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
vsorg-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