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Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)Posted May 17, 2007 16:11 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396)Parent article: Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)
I too am frustrated that the work I did on Emacs in college over 5 years ago still isn't out. Emacs really needs to modernize in a lot of ways. The community has collectively learned a lot about how free software project management works best. In particular, Release early, release often. A bit of a cliche for sure, but that doesn't make it less true. Besides that, Emacs really needs to realize that their users are almost universally programmers or system administrators, and that they are likely running Emacs on computers with fast processors and 512MB of RAM or above. The choices for defaults need to be fixed. There's no reason for font-lock to be off by default. Also, Emacs should take a hard look at some of the work people have been doing to make Emacs a more reliable IDE. Just in general, think about how to optimize the software for what normal people are using it for (instead of the people who are Emacs developers who still use it to read mail)
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Emacs tuned for fast computers Posted May 19, 2007 22:07 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Emacs really needs to realize that their users are almost universally programmers or system administrators, and that they are likely running Emacs on computers with fast processors and 512MB of RAM or above. I wonder if programmers and system administrators have more powerful machines than the average computer user. The things I think of that need high power are end-user type things: web browsing, games, watching movies, etc. Emacs is highly useful today on systems that are pretty much worthless for all those things. I am personally a good counterexample: I am a computer nerd and satisfy most of my requirements with old systems. The main pressure for me to upgrade is to be able to use newer Emacs, because Emacs does in fact assume a fairly modern computer. I got a new computer so I could upgrade from Emacs 19 to 20, and now I'm planning to upgrade so I can move to 21. I won't bother with 22. If I weren't a computer nerd, I could easily trash my current systems and go the store and get faster ones to put in their place. But because of all the customization I've done, it's not that easy.
Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23) Posted May 20, 2007 14:28 UTC (Sun) by cyd (subscriber, #4153) [Link] > There's no reason for font-lock to be off by default
It is on by default in Emacs 22.
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