Re: What's really new with Emacs 22?

[fang.lungang@gmail.com]

On May 15, 11:11 am, Drew Ames <d...@HP-Desktop.none> wrote:
> Hi All,

> I'm interested in version 22, but I'm also very confused by what I'm
> reading on the emacs web page. I go to the page, and it says, "The
> next release will have __many new features__, but no one specific
> essential feature."
>
> Fine. That means that the next version is a series of
> refinements. But, what I click on "many new features" the page takes
> me to a "news" page on a CVS server. The news makes little sense to me
> as a newbie, there are "empty log messages" and "update for CVS"
> messages.
>
> The information on that page has nothing to do with "many new
> features" and everything to do with a development log. I've been
> looking for a while, but haven't found a concise list of new features
> in Emacs 22. I saw some new features mentioned in the thread above,
> "Emacs 21 or Snapshot?"
>
> Is there a better list somewhere? Is it possible to list the
> improvements?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Drew

You were taken to the cvs repository of Emacs source code. What you
saw was the version infomation of a file named NEWS. That file
contains news you are interested.
You'll want to click [view] of certain revision (or the lastest one)
of that file to find out what's really new.

Regards,

Fang lungang