ErgoEmacs v1.9.1 Release Notes Highlight

2010-11-18

Download ErgoEmacs at: http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/downloads/list

Detailed release notes is in the downloaded zip file.

(If you are on Mac or Linux, then you need to have emacs 23.2. For a list of download locations for pre-build emacs 23.2 for your platform, see: Which Emacs to Download for Windows and Mac?)

New version of ErgoEmacs keybinding package

The following keyboard layouts are supported:

• US
• US Dvorak (Ergonomic)
• UK
• UK Dvorak (Ergonomic)
• Spanish (Spain) (aka “Spanish (International sort)”)
• Italian
• Swedish
• Danish
• (Ergonomic) PT-Nativo from http://tecladobrasileiro.com.br
• (Ergonomic) Colemak http://colemak.com/

Other:

• There's open-in-desktop command with key 【Ctrl+Shift+o】.
• There's a open-last-closed command with key 【Ctrl+Shift+t】.
• The new keys for split window related commands are 【Ctrl+3】, 【Ctrl+4】, 【Ctrl+Shift+4】.
• 【Ctrl+p】 now asks for confirmation before printing.

New language modes

• Erlang
• Scala
• Clojure
• C Sharp
• New javascript modes
• new version of mode for OCaml
• new version of haskell-mode
• BBCode mode (xbbcode-mode)

Note: all major modes are listed in the menu “File‣Language Modes”.

New minor modes and features

• Enhanced bookmark feature (bookmark+).
• Enhanced directory viewer feature (dired+).
• Enhanced feature of name completition. (auto-complete-mode)
• Added tab bar GUI (tabbar-mode)
• 〔twit.el〕 for twitter.
• A Unicode browser 〔xub-mode.el〕
• Highlighting word under cursor 〔highlight-symbol.el〕
• Template set for HTML (yasnippet).
• Template set for emacs lisp (yasnippet).
• Abbrev set for coding emacs lisp

Other Misc improvements

New menu items and commands

• “Options‣Show/Hide Space and Tab”
• “Options‣Show/Hide‣line number in margin”
• “Options‣move through camelCaseWords”
• “File‣Open last closed”. 【Ctrl+Shift+t】 (open-last-closed)
• 【Ctrl+Shift+o】 (open-in-desktop)

Operating-System-wide ErgoEmacs keybindings utilities

There are several utilities that sets your OS to use ErgoEmacs keybinding. Download at xahlee.org System-wide ErgoEmacs Keybinding for Windows, Mac, Bash

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