It's the little changes that make you feel old

[jducoeur]

Emacs now has graphics in it. (Crappy graphics, to be sure, but pictures nonetheless.) Surely this is a sign of the end times...

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[jducoeur]

No shit? My heavy emacs days were, indeed, over ten years ago -- I was a deep guru once, but that was probably around 1992. (When I wrote a major mode to serve as the front end for our Ada IDE.)

I've been using it continuously ever since, but not particularly hard: just basic text editing, so I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the functionality. So I hadn't noticed the graphics until my download of the current version today, whapping me upside the head with a logo at startup and buttons along the top...

[mneme]

No shit. I remember the tiles from Xemacs moving into emacs around version 20(1997), though it might have been as late as 21 (2001).

There's a nifty emacs timeline here, though it doesn't have features, even major ones.