Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post about some of the things he likes about Emacs 29. Irreal has posted a couple of articles on Emacs 29 and what is coming but Borkowski’s post is different in that he just mentions a few things about Emacs 29 that he, personally, really likes. Due to our craven nature, we here at Irreal mostly shy away from using unreleased Emacs versions. Emacs—and especially Org mode—are central to our workflow so the minions and I are loath to take chances.
Still, I enjoy reading about the experiences of those—like mbork—who are more courageous. The features that he calls out are not the big things that most commenters write about but a few small improvements that make the editing experience more pleasant.
Rather than reiterate the list of those features, I’ll send you to Borkowski’s post. Go take a look. You’ll probably learn something. I, for example, learned about the long standing command (not just Emacs 29) where-is. It’s the opposite of describe-key. Instead of taking a key and returning the command, where-is takes a command and returns the keys that are bound to it.
If, like me, you’re looking forward to the release of Emacs 29, you should take a look at Borkowski’s post. It will give you a small hint of some of the nice things that are coming.