I've recently read about these new features that are making their way into Emacs CVS. (You can check out many of these by compiling from CVS or using a recent snapshot.) It may be a while before Emacs 23 is released, but never let it be said that Emacs is stagnant:
- Emacs is now a viewer for PDF, PS and DVI files (screencast). The new doc-view mode is automatically activated when you visit any of those file types.
- Emacs is getting D-Bus support. D-Bus provides a channel for Emacs to talk to other desktop and system applications that support it.
- Tramp (remote file access) is now faster than ever because it caches all the diagnostics it performs on each host.
- As I've previously mentioned, VC-mode is being reworked to better deal with changeset-oriented and distributed VCS.
- With the merging of the Unicode branch, Emacs will get, among other things, gorgeous anti-aliased font rendering.
- The multi-TTY branch allows a currently running Emacs to open frames on other displays and TTYs. This means emacsclient is now a fast and proper editor for terminal programs that invoke an editor.
Update: Emacs is also getting support for status area icons and notifications. Hopefully this will lead to better integration with the rest of the desktop for Emacs-based applications.
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