Monday, July 6, 2009

Emacs 23

What I enjoy in the (beta) Emacs 23:

  1. It finally looks like a native Linux application
  2. Buffers automatically split horizontally
  3. It highlights the text selection by default

On Ubuntu, get it from this PPA. On Win, there's a decent EmacsW32 patched build.

screenshot

Ubuntu apt sources.list:

## emacs elisp ppa 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main