Rahul M. Juliato has an informative post on what’s coming in Emacs 31. Juliato doesn’t mind living on the edge and has been tracking and using Emacs from the Master and emacs-31 branches. He says he likes to know “what’s in the box” and the way to learn what’s coming is to is to live in it. That’s a little too exciting for me and perhaps for you but Juliato’s post gives us a view of what to expect.
The list is a long one and his post reflects that. It’s a lengthy post but it does a good job of describing what to expect. The thing he’s happiest about is that with this release tree-sitter “just works”. Now installing new grammars is pretty much automatic and there are grammars for more languages.
For those of you who have to—or for some reason, choose to—use Markdown instead of Org mode, the new markdown-ts-mode will be a welcome addition. The new mode has an Org mode feel so Org users will feel comfortable using it.
For those of you who like the completion system making your mind up for you, there are many enhancements to eager completion. That definitely not something I would want; I hate having the system change what I’m typing without my asking for it.
There are several other changes. Check out Juliato’s post for the details. It looks to be a nice release with plenty of improvements. People like Juliato help the development process by thoroughly testing new features for bugs and for suggested improvements.
The minions are insisting that I let you know that you can and should view Juliato’s post in light mode by flipping the switch at the top of the page. Sorry for the boring announcement but none of us wants to deal with disgruntled minions.