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# Emacs development updates
John Wiegley
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What has been happening and what is soon to come in Emacs development
Bio: John Wiegley is a past maintainer of Emacs and frequent contributor of Emacs Lisp.
# Discussion
## Questions and answers
- Q: Any word on bringing someone like John W. back in in a maintainer
role? I think someone like him is good in that role and miss seeing
his messages as frequently!
- A: I very much appreciate the support! but now is not a good time. I have other
distractions that would detract from my ability to support the community
properly.
- Q: Does the user need to do anything to turn on support for long
lines?
- A: No! Just editing files with long lines should become much faster.
- Side note intersting vidoes about long lines
- <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3wB3xiMmU> Emacs Long
Lines Fix
- <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kflDJ9L4siw> Emacs Long
Lines, This Time With Feeling
- Q: Having emace init comand line option is nice" no more chemacs
for multiple emacs configs" and would make starter packs eaiser to
test, or makeing applications or scripts based off of emacs easier
to do. Is there anything else following this decection?
- A: I don't really follow this question well enough to have an answer!
- Q: The discussion during Howard's Eshell talk indicated demand for
enhancing Eshell and its documentation. For those of us interested
in pursuing that, where should we start? Should we explore moving it
from core into an independent package?
- A: Certainly new development could happen in an independent repository, with
releases delivered back to the Emacs repository. There are other packages that
also do this.
- Q: has any date been set for 29 release?
- someone else: I haven't seen dates on devel. The branch was just cut so I would expect it will be at least a few months. Could be longer as there are so many new features in 29 (tree-sitter, sql-lite, use-package to name a few I'm hyped for)
- someone else: Seems like a good release for dropping legacy and using all the new stuff everybody else is using. wayland, lsp, tree-sitter, better performance on long lines.
- A: I'm not aware of a specific date, but if you follow the emacs-devel list, updates are sometimes posted.
- Is tree-sitter useful if you want to parse all the code in an application or is it more narrow, i.e. just for interactive parsing of changing code?
- A: I imagine it's generally useful for parsing any sort of text that you want to
perform structural analysis on, whether in whole, in part or incrementally. I
recommend checking out the web documentation on the tree-sitter libraries.
Notes and other feedback:
- XInput 2 support author here. X has historically seen three
input APIs: Core Input, legacy XInput, and XInput 2. Emacs only
ever used the first until Emacs 29, where it jumped straight to
using the last. So it's not quite an ``update'', but rather an
entirely new feature. Thanks for the great talk!
- A: Good to know, thank you for that clarification!
- Thanks John! Thanks Eli!
## Notes
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