Extra, Extra! Preview of Emacs 22 on FC4 available this year [LWN.net]

Extra, Extra! Preview of Emacs 22 on FC4 available this year

Posted Jan 5, 2006 6:40 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Obviously Incorrect 2006 Predictions

Just to add some weight to our famously Grumpy Editor's prediction about Emacs 22 being released in the coming year, here are some RPM packages of Emacs 22 from CVS compiled with GTK support that I have been happily using on FC4 for the last three weeks. I built them starting with the Red Hat FC4 spec file, and there is no reason to stop them being updated with newer CVS versions as time goes by.

Happy New Year, you lovely bunch of Grumps!

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Extra, Extra! Preview of Emacs 22 on FC4 available this year

Posted Jan 5, 2006 10:01 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

And for users of Debian unstable, there's an emacs-snapshot package.

From occasional reading of the mailing-list, it seems they are on the verge of entering a testing phase.

Extra, Extra! Preview of Emacs 22 on FC4 available this year

Posted Jan 5, 2006 14:20 UTC (Thu) by mmarkov (guest, #4978) [Link]

Any chance to have Emacs that is fully Unicode-based? I mean, no MULE and so on.

If so, I will convert to Emacs. XEmacs has been my choice for several years, but its development is slowing down... at least my impression is that. I was hoping that somehow Emacs would merge with XEmacs for the benefit of all, but it did not happen.

Extra, Extra! Preview of Emacs 22 on FC4 available this year

Posted Jan 5, 2006 15:04 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

I'm not sure of all the details. I know there is a "unicode-2" branch which will be merged just after the 22 release. I don't think there's been a decision yet on whether to make the 23 release cycle a short one or not.

But I also know that I can use emacs in Chinese without having to modify anything (viewing and inputting Chinese characters).