EmacsConf 2021: Emacs development updates - John Wiegley
Channel: EmacsConf and Emacs hangouts
Date: 2021-12-07

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00:00 Introduction
00:18 Emacs 28
00:33 Native compilation
02:36 Build with Cairo by default
02:55 New mode, but off by default: context-menus
03:22 Tab-bar and tab-line received many enhancements
03:37 A command can marked as specific to a mode
04:20 Transient input methods
05:00 show-paren-mode is enabled by default
05:14 We now have a Non-GNU ELPA
05:39 repeat-mode
06:18 project.el has dozens of new commands
06:26 Shorthands for Lisp symbols
06:54 Emacs 29 is just beginning