[ESS] Emacs 23.1 is out

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Aug 4 16:19:56 CEST 2009


Stephen Eglen wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> New releases of GNU Emacs don't happen very often, so I thought I'd copy
> this announcement to the list.  ESS has been working fine with the
> prereleases of Emacs 23.1.  One of the key new features here is that
> finally Emacs can use Xft for font rendering, which means antialiased
> text at last!!!  Viewing PDFs and postscript files in line is nice too.
> 
> Stephen

Well, I don't want to go off-topic tangent.  But, it compiles on OS X,
however, installation seems a little goofy.  I've been using the 
MacPorts emacs-app-devel instead or whatever it is called (who comes up 
with these nonsensical names?  ESS rolls off the tongue by contrast :0)

Rodney



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