a bunch of updates and some new modes as well. In addition to support for GTK+ and a graphical interface to the GNU Debugger, 'this release includes build support for Linux on AMD64, S/390, and Tensilica Xtensa machines, FreeBSD/Alpha, Cygwin, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9 with Carbon support. The Leim package is now part of GNU Emacs, so users will be able to get input support for Chinese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and other languages without downloading a separate package. New translations of the Emacs tutorial are also available in Brasilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Italian, French, and Russian.'"
Nobody Cares. (Score:5, Funny)
Coughs up? (Score:2, Funny)
Feature Rich (Score:5, Funny)
But does it run on linux? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Feature Rich (Score:5, Funny)
Once that's implemented, the whole vi vs. Emacs thing is over.
Hot asian girlfriend FTW!
Re:NEW - DNF mode! (Score:4, Funny)
Y'know... (Score:5, Funny)
So EMACS really is like an operating system... (Score:4, Funny)
But who shed more features before going gold?
Obligatory flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
Or is it just now Eight Hundred Megs And Constantly Swapping?
I love the headline (Score:3, Funny)
On the upside, matching our carpet to the color of the catfood has turned out to be a brilliant strategy so far.
Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars (Score:5, Funny)
Number One (Score:4, Funny)
Ok, but does it include... (Score:3, Funny)
For those of you...., (Score:4, Funny)
ln -s vi emacs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Feature Rich (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Feature Rich (Score:1, Funny)
My friend, there's only one thing with a bad ass mullet and attitude to match that is capable of killing a truck driver. What you need is called "Chuck Norris mode".
Re:I love the headline (Score:3, Funny)
So I take it whoever modded me as flamebait thinks this isn't the best thing that has been coughed up since the hairball incident? Will the persecution of emacs never end?????
Terrific OS ... an editor in this release? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Needing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't forget (Score:1, Funny)
brokeback editor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Feature Rich (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
OMG, what next?? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know who's a fault... (Score:4, Funny)
But I _still_ can't get GRUB to load it...I _still_ have to use this useless 'linux thingy' to invoke it!
Won't someone please help me with replacing my Symbolics machine?
Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars (Score:5, Funny)
He didn't say "hot" (Score:5, Funny)
Vi asian girlfriend just stands there looking pretty, but if you thought you were going to get anything done, you're sadly mistaken. It'll take you a week to figure out how to get that dress off...
Vim asian girlfriend will do anything you ask, as soon as you learn the language. Fortunately, most of us know words like "Bukakke" already, and it doesn't take much.
Re:Feature Rich (Score:4, Funny)
But she would be open source, so you could change those features.
Re:Cue the vi versus emacs flamewars (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't forget (Score:5, Funny)
Yep... And Debian has just released another stable, just a bit more than a year after the last one... And the new emacs is released... What is up with all those things?!?!?! Will we have perl6 and hurd released now?!?!?!
The world is a crazy place.
Re:Obligatory flamebait (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Nobody Cares. - my experience (Score:4, Funny)
Re:brokeback editor (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I'm wary of any editor that takes the commands through the colon. Add on a Brokeback reference, and my homometer [crooksandliars.com] is going haywire!
I kid, I kid... I personally use both Emacs and Vim
.Duke Nukem Forever? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No kidding - someone help me learn emacs (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Y'know... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nobody Cares. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We were always using VI (Score:5, Funny)
Emacs 22 took six years, just to find anything Emacs 21 didn't already offer...
Sure. Now maybe that they're done with that, they'll finish Hurd.
Re:Feature Rich (Score:5, Funny)
So we could be talking about a chunky girl with mosquito bites, and a mouth full of crooked teeth, a strict no-sex-before-marriage policy, and a really foul attitude... Like the kind that would be all screaming at you in Cantonese every night, unless you cater to her every whim, as uttered in broken, thickly-accented English - and then if you give her the boot she sneaks back into your place and steals or destroys all your stuff...
See? SEE? Now do you understand why it's important to clearly and thoroughly define the requirements of your software before coding begins?
I prefer my personal impelmentation of "5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0". It's a great improvement over "5'3 blonde German Girl friend v9.5" who was actually an upgrade on "5'5 filipina stripper Girl Friend v6.9". I still fondly remember the one I started with "5'1 half filipina half chinese Girl friend v.5.0" however that implementation was not as asthetically pleaseing as the other three and came with "waiting for marriage" DRM but was more stable then two of the other three.
The current one ("5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0") is both stable, DRM free, include the "hot" feature and "sane" feature which some of the previous versions lacked. I was thinking of trying make the "threesome" feature but I might be pushing my luck
The Website, RMSes Passport Portrait, Emacs ... (Score:3, Funny)
Emacs may once have been an extremely powerfull tool and the best possible thing for a remote tty command line mainframe uplink some 25 years ago. I nearly started learning it back in 1996. But all this nowadays and with a stance that is way far out even by slashdot standards
How about calling it quits? Donald Knuth stopped TeX when it was finished. And it actually still is a usable tool today. Then again, Donald Knuth is a normal, respected developer, not some strange fringe-dimension entity
Eight Megs Is Nothing Nowadays (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory flamebait (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, Emacs ..... (Score:2, Funny)
I love Emacs, it makes my code look clean !
Emacs, because life isn't complicated enough
Emacs is the only user application that I know of where I have to consult the documentation for the ability to shut it down.
You're so lucky (Score:5, Funny)
My programming instructor said he had an evil boss at a government job who made him use Emacs.
You're lucky. *My* evil boss makes me edit Java and XML with Excel.
You shouldn't boot emacs right away (Score:4, Funny)
Re:He didn't say "hot" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We were always using VI (Score:5, Funny)
If you have Emacs, you don't need Hurd.
Re:25 things to know before giving up... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't forget (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nobody Cares. (Score:1, Funny)
May you stay at twenty two,
May you always do for coders
what Eclipse will never do.
May you build our trees in c-mode
Until the terminal bell has rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy,
May your keys always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
With control, escape and shift.
May your macros' lisp be joyful,
May contributors be far flung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
But vim has clippy (Score:3, Funny)
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We were always using VI (Score:1, Funny)
Been there, done that. Realized it was a big joke to get me to memorize a completely non-nonsensical, non-intuitive lisp machine as an editor. Then the creators run around extolling their intelligence over others by mastering the cryptic thing. Reminds me of the joke where people paid to see a donkey with his ass where his head should be. Each entered after paying a quarter (its an old story) and found the donkey in its stall backwards. That was it. At that point, no one wanted to tell newcomers how dumb they'd been so none of them told the people left in line that it was a sham. That's what Emacs looks like.
Other than GNU's push to get rid of manpages and put all useful information in "info" format that uses the emacs navigation set, no, not at all.
vi-mode for Emacs, the code (Score:4, Funny)
Here is vi-mode for emacs (with apologies to Erik Naggum):
(defun vi-mode ()
(interactive)
(use-global-map (make-keymap))
Whatever you do, it will just beep annoyingly at you.
Re:He didn't say "hot" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another keyboard shortcut (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nobody Cares. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We were always using VI (Score:3, Funny)