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Richard Stallman and the other members of the GNU Emacs development team are a rather reticent group of programmers. Unlike many other development projects in the free-software world, the Emacs beta program is restricted to a closed group of testers, and news of what progress is being made is scanty. In the past couple of months hints found in various usenet postings seemed to intimate that a new release of GNU Emacs was imminent, so every now and then I began to check the GNU main FTP site on the off-chance that a release had been made.
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Until 1999, GNU Emacs development was relatively closed, to the point where it was used as an example of the "Cathedral" development style in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The project has since adopted a public development mailing list and anonymous CVS access. Development takes place in a single CVS trunk, which is at version 22.1.50.
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It's been about a year since the last public GNU Emacs release, so there have been quite a few changes. One of the largest is the incorporation of the MULE (MUltiLingual Emacs) extensions, which give Emacs the capability of displaying extended character sets necessary for languages such as Chinese and Japanese. This won't be of interest to most English-speaking users, but if you're interested the necessary files are in a separate archive at the GNU site.
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GNU Emacs was initially targeted at computers with a 32-bit flat address space, and at least 1 MiB of RAM, at a time when such computers were considered high end. This left an opening for smaller reimplementations. Some noteworthy ones are listed here:
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Packages that have support for or rely on GNU Emacs can use two eclasses to do some recurring tasks in a simple way. The documentation of the functions are provided in the eclasses, so they are not repeated here! Format of documentation is to allow man-page generation from source.
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The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.
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