Propose Emacs 22 for Fedora Core 7

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 13:27:32 UTC 2006


Hi there,

I'm a big fan of Emacs and I like to build Emacs from source. So
whether FC7 is gonna have Emacs 22 does not concern me much. However I
think it is important to have this modernized powerful tool available
to our current and prospective Fedora users.

As we know RMS is extremely strict on fixing bugs, Emacs 22 has long
passed the production quality while still in development. A few days
ago, Emacs's developers have decided to enter pretest¹. As it is in
the early stage of FC7 cycle, I'd propose we upgrade to Emacs 22. The
News is just too big for this mailing list, but you can read it here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/emacs/etc/NEWS?root=emacs

A few highlights:
  - much improved Unicode support
  - Gtk2 menu, toolbar and scrollbar
  - Gnome style icons
  - Tons of add-on packages (calc 2.05, Gnus 5.11, ido etc)

Footnotes: 
¹  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/61249
-- 
Leo




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