FSF Announces Version 21 of the GNU Emacs Editing Environment.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct, 22, 2001 The Free Software Foundation announced today the 21.1 release of GNU Emacs GNU Emacs - Emacs . Emacs is a Free Software multilingual text editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License A software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that ensures every user receives the essential freedoms that define "free" software, which is free of restrictions (see free software). (GNU GPL). Richard Stallman said, "Emacs 21 is a big step forward in our long-term plan to take Emacs from a programmable text editor to a programmable word processor." Emacs 21.1 includes support for proportional fonts: characters in a line can be of variable width and lines can have variable heights. It also supports including images in text. Emacs 21.1 adds a number of new user-interface features: it has tool bars for executing frequently used commands, it supports native scroll bars, it displays tool tips, and it has a mouse-sensitive mode line. Even on text-only terminals, Emacs 21.1 supports colors and other display attributes. With the release of version 21.1, the Emacs development sources are accessible via anonymous CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. from http://savannah.gnu gnu (n  ) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. .org/projects/emacs/. The anonymous CVS services are provided by Savannah Savannah, city, United StatesSavannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , GNU's SourceForge-like system for project collaboration. GNU Emacs 21.1 can be downloaded from the FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to directory at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/. Users are encouraged to use mirror sites for downloads. A list of mirrors can be found at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. GNU Emacs 21.1 has already been packaged for Debian. Users of Debian GNU/Linux's unstable branch can install GNU Emacs 21 via the APT system. About GNU Emacs: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Some of the features of GNU Emacs include: --Content-sensitive major modes for a wide variety of file types, from plain text to source code to HTML files. --Complete online documentation, including a tutorial for new users. --Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the European "Latin" scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts. --Many extensions for jobs such as reading and sending mail, reading net news, calendar, and diary. More Emacs extensions are distributed separately--even a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . History of Emacs: Richard Stallman developed the original Emacs text editor in 1975 while working at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The original Emacs used TECO (Text Editor and COrrector) A text editor written in 1963 by Dan Murphy at MIT for editing paper tape on a Digital PDP-1 computer (it was originally called "Tape Editor and Corrector"). as the user programming language. GNU Emacs, which uses Lisp as the user programming language, was started in September 1984 as part of developing the GNU operating system. Emacs has undergone continuous development since that time, and has been approved based on user bug reports and contributions from the Free Software community. About GNU: GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. Development of GNU began in 1984. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html gives more information about GNU and its history. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. |
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