Re: Emacs Development

[Charles Sebold]

Set followups to gnu.emacs.help, as this is on-topic there...

On 22 Heshvan 5761, Fernando Dobladez wrote:

> I would like to get information about the current state of Emacs
> development, but I could not find any public website, or CVS
> repository.  (neither www.emacs.org nor
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html have that kind of info).
> 
> I'd love to see how it's developing is going on, what new features are
> being implemented/discussed, contribute, motivate :-), propose
> enhancements...

Well, Emacs (at this time) is developed by a core group, and CVS access
is not public.  This may change in the future.  However, anyone is
welcome to the source of the latest released version (20.7) and
contributions seem to be welcomed by the developers.

Having said all that, yesterday I ran across a tarball at alpha.gnu.org,
with an alpha release of Emacs 21.  I do not know if bug reports are
being accepted from the general public for that release yet...could
someone "in the know" comment on this?

> As a very silly example, I'd like to suggest a small modification to
> the interactive "occur" function: I think the default REGEXP used for
> the search should not be the last one used, but the word at point.

This _is_ on-topic for this group, I believe.
-- 
Charles Sebold
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