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Emacs development update

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Talkat EmacsConf 2020 · 2020-11-28..11-29· [software-architecture]

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name:John Wiegley
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video:https://youtu.be/B9Rz0CwtnfY
slides:none on file

summary

Emacs makes Cairo plus HarfBuzz the default renderer in Emacs 28 and deprecates Xft, enabling color emoji and more robust font rendering; native compilation of Emacs Lisp lands but requires GCC 10 and happens per user with a 16‑core build still taking about 15 minutes and delivering native compilation ~2.5x execution speed over the bytecode interpreter; a GTK‑only build is being merged to rely on GTK as the primary toolkit; terminal mouse gains xt-mouse full support and Emacs 27.2 pretests start soon with emoji handling moved into C to support skin tones.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:33Cairo graphics improvements
  3. 1:22Native compilation update
  4. 2:46GTK modernization
  5. 3:21Enhanced mouse support
  6. 4:12Future releases and emoji

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