Whats New in Emacs 24

Re:Whats New in Emacs 24 by jbellis on Sunday January 02, 2011 @09:16AM (#2060037)

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates

What changed to go from releases every 4-7 years, to releases every 1-2 years?

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Re:Whats New in Emacs 24 by abrahamsen on Sunday January 02, 2011 @10:46AM (#2060189)

My guess: New maintainers:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021...

I like the new policy, which seems to be one potentially disrupting new technology per major release. Previously, major releases tried to do too much at once, which lead to some very unstable and sometimes alienating .0 releases.

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Re:Whats New in Emacs 24 by rbanffy on Sunday January 02, 2011 @04:01PM (#2061017)

It's really hard to find features missing from Emacs after 23 releases.

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Re:Whats New in Emacs 24 by gcr on Sunday January 02, 2011 @06:01PM (#2061399)

No kidding! Emacs 23 even added support antialiased text for heavens sake. Who needs such a useless feature?

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Re:Whats New in Emacs 24 by rbanffy on Sunday January 02, 2011 @06:29PM (#2061464)

Emacs always had anti-aliased text if you used it within a terminal that had it.

I never missed anti-aliased text that much - there are plenty of good fonts that render well without it. Now that it has, it looks much better. However, the idea of giving up its power in order to get pretty fonts with a lesser editor is ludicrous.

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