Xah Talk Show 2020-08-12, intro to emacs 27 features turned huge rant

Topic talked:

• Emacs Halloween Pumpkin
• Download Emacs for Windows/Mac/Linux
• Alt+x version to see the version number
• Alt+x outline-mode
• Alt+x describe-mode
• outline-mode vs org-mode
• buffer local variable
• Alt+x view-emacs-news 【Ctrl+h n】
• Atreus Keyboard
• Clojure: Leiningen Tutorial

GNU Emacs 27.1 features

• Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers
• Text shaping with HarfBuzz
• Native support for JSON parsing
• Better support for Cairo drawing
• Portable dumping used instead of unexec
• Support for XDG conventions for init files
• Additional early-init initialization file
• Lexical-binding is used by default
• Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line
• Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick

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