In this talk, John Wiegley will briefly summarize important developments on the road to Emacs 29. He will not be able to answer questions right now, but you can post questions in the pad and he can follow up after the event.
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Format: 6-min talk followed by after the conference Q&A (#emacsconf-gen)
Etherpad:
Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-gen](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-gen)
Status: Q&A finished, IRC and pad will be archived on this page
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00:00:00.000 Introduction
00:19.320 Emacs 29 release cycle
00:42.400 Overlays
01:29.080 Eglot
01:46.480 Tree-sitter
02:30.840 Very long lines
03:35.240 SQLite
03:50.080 XInput
04:11.320 Pure GTK build
04:24.640 Drag and drop
04:31.400 Double-buffering on Microsoft Windows
04:35.240 Emoji input
05:00.080 End
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