From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1 released Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:31:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87skgeeuwt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248942734 21060 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 08:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 10:32:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWR3W-0008Fx-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:32:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWR3W-0003ZE-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:32:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWR3Q-0003W8-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWR3L-0003Kd-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51053 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWR3L-0003KS-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:46908 helo=gate.verona.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWR3L-0004zV-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id n6U8Vn5G009724; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:31:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87skgeeuwt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113386 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released. It is available on the GNU ftp site > at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/. See http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a > list of mirrors. > > The MD5 check-sums for the tarballs are: > > a620d4452769d04ad8864d662f34f8dd emacs-23.1.tar.gz > 17f7f0ba68a0432d58fa69d05a2225be emacs-23.1.tar.bz2 > > Here are some new features of Emacs 23. See etc/NEWS for a complete > list. Congratulations! So lets start working on Emacs 24. No rest for the wicked :) > > - Improved Unicode support (the internal character representation is > now based on UTF-8). > > - Font rendering with Fontconfig and Xft. > > - Support for using X displays and text terminals in one session, > and for running as a daemon. > > - Shift-selection. > > - Smarter minibuffer completion. > > - Per-buffer text scaling. > > - Directory-local variables. > > - New packages for: > * viewing PDF and postscript files (Doc view mode) > * connecting to processes via D-Bus (dbus) > * using the GNU Privacy Guard (EasyPG) > * displaying line numbers in the fringe (Linum mode) > * editing XML documents with on-the-fly validation (nXML mode) > * editing Ruby programs (Ruby mode) > * display-based word wrapping (Visual Line mode) > > Please send bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You can use the > function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this. Mac OS X users should note > that the Carbon port has been removed; see the file nextstep/README for > information about the new Cocoa port. > > Many thanks to the rest of the Emacs development team for their hard > work; and to the numerous users who contributed suggestions and bug > reports. Happy hacking. > -- Joakim Verona