tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655181891032934202024-02-20T04:58:40.486+05:30Got Emacs?Postings on living in an Emacs world. Posts will be mostly on using Emacs, related functions and tools.sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-46051258849259310622017-04-21T22:01:00.000+05:302017-04-21T22:01:21.401+05:30Emacs 25.2 Released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The bug fix version of Emacs 25.2 is released. More <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00619.html">information can be seen in the official announcement</a></div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-7763270531017737532017-02-26T13:21:00.001+05:302017-02-26T13:21:29.673+05:30Emacs 25.2 RC2 out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2016-08/msg00001.html">second release candidate of what will be Emacs 25.2</a> is out.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-57208379894896822322017-02-06T08:58:00.000+05:302017-02-17T16:25:38.041+05:30Emacs 25.2 RC1 out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first release candidate for <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-02/msg00106.html" target="_blank">what will be the 25.2 release of Emacs </a>is out. </div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-81583937413617831182016-09-18T17:58:00.000+05:302016-09-18T17:58:20.924+05:30Windows Binaries are out too<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Looks like the binaries for <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/207513" target="_blank">Windows 32 and 64 bit can be found in the pretest folder, done by Philip Lord</a>. If you have any worries about <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/" target="_blank">downloading from sourceforge </a>that is.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-27978801180858672982016-09-18T08:02:00.001+05:302016-09-18T08:02:23.140+05:30Emacs 25.1 released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finally, <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00451.html" target="_blank">Emacs 25.1 is released.</a> The windows binaries would take some time to turn up. Hopefully the new TLS features would help in setting up mail connectivity easier to deal with.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-59105912835600069482016-02-06T12:03:00.002+05:302016-02-06T12:03:53.091+05:30Ma Gnus v0.16 is released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sxemacs.devel/3651" target="_blank">last separate release of Gnus</a>. Future releases will be from the Emacs git trunk. This release is mostly bug fixes and the release notes are found in the link above</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-27972557536721092232016-01-31T00:09:00.002+05:302016-02-06T12:00:41.049+05:30First Pretest of Emacs 25.1 out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/199041" target="_blank"> pretest of Emacs 25.1</a> is out. Do test and report any bugs</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-11223380249253187482015-06-23T11:29:00.003+05:302015-06-23T11:29:59.932+05:30EmacsConf 2015 (Announcement)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This should be interesting in that there's enough buzz for a <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/187401" target="_blank">Emacs conference</a>. And they're looking for speakers. This is in San Franscisco, CA.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-34671302003143819792015-04-11T11:11:00.001+05:302015-04-11T11:11:19.177+05:30Emacs 24.5 released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In what is <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/185268" target="_blank">a bug fix release, Emacs 24.5 is out</a>.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-34603011676508624772015-04-06T22:06:00.000+05:302015-04-06T22:06:32.542+05:30Emacs 24.5 third release candidate out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/184982" target="_blank">The third (and hopefully last) release candidate for the 24.5 release</a><br />
<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/184982" target="_blank">of Emacs</a> is out.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-77715457517839129212015-04-03T00:29:00.001+05:302015-04-03T00:29:28.143+05:30Emacs 24.5 second release candidate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/184757" target="_blank">2nd release candidate of Emacs 24.5 is </a>now available.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-35806575404461009222015-03-29T12:43:00.001+05:302015-03-29T12:43:25.404+05:30Emacs 24.5 first release candidate is out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/184371" target="_blank">first release candidate of 24.5 is out for testing</a>.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-47595834303954921522015-03-10T07:20:00.003+05:302015-03-10T07:20:43.812+05:30Second Emacs pretest 24.4.90 available<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/183729" target="_blank">second Emacs pretest is now available</a> for testing at the usual places.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-5498026603348335512015-02-18T00:17:00.001+05:302015-02-18T00:17:29.089+05:30Emacs 24.5 Pretest released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/183187" target="_blank"> first pretest for what will be the 24.5 release of Emacs is available</a>.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-3392246119388148872015-02-02T23:04:00.000+05:302015-02-02T23:04:12.594+05:30Emacs Tip: ESC ESC ESC is the same as C-g<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you want to abort some action and were used to <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ESC </span>on Windows, the only difference in Emacs apparently,<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/182236" target="_blank"> is to hammer away at the<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> ESC</span> key to mimic <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">C-g</span></a>. It might be a good idea to do a <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">C-h k</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ESC ESC ESC</span> to check the chords description.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-37536585600699421522014-10-26T07:38:00.001+05:302014-10-26T07:39:37.117+05:30Update your package search url as melpa.milkbox.net is now melpa.org<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a couple of days <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/2k2kmv/melpamilkboxnet_is_now_melpaorg/" target="_blank">but the url has changed to melpa.org</a>. You may need to change your<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> .emacs</span> file from <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") </span>to <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")</span></div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-10440307764184378122014-10-21T08:48:00.002+05:302014-10-21T08:48:42.968+05:30Emacs 24.4 released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00713.html" target="_blank">Well, here's the official release mail on Emacs 24.4.</a> The Windows versions aren't out yet but will turn up in a few days.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-90119754081465231872014-10-18T20:05:00.000+05:302014-10-18T20:05:30.479+05:30Emacs 24.4 release candidate 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Looks like <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00626.html" target="_blank">Emacs release candidate is out</a> and that the official release will come in a few days. In related news,<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg00153.html" target="_blank"> Alexander Shukaev has posted on the help-gnu-emacs mailing lists about providing precompiled Emacs versions along with the DLLs for Windows</a>. It may save time for those of you who need specific features that are not compiled into the official release. You should direct your queries to Alexander, on the list, I think, if you need any clarifications.<br />
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sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-25961853158199294852014-08-20T23:25:00.000+05:302014-08-20T23:25:14.651+05:30Emacs fourth pretest released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Missed the announcement but the<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/173682" target="_blank"> fourth pretest is now available for testing</a>.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-88626545395065598762014-06-30T08:19:00.000+05:302014-06-30T08:19:21.722+05:30Emacs Third Pretest Released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A bit late in posting about it but here is <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/172761" target="_blank">official pretest release announcement</a>. The Windows binaries take a bit of time to appear if you can't see it already.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-57389874585880876402014-05-14T21:50:00.002+05:302014-05-14T21:50:38.653+05:30Editor wars redux in the mainstream press<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From a post on comp.emacs, here's an <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/oldest_software_rivalry_emacs_and_vi_two_text_editors_used_by_programmers.single.html" target="_blank">article on slate comparing Emacs and Vi</a>. Doesn't say anything new to people familiar to Emacs and Vi. Just that it's there at all in some minor mainstream press.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-13562114370091107272014-05-14T21:41:00.000+05:302014-05-14T21:41:18.105+05:30Emacs Second Pretest Released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/171810" target="_blank">Emacs pretest 24.3.91 has been released</a>. The binaries can be found at the usual places or you can check the links on the right.<br />
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sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-59392899881766933782014-05-05T08:04:00.000+05:302014-05-05T08:04:04.226+05:30Traditional May 1st Release of Gnus, Ma Gnus v0.11 is out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sorry for the delayed posting but <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84499" target="_blank">Ma Gnus V0.11 is released</a>. You can get it by<br />
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git clone http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git && cd gnus && git checkout m0-11<br />
or download the release from http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/snapshot/gnus-m0-11.zip<br />
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sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-48409965629179083052014-04-14T21:52:00.001+05:302014-04-14T21:52:40.845+05:30Emacs 24.4 first pretest released<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From the emacs-devel list, <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/171413" target="_blank">the first emacs pretest is out for testing</a>. Please do take it for a spin. The Win binaries will come in a few days.</div>
sivaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11777616173976636799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165518189103293420.post-29161959040551661942014-04-01T23:18:00.001+05:302014-04-01T23:18:58.256+05:30Some interesting Emacs threads and LaTeX news<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
C K Kashyap posited some new requirements on code folding and <a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/96791" target="_blank">there were a number of interesting responses</a> culminating with a link to <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HideRegion" target="_blank">HideRegion</a>. You probably should stick to <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HideShow" target="_blank">hide-show</a> or <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OutlineMode" target="_blank">OutlineMode </a>and venture into these solutions only if there is a use case that is not met by hide-show. :)<br />
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Did you<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/96817" target="_blank"> forget to enable auto-fill while writing text</a>? No worries, you can fix the written text with a<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/96818" target="_blank"> simple C-x h M-q</a> .<br />
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Have some file and project management stuff that you want Emacs to handle? Here's <a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/96827" target="_blank">a thread on what one user would like to see as project management that he wants emacs to do some heavy lifting</a>. Might be worth your time to check it out.<br />
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BTW, there's a new site <a href="http://pgfplots.net/">pgfplots.net</a> for fantastic LaTeX plotting by the LaTeX guru Stefan Kottwitz. You should check it out and contribute your pgfplots to it.</div>
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