GNU project text editor release . Up until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project was developed under the personal direction of Richard Stallman, who project leader to John Wiegley in autumn 2015.
Of the most notable noteworthy are the provision of compatibility with the Unicode 11 specification, the ability to build Emacs modules outside the Emacs source tree, the introduction of the 'Z' command in Dired (mode for working with files and directories) to compress all files in a directory, improved support for Mercurial in VC mode.
When building in '--with-xwidgets' mode, the WebKit2 browser engine is now required. Changed the syntax of shadow configuration files ("~/.emacs.d/shadows" and "~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo").
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