Re: Suggestions for "Emacs development updates" at Emacs Conf

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:20:06 +0000
>> 
>> Sacha Chua has asked me to present this years "Emacs development update"
>> at Emacs Conf [0], specifically focusing on Emacs 30.  I think we have a
>> good overview of the most interesting features from Emacs 30 on Emacs
>> Wiki [1], or is there anything else we should mention?
>> 
>> I wanted to ask if someone could summarise me the status of the the
>> incremental GC branch?  From what I understand (as I didn't have the
>> time to follow the thread), that is the biggest upcoming feature.
>> 
>> [0] https://emacsconf.org/2024/
>> [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsThirtyHighlights
>
> It isn't clear to me whether your presentation should focus on Emacs
> 30 or Emacs 31 or something else.  The igc branch may be ready in time
> for Emacs 31, but even that is not sure at this time; it certainly
> won't be in Emacs 30.

The idea was to focus on Emacs 30; I was just wondering if there was
already something that would be worth mentioning from Emacs 31.

> IMO, it's too early to talk about what will be in Emacs 31.  Even if
> you want to describe a small number of major new features, there's not
> yet enough stuff in NEWS for that.  Better support for DND on Windows
> and color fonts on MS-Windows is probably good news for users of
> Windows, but that's Windows-only news.
>
> If the subject is interesting future developments in Emacs, then igc
> is by far the most interesting one.  But I don't have any suggestions
> for any others.

OK, then I'll probably just talk about Emacs 30.

> For Emacs 30, just go by Antinews in the two manuals: they are
> supposed to mention the more important changes.

1+

> HTH, and thanks in advance.

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