Another talk in the 2021 EmacsConf program is John Wiegley’s video on what’s coming in Emacs. Almost all of the talk is about new features in Emacs 28, of course. The talk is only 7 minutes, 17 seconds long so you should watch it if you have any interest in Emacs and where it’s going.

Here’s a list of the features Wiegley covers, cut from the talk transcript:

• Native compilation
• Build with Cairo by default
• New mode, but off by default: context-menus
• Tab-bar and tab-line received many enhancements
• A command can marked as specific to a mode
• Transient input methods
• show-paren-mode is enabled by default
• We now have a Non-GNU ELPA
• repeat-mode
• project.el has dozens of new commands
• Shorthands for Lisp symbols

Again, if you’re an Emacs user, you should definitely spend the time to watch this.