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Jeffrey Walsh started off his 2021
linux.conf.au presentation with a
statement that, while 2020 was not the greatest year ever, there were still
some
good things that happened; one of those was the Emacs 27.1 release.
This major update brought a number of welcome new features, but also
led to yet another discussion on the future of
Emacs. With that starting point, Walsh launched into a fast-moving
look at the history of Emacs, why users still care about it, what changes
are coming, and (especially) what was involved in moving Emacs away from
the X window system and making it work with the Wayland compositor.