At last, Emacs 24.4 is getting released next Monday (the 20th). To
commemorate, I took a stroll through the “News” file and picked a
few new features that spoke to me the most. I had to cut dozens of
interesting items for it to fit the format of this blog. And I still
had to divide it into 3 parts.
Today, I’ll just list my reaction to some sweet new features. Worthy
of mention: back in December 2013 Mickey made a huge post also listing
new features, and Bozhidar has been doing a series of great posts on
the subject.
Favourite New Features
New [Tramp] connection method "adb", which allows to access Android.
Woohoo!
New hook eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook run by eval-expression on entering the minibuffer.
You can enable ElDoc inside the eval-expression minibuffer.
This is awesome! Try it now! Evaluate the following, then call
M-: and type something like (message.
The Messages buffer is created in messages-buffer-mode, a new
major mode, with read-only status. Any code that might create the
Messages buffer should call the function messages-buffer to do so
and set up the mode.
New option load-prefer-newer affects how the load function chooses the file to load.
Hopefully, someday, t will be the default value of this. For the
moment, make sure you add (setq load-prefer-newer t) so you’re never
accidentally using outdated compiled files.
New library subr-x.el with miscellaneous small utility functions: hash-table-keys, hash-table-values, string-blank-p, string-empty-p, string-join, string-reverse, string-trim-left, string-trim-right, string-trim, string-remove-prefix, string-remove-suffix
Get in the habit of using these functions. They greatly reduce the need
for the s- package, not that there’s anything wrong with it but less
package dependencies lead to a cleaner environment.
Sweet New Features in 24.4
12 Oct 2014, by Artur Malabarba.New in 24.4 post series
At last, Emacs 24.4 is getting released next Monday (the 20th). To commemorate, I took a stroll through the “News” file and picked a few new features that spoke to me the most. I had to cut dozens of interesting items for it to fit the format of this blog. And I still had to divide it into 3 parts.
Today, I’ll just list my reaction to some sweet new features. Worthy of mention: back in December 2013 Mickey made a huge post also listing new features, and Bozhidar has been doing a series of great posts on the subject.
Favourite New Features
Woohoo!
This is awesome! Try it now! Evaluate the following, then call M-: and type something like
(message.It displays in the mode-line!
I've announced my joy for this before.
Hopefully, someday,
twill be the default value of this. For the moment, make sure you add(setq load-prefer-newer t)so you’re never accidentally using outdated compiled files.Get in the habit of using these functions. They greatly reduce the need for the
s-package, not that there’s anything wrong with it but less package dependencies lead to a cleaner environment.Like
eval-after-load, but you don’t need to quote the body.User-experience, user-experience, user-experience.
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