After two weeks of well-deserved vacation and other delays, I'm back to doing regular updates of emacs-snapshot. Here's a quick summary of the notable changes in Emacs CVS since my last post:
- longlines-mode was replaced by a more complete and reliable implementation of the same concept, visual-line-mode. It's based on a new low-level change to the display engine to support line wrapping at word boundaries.
- Fonts can now be customized on a per-buffer basis. S-Mouse-1 shows a new menu which allows to change the font used in the buffer, increase/decrease its size, or reset it to the default font setting (Options > Set Default Font). A new minor mode variable-pitch-mode enables non-proportional fonts in the current buffer, which is useful in Gnus articles or Info buffers.
- There's a new NeXTSTEP port which provides support for GNUStep (on GNU/Linux) and Cocoa (on Mac OS X).
- M-s is a new global binding for all things related to search like Occur, Hi-Lock, etc.
- Serial port access: Emacs can now be used as a serial terminal (like minicom), see M-x serial-term.
- Project-local variables: like file variables but for directories.
- New SVG splash screen images for Emacs and Gnus.
- New packages: proced.el, zeroconf.el, xesam.el, linum.el, ...
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