Comment by deng | Hacker News Reader

Comment by deng | Hacker News Reader

A few more (personal) highlights from the release:

* New minor mode 'pixel-scroll-mode' provides smooth pixel-level scrolling.

* The networking code has been reworked so that it's more asynchronous than it was (DNS resolution and TLS negotiation do not block Emacs main thread).

* Emacs no longer prompts about editing a changed file when the file's content is unchanged. Instead of only checking the modification time, Emacs now also checks the file's actual content before prompting the user.

* A new submode of 'html-mode', 'mhtml-mode', is now the default mode for html files. This mode handles indentation, fontification, and commenting for embedded JavaScript and CSS.

* Improved CSS mode

* Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.

Also better look and feel[1] for Mac (including dark mode) users with

  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-transparent-titlebar . t))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-appearance . dark))

[1]: https://imgur.com/aRdxPk0

Wow, just tried it out and it looks really good. What theme are you using? (ref. screenshot)

It's doom-nord from the doom-themes package.

The first just makes my titlebar white, not transparent. The second doesn't seem to do anything. I'm using the updated binary from emacsformacosx.com.

You may need to restart emacs after adding those lines to your config. Creating a fresh frame also seems to work, if you use daemon mode.

Restarting did the trick for me (also emacsformacosx.com).

Did you do anything to increase your modeline's height?

mhtml-mode sounds interesting, I've been using http://web-mode.org/ to get the same handling of nested CSS/JS in HTML-files.

Also native linum mode.

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