Emacs....Eww!

Is that how Vi users go when they hear Emacs?

Well, I don't know the answer to that but Lars has gone off to code up a browser of sorts for Emacs called Emacs Web Wowser.  And you can read his post on his rationale for developing it. It's part of the gnus git branch for now.

Me, I stay off the text browsers unless I'm trying to script some automated downloads, where I use lynx.

Traditional May 1st Gnus Release out

A bit late in posting about it but Lars has released MaGnus 0.7 with bug fixes and some improvements.  The Changelog in the link has the details

GNU Emacs Contributing Guide

If you ever wanted to contribute to Gnu Emacs development and didn't know where to start, well, worry no more.  Here's the first draft of it that will be soon be on the Emacs Web pages, thanks to Xue Fuqiao.

If this encourages more people to develop on and for Emacs, it'd be worth it.

Emacs 24.3 Released

Emacs 24.3 is finally out. Binaries can be got from the usual locations. If the Windows binaries are not out yet at your favourite mirror, wait a few days.  

Emacs Release Candidate RC2 out

Close on the heels of RC 1, RC 2 is out. Binaries can be found at the usual ftp://alpha.gnu.org.

Emacs 24.3 release candidate 1 out

In a short while, barring any new bugs, Emacs 24.3 will be out.  Till then, here's the first release candidate.

A Collection of LaTeX Letter Generation Threads

On comp.text.tex, over the last couple of days, there's been some interesting threads on letter templates, signatures and dates.  If you've used the komascript bundle(highly recommended), then it might be worthwhile to browse the threads as the package author Markus Kohm has responded to various letter related questions.  If you're learning komascript, you might find the thread useful. The package is available on  MiKTeX and TeXLive.


And may I once again reiterate that the new google groups interface is stunning in its ability to create UI confusion.  I just don't know where to look, find and generally navigate.  Maybe, it's because I've never been on Facebook?

An Emacs Conference in London!

Finally, someone has done it. A website, a twitter account and a call for participants.  Let's hope this is the start of something beautiful.

  - Web site:
    http://emacsconf.org

  - Mailing list:
    http://lists.hugadev.com/listinfo.cgi/emacs-conf-hugadev.com

  - Twitter account
    @EmacsConf

  - Talks organization document:
    https://github.com/dotemacs/emacsconf-organisation/blob/master/talks.org

Emacs 24.3 second pretest out

The second pretest of what will be Emacs 24.3 is now out.

The new www.ctan.org

Looks like www.ctan.org has refreshed their website with a new look. Christmas seems to have come early for the LaTeX community.  You can read more about the announcement here and the subsequent thread replies might be of interest too.