There’s a new version of the 42-year-old libre text editor with over 2,000 built-in commands, reports LWN.net:
Highlights include a built-in Lisp threading mechanism that provides some concurrency, double buffering when running under X, a redesigned flymake mode, 24-bit color support in text mode, and a systemd [user] unit file.
The Free Software Foundation has released a 10,653-word description of all the new features in Emacs 26.1. Here’s a couple more:
The Emacs server now has socket-launching support. This allows socket based activation, where an external process like systemd can invoke the Emacs server process upon a socket connection event and hand the socket over to Emacs… This new functionality can be disabled with the configure option ‘–disable-libsystemd’.
The new function ‘call-shell-region’ executes a command in an inferior shell with the buffer region as input.
Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
The new user variable ‘electric-quote-chars’ provides a list of curved quotes for ‘electric-quote-mode’, allowing user to choose the types of quotes to be used.
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