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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:
-   Q: Does the user need to do anything to turn on support for long
    lines?
    -   A:
    -   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:
-   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:
- 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.
- 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?

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!
-   Thanks John! Thanks Eli!

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