Questions tagged [emacs-development]
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What are the major features planned for GNU Emacs 25?
I attempted to install Emacs 24.4 through homebrew with the following command:
brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls
It ended up installing (a development build toward what might become) Emacs 25. I haven't been able to…
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What steps are necessary to start contributing to Emacs proper?
Now that Emacs is maintained in a git repository (AFAIK), this opens the door (at least for me) to intelligently explore Emacs as a F/OSS project to contribute to :)
Trouble is, I have no idea how to start doing so. CONTRIBUTING instructs the…
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Am I missing some spot, where the coordination/development of new Emacs versions happens?
Lately I was impressed by the new/improved things that are included with Emacs 25. Then I started thinking about the entire process behind it. I would like to share my thoughts with you.
Keeping it up with the latest requests, many bug fixes,…
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List of GNU Emacs enhancement requests, bugs, and milestones at any given time
In GitHub one can often find, for a given open-source project, the list of issues that have been reported and the estimated time-horizon that is considered for a given fix or enhancement.
Is there an equivalent repository where feature requests and…
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How do I make a public reply to a particular post in an Emacs bug report?
I am looking at the thread of a particular Emacs bug report through the bug-gnu-emacs archives. Suppose I want to make a public reply to one of the posts in the thread. On the web page of the post, I see a button I can use to reply:
If I click on…
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Looking for a Fedora 21 repository for current GNU Emacs development code
I'm asking here as I can't find it anywhere on the net: I was about to learn how Emacs is actually packaged for Fedora 21 (btw, thanks a lot to the maintainers) to do the same with the latest release, but if that's already done there's not much…
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Subscribing to an individual bug on debbugs
Is it possible to subscribe to an individual bug on https://debbugs.gnu.org/?
By subscribe, I mean that ideally one would receive all the e-mails sent to that bug report, but something like an RSS or Atom feed would also be useful.
I'm aware that…
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