What's new in Emacs 24.4?
masteringemacs.org/articles/2013/12/29/whats-...Posted Oct 14, 2014, 3:41 PM UTC
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I've been using Emacs for a maybe a year now, but just reading the changelog for 24.4 makes me realize just how incredibly huge the feature set is again.
I know nothing.
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People using it for 20 years still discover stuff.
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I count myself among them.
When I find myself needing to explain the reason I use Emacs, one of the biggest reasons is that it's a tool that very effectively rewards the investment you make into learning how to use it. There's a high probability that the investment you make now will pay off in the longer-term. This is part of the reason why.
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The best thing about this release imo? The BEST thing? We're moving to git straight after it.
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One minor annoyance for us scroll bar haters: there is now a horizontal-scroll-bar-mode to disable
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Ahh. This gets posted right as I'm about to launch the new site. D'oh :-)
Hopefully once the DNS changes propagate the transition should be smooth sailing from then on.
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Nice site - I hadn't come across it before.
Congratulations though, for having one of the only sites I've encountered where I have to zoom out 2 steps to make the font a usable size. Not designed for my 1366x768 laptop :).
Edit: a gorgeous read on my work 2560x1600 monitor though ;)
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I have 1920 x 1080 and the font size is huuuge (29px). I had to zoom you to 67/75% to be able to read it.
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Same here.
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I've tweaked the font a bit -- more to come this weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience!
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No problem. It's just funny because most often it's the opposite problem - some tiny font because the site is made by someone with a 17" screen with 1024x768 resolution...
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ok, the new look is totally epic.
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Glad you like it :)
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Fonts are a tad big.
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Thanks. I'm working to fix this as we speak.
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Just a note. I am red/green color blind and I can't tell the links from the normal text.
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I'll have a look at this right away!
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So what's the difference between CUA-mode and TMM, and why are there two of them?
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Both provide a "transient" region that isn't always present. CUA mode also provides the normal keybindings used in other programs, C-c to copy and C-v to paste, for example. TMM uses Emacs keybindings.
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This has been posted 9 months ago, but given the imminent release of 24.4, I thought it would be useful to see once again.
I plan on revising the list with any new additions since then.
Thanks for putting these out, along with the rest of the site. I find them invaluable, and I'm sure I'm one of many.
Thank you :)
Emacs 24.4 developing team stopped adding new features over 9 months ago, just bugs need to be fixed, if a new list needs to be made, I believe nothing will change,