"GNU Emacs 22.3 has been released, and is now available at
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ and the GNU FTP mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html) [...] Emacs 22.3 is a bugfix release." --
* see also: fix for a security vulnerability

"Emacs is a text editor which is far more powerful than most of its users realize. It can be (1) customized extensively to suit one's needs, (2) automated to save time and reduce tedium, and (3) extended to do virtually anything.

"I’ve been using Planner mode in Emacs for quite a while now but I’ve seen how nifty Org Mode works so I decided to try it out myself..."

http://orgmode.org/
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgTutorial.html
http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/org-column-view-tutorial.html

"The greatest single thing about Emacs is it's extensibility. If you think Emacs is missing something, or don't like how something works, you can change it. But that's true of any free software.

"A short screencast demonstrating the use of Rinari (an Emacs minor-mode for rails development).

RMS: "People are writing as if I had announced my final retirement. This is just a matter of other people maintaining Emacs. [...] This is the fourth time that the Maintainer of GNU Emacs has been someone other than me. Previous maintainers include Joe Arceneaux, Jim Blandy, and Gerd Moellmann."

-- SOURCES: [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02284.html ] -- [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02232.html ]

RMS: « ...I am sure it IS effective for convincing people to use [Emacs] when that is more convenient. I want to convince people to insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient..." »

RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --

Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --