Emacs 22.1 released

GNU Emacs 22.1 has been released. It is available on the GNU ftp sites at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ and its mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). Please send any bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You can use the function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this.

Here are some new features of Emacs 22. See etc/NEWS for a complete list.

  • Support for the GTK+ graphical toolkit.
  • Drag-and-drop support on X.
  • Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 and x86-64 machines, and for Mac OS X, and for Windows using Cygwin.
  • Full support for images, toolbar, and tooltips on MS-Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X builds.
  • Font Lock mode, Auto Compression mode, File Name Shadow Mode, and mouse wheel support are enabled by default.
  • Double the maximum size of buffers, up to 256M on 32-bit machines.
  • Links can be followed with `mouse-1', in addition to `mouse-2'.
  • Customizable window fringes.
  • Many user interface tweaks, including the highlighting of the selected window's mode line and a distinct minibuffer prompt face.
  • Abbrev definitions are read automatically at startup.
  • The Kmacro package for managing keyboard macros.
  • Full graphical user interface to GDB.
  • New modes and packages, including Calc, Grep, TRAMP, URL, IDO, CUA, ERC, rcirc, Table, Image-Dired, SES, Ruler, Org, PGG, Flymake, Password, Printing, Reveal, wdired, t-mouse, longlines, savehist, Conf mode, Python mode, DNS mode, etc.
  • Leim, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, and the Emacs Lisp Intro included.

You can help the FSF as well as yourself by ordering the Emacs Manual or the Emacs Lisp Manual from the Free Software Foundation. New editions for Emacs 22 are being printed soon. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.

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Debian packages

Romain Francoise is doing a fabulous work packaging CVS version of GNU Emacs. His packages will continue to follow the Emacs 22 branch for a while.

To install emacs-snapshot on Debian unstable (sid), put the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main
deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main

To install emacs-snapshot on Debian oldstable (sarge) or Debian stable (etch), put the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sarge main
deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sarge main

Then run aptitude update. You can then install one or several of the following packages: emacs-snapshot, emacs-snapshot-gtk or emacs-snapshot-nox.