Emacs 25.2 released

Dupe of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14169797" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14169797</a>

For those on MacOS, I suggest this port of emacs : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;mituharu&#x2F;emacs-mac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;mituharu&#x2F;emacs-mac&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s basically the same as the distribution from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;emacsformacosx.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;emacsformacosx.com</a>, but it supports various enhancements made for mac, eg. resize text size with trackpad, smooth buffer scrolling and SVG support, which is quite convenient when used with the jupyter notebook interface and producing plots. See for instance : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;vEI2z" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;vEI2z</a>.

Since the link posted leads to the Emacs home page, the changes made are here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;news&#x2F;NEWS.25.2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;news&#x2F;NEWS.25.2</a>

Is there a gentle way of picking up Emacs?<p>I&#x27;ve been trying Spacemacs with Evil mode on (I&#x27;m a regular Vim user), and I can kind of manage to use it for day-to-day editing and running Make, but it feels like I&#x27;m about to be eaten by snakes because I now have to deal with three additional meta key-combos (alt-x, C-c and space-m) in addition to the one I had for i3 (now banished from alt to Win) and I also have to learn escape codes to use my terminal and use them a lot to Vim on remote hosts over SSH.

Has there been any update to the status of GuileEmacs? I have read that it aims to be &quot;the future of Emacs&quot;, but I rarely see mention of Guile from the Emacs community.

This is (mostly) a bugfix release. Emacs 26 will have some major goodies, threads being one.

Emacs and VIM are probably those two software pieces that to me look like from another era that I have not lived through and thus cannot get my head around.

As an Emacs user, I still don&#x27;t get why they have the menu bar and tool bar, they have always been harder to use than the other methods of interaction, and most people don&#x27;t discover much through them anyway since the menu bar is so cluttered.<p>Nonetheless, very happy with it once I put in my relatively small config.

Wow, the Emacs website is really pretty. But I like vim&#x27;s one too - I feel they symbolize the internal ideals: vim being lean and small with just the essentials (at just 230 kB) while Emacs is more fully loaded (930 kB).

fun, archlinux already updated the package.