Featuring a significantly faster (~8x) JSON parser, native compilation enabled by default, and the official release of the Android port.

Abridged Announcement:

Version 30.1 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now be available from your nearest GNU mirror:

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.xz

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-30.1.tar.gz

For a summary of changes in Emacs 30, see the etc/NEWS file in the tarball; you can view it from Emacs by typing ‘C-h n’, or by clicking Help->Emacs News from the menu bar.

You can also browse NEWS online using this URL:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30

Windows binaries can be found at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-30

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 days ago

    Any pointers to getting started? I can’t even get M-x - maybe I need a different on screen keyboard?

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      9 days ago

      the unexpected keyboard is pretty handy. it will feel a little weird at first, but you’ll get used to it. you can find it on fdroid and i think also on google play

      if you don’t want to get used to using the menu bar, tool bar, and the mode popup menu, you should look for a keyboard configuration that allows the onscreen keyboard to pop up regardless of the mode (by default, it will only pop up in read/write buffers)

      i also strongly recommend installing the termux version if you wanna do anything useful