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Ooooh, excitement excitement!

Published June 05, 2007
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I don't know what Stallman's been doing with his time lately (I'll bet it ain't taking a shower), but after an interminable 6-year delay GNU Emacs version 22.1 is released!

It's got loads of new features, like a TOOLBAR and the ability to drag and drop text!

John pauses to let you catch your breath



Okay, enough breathlessness. Best I can tell, Emacs is one of the following. . .

1. Not really a product unto itself so much as an experiment to see how many platforms something can run on, ala TANSTAAFL's JetLag game.

2. A test-suite for new C compilers.

3. A cute "look what I did" project that's written knowing that its user-base is now into single digits, kinda like those folks who write new games for the Atari 2600.



And I make these jokes without a moment's worry about offending Emacs zealots, mainly because there's no way this page will display under Lynx.
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Ravuya
Actually John, emacs contains a graphical web browser.
June 05, 2007 06:19 PM
MauMan
You're just jealous because your editor does not have 800 command-line options including prefixes of -, +, and the dreaded, less cryptic as the - namespace was so screwed up with abbreviations, the -- option.
June 06, 2007 07:40 AM
noaktree
vi > emacs

Oh and

lynx -source http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=254106

[razz]
June 06, 2007 07:59 AM
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