Emacs 24.4 released

Re:Emacs 24.4 released by jmount on Monday October 20, 2014 @09:35PM (#8485509)

Building on OSX Mavericks (assuming XCode and XQuartz already around)

1) Download from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

   emacs-24.4.tar.gz

   emacs-24.4.tar.gz.sig

2) Confirm:

   gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys A0B0F199

   gpg --verify emacs-24.4.tar.gz.sig

3) Build (from INSTALL):

   cd emacs-24.4

   ./configure  --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no

   make

   src/emacs -Q 

   make install

4) run:

   /usr/local/bin/emacs

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by shiven on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:15PM (#8485611)

Alternatively: http://emacsformacosx.com/

Easy-peasy!!! (But, clearly, not as secure as verifying the sources and compiling yourself.)

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by sjm on Monday October 20, 2014 @09:45PM (#8485533)

Alternatively, until homebrew is updated you can run brew edit emacs and change the url and sha256 to match 24.4, then run brew install emacs with whatever options you would like (brew options emacs for a list). I haven't tested this yet, but it should work, and I will report back after I've tried.

edit: So this did work, I used the .tar.xz with sha256 47e391170db4ca0a3c724530c7050655f6d573a711956b4cd84693c194a9d4fd. One thing to note is that the old 24.3 stable formula has a bunch of patches applied that are no longer required, so you need to edit those out as well (this area: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...).

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by dgempesaw on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @08:56AM (#8487041)

Update a few hours later: without having tried it myself, it looks like the formula for emacs has been updated to 24.4:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/a0b095b/Library...

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by hollerith on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @01:56PM (#8488698)

The Homebrew package for Emacs with Mac-specific changes by a professor named YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu has also been updated:

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/commits/...

For 2 or 3 years now, whenever I have compared the two, the current version of "Mitsuharu" Emacs has always had fewer Cocoa-related bugs than the current (release) version of "FSF Emacs" (i.e., Emacs without the professor's patches applied). I am writing this comment because this Mitsuharu fellow seems very reticent about promoting his own (excellent) work.

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by sigzero on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @09:15AM (#8487125)

Sweet. Installing it when I get home.

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by tedunangst on Monday October 20, 2014 @10:26PM (#8485639)

Your key fetching command is vulnerable to the deadbeef attack. That could be anybody's key.

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by jmount on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @12:40AM (#8485921)

True, I didn't find any notes on what key to use and the key I typed in is the one the signature itself said was missing (so it is in fact a bad choice). Your criticism is valid. Sorry if I misled anyone, I meant to fix that but I didn't find much guidance on the gnu site as to what signatures to load to bootstrap trust.

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by jmount on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:24PM (#8493417)

Just a note: I think I was hoping (but didn't confirm) that I was downloading the key from GNU and the file from a mirror. So I thought I had the minor protection that I was at least safe from somebody who could only alter the mirror. But I agree with the criticism: not being clear what you are claiming to actually check in a crypto-situation can confuse others and cause harm. Sorry about that.

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Re:Emacs 24.4 released by tedunangst on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:34AM (#8486325)

No worries, end to end PGP leaves a lot to be desired, but I feel it's important to point out when the common recipe steps fail to protect against exactly the adversary one would think they do.

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