The Gnu Project has released Emacs 23.1 open source editor (GPL license).
New features in this release include:
- Improved Unicode support (the internal character representation is now based on UTF-8).
- Font rendering with Fontconfig and Xft.
- Support for using X displays and text terminals in one session, and for running as a daemon.
- Shift-selection.
- Smarter minibuffer completion.
- Per-buffer text scaling.
- Directory-local variables.
It also adds support for
editing XML documents with on-the-fly validation in
nXML mode and editing Ruby programs.