{"id":48198,"date":"2025-02-24T05:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48198"},"modified":"2025-02-24T05:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:55:39","slug":"gnu-emacs-30-1-android-improved-touchscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/gnu-emacs-30-1-android-improved-touchscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Emacs 30.1 Released with Android & Improved Touchscreen Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GNU Emacs text editor released new 30.1 version on Sunday with many new features.<\/p>\n

Emacs is finally ported to Android<\/b> operating system. Though, it requires to be compiled on another computer with Android NDK, SDK and Java compiler. See the “INSTALL” file under java<\/code> sub-folder of the source for details.<\/p>\n

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The new release also improved touchscreen devices support. It now supports tapping tool-bar buttons and opening menus. And, countless packages (such as Dired and Custom) have been adjusted to better understand touch screen input.<\/p>\n

Emacs 30.1 introduced new trusted-content<\/code> option. It defines list of files and directories whose content that Emacs trusts. Meaning it might execute the code within those files and directories even without any explicit user request.<\/p>\n

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The release also introduced new which-key<\/code> package, which implements the global minor mode which-key-mode<\/code> that displays a table of key bindings upon entering a partial key chord and waiting for a moment.<\/p>\n

The 30.1 release now has native JSON support without external libjansson library is required, and --with-json<\/code> configure option has been removed as it no longer required. And, native compilation is enabled by default in the release, though user can disable it by using --with-native-compilation=no<\/code> configure option.<\/p>\n

On Linux, the emacsclient.desktop<\/code> now arranges for Emacs to be default app for org-protocol<\/code>. The ‘org-protocol’ links should now open in Emacs automatically without any configuration.<\/p>\n

Other change include new tool-bar-position<\/code> parameter to set tool bar to bottom, default to ossaudio for sound on NetBSD and OpenBSD, as well as following changes:<\/p>\n