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GNU Emacs, the powerful text editor, released new 31.1 version a few days ago.<\/p>\n
The new version was launched nearly a year after the previous release. It features much better completion, more powerful window\/frame management, unicode 17, and many other changes.<\/p>\n
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The new 31.1 removed the old The old It also added a new configure option to specify where the user unit file for systemd. And, it now defaults to Compatible terminals now have mouse support enabled by default. And, it can now automatically process a The completions can now appear immediately when the minibuffer opens. The results can update as you type. The flex completion algorithm was rewritten. And, it now has better navigation for vertical\/horizontal completion layouts.<\/p>\n Emacs 31.1 also added many tools for manipulating its layouts, including new commands to combine\/uncombine windows, split and merge frames, and rotate, flip, and transpose entire window layouts.<\/p>\n Frames now have unique numeric IDs, allowing scripts\/configurations to reliably identify them. And, new functions added for finding the most-recently-used frame.<\/p>\n For editing, it features new The Other changes include:<\/p>\n There are also a large amount of other changes. See the NEWS page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n The source tarball for the new version is available to download in GNU website via the link below:<\/p>\nunexec<\/code> dumper, that’s deprecated since Emacs 27, and now uses the portable dumper.<\/p>\nctags<\/code> program is no longer built or installed, while, user may use etags --ctags<\/code> instead.<\/p>\n-mfpmath=sse<\/code> or fallback to -fno-tree-sra<\/code> on 32-bit x86 ssytem with GCC 4 or later.<\/p>\nuser-lisp\/<\/code> directory in your configuration, byte-compiling files and adding them to load-path.<\/p>\nunfill-paragraph<\/code> command reverses fill-paragraph<\/code>, new commands for Unix-style word deletion, new center-line-mode<\/code>, and new commands for semantic linefeeds.<\/p>\nline-spacing<\/code> can now control spacing both above and below a line. C-w<\/code> can optionally delete the previous word when no region is active. And, Electric Pair can handle multiple pairs and multi-character delimiters such as \/* ... *\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n
mhtml-ts-mode<\/code> and go-work-ts-mode<\/code>.<\/li>\nicalendar-mode<\/code> for editing iCalendar data.<\/li>\ndelete-trailing-whitespace-mode<\/code>.<\/li>\n.npmrc<\/code> editing mode.<\/li>\nlua-mode<\/code>.<\/li>\nsystem-taskbar-mode<\/code> integrates Emacs with desktop taskbars\/docks.<\/li>\nsystem-sleep<\/code> package can prevent the system from sleeping and handle sleep\/wake events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nGet GNU Emacs 31.1<\/h3>\n