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1 -*- mode:outline; minor-mode:outl-mouse -*-
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2 C-c TAB This shows subheadings (if any) of current heading.
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3 C-c C-s Show _all_ the text and headings under current heading
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4
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5
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6 * Introduction
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7 ==============
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8
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9 This file presents some general information about XEmacs. It is primarily
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10 about the evolution of XEmacs and its release history.
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11
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12 There are five sections.
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13
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14 Introduction................(this section) provides an introduction
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16 Using Outline Mode..........briefly explains how to use outline mode
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17
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18 XEmacs Release Notes........detailed changes to this release
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19
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20 Future Plans for XEmacs.....what's next
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21
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22 The History of XEmacs.......some historical notes
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23
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24 A Long List of Packages.....all the stuff in XEmacs
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25
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26 What Changed................between versions and also FSF GNU Emacs
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28 New users should look at the next section on "Using Outline Mode".
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29 You will be more efficient when you can navigate quickly through this
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30 file. Users who want to know which capabilities have been introduced
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31 in this release should look at the "XEmacs Release Notes." Users
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32 interested in some of the details of how XEmacs differs from GNU Emacs
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33 should read the section "What Changed?".
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34
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35 N.B. The term "FSF GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs
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36 Version 19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do
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37 not say just "GNU Emacs" because Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"]
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38 thinks that this term is too generic; although we sometimes say
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39 e.g. "GNU Emacs 19.30" to refer to a specific version of FSF GNU
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40 Emacs. The term "XEmacs" refers to this program or to its
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41 predecessors "Era", "Epoch", and "Lucid Emacs". The predecessor
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42 of all these program is called "Emacs 18". When no particular
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43 version is implied, "Emacs" will be used.
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44
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45
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46 * Using Outline Mode
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47 ====================
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48
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49 This file is in outline mode, a major mode for viewing (or editing)
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50 outlines. It allows you to make parts of the text temporarily invisible so
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51 that you can see just the overall structure of the outline.
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52
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53 There are two ways of using outline mode: with keys or with menus. Using
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54 outline mode with menus is the simplest and is just as effective as using
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55 keystrokes. There are menus for outline mode on the menubar as well as in
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56 popup menus activated by pressing mouse button 3.
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57
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58 Try the following to help you read this file.
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59
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60 C-c C-q This hides everything but the very top level headings
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61 You can then move to an interesting section
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62 C-c TAB This shows subheadings (if any) of current heading.
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63 C-c C-s Show _all_ the text and headings under current heading
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64 C-c C-d Hide _all_ the text and headings under current heading
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65
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66 It's then easy to navigate through the file alternating between
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67 showing, C-C C-s, and hiding, C-c C-d, the text. Also, use the "Show"
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68 and "Hide" menus displayed to get access to the same commands.
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69
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70 You may at any time press `C-h m' to get a listing of the outline mode key
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71 bindings.
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72
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73 * XEmacs Release Notes
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74 ======================
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75
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76 ** Major Differences Between 19.15 and 19.16
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77 ============================================
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78
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79 Many bugs have been fixed. XEmacs 19.16 is a bug-fix release only. No
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80 new features have been added.
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81
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82 -- shell-command did not respect its output-buffer argument.
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83
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84 -- When using CVS in conjunction with frame-icon, an error
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85 would occur when a frame was iconified.
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86
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87 -- dired did not properly protect its data structures during
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88 garbage collection.
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89
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90 -- y-or-n-p-minibuf could crash XEmacs 19.15.
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91
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92 -- overlay-lists did not always return a pair of lists.
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93
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94 -- Starting with the -nw option did not prevent XEmacs 19.15 from
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95 attempting to connect to a tooltalk server.
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96
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97 -- XEmacs 19.15 could not be built on a DUNIX4.0 system.
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98
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99 -- appt.el did not respect the user's hooks.
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100
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101 -- outline-mode did not work in a tty-only XEmacs 19.15.
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102
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103 -- MD5 checksum generation did not work on a 64-bit machine.
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104
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105 -- XEmacs 19.15 ignored the user's mail path.
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106
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107 -- The rcompile package checked for ange-ftp instead of efs.
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108
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109 -- vc-directory did not work.
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110
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111 -- Sometimes clicking on a modeline did not advance to the
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112 next or previous buffer as it should have.
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113
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114 -- The variable enable-local-variables was sometimes ignored.
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115
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116 -- pending-del did not respect the user's hooks.
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117
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118 -- CRiSP mode was synchronized with FSF emacs.
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119
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120 -- The performance of font-lock was improved.
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121
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122 -- There were numerous holes in the garbage collection.
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123
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124 -- There were 2 minor bugs with using XEmacs 19.15 on a tty.
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125
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126 -- XEmacs 19.15 ignored certain dead_key events.
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127
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128 -- XEmacs 19.15 had minor fontification problems with java.
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129
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130 -- mark-pop did not always restore the mark properly.
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131
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132 -- smtpmail.el had a couple of minor bugs.
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133
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134 -- telnet-mode did not always respond to the telnet prompt.
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135
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136 -- gomoku was broken in XEmacs 19.15.
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137
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138 -- recover-all files did not work in XEmacs 19.15.
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139
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140 -- transient-mark-mode and skeleton.el did not work together.
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141
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142 -- Footnotes were not properly formatted in info.
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143
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144 -- Configuration of XEmacs 19.15 did not work on Sequent
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145 computers, because they do not have a working version of alloca.
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146
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147 -- In XEmacs 19.15 it was impossible to compile with Lucid
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148 scrollbars without Motif.
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149
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150 -- XEmacs 19.15 would erroneously report an internal error on
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151 certain types of minibuffer input.
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152
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153 -- When using virtual screens with your X server, sometimes
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154 iconify-frame would cause XEmacs 19.15 to lose one of the frames.
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155
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156 -- server-kill-buffer always returned nil.
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157
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158 -- The :filter keyword on a menubar could crash XEmacs 19.15.
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159
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160 -- psgml-mode did not respect the user's hooks.
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161
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162 -- Many bugs in efs mode were fixed.
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163
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164 -- sh-script.el could hang XEmacs.
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165
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166 -- Options could not be saved after fonts were changed in
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167 XEmacs 19.15.
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168
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169 -- read-from-string could not read "1.".
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170
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171 -- dired was confused about where chown lives on Linux.
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172
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173 -- Edebug did not work on floating point numbers.
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174
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175 -- first-change-hook saved the wrong buffer, so unwinding the
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176 stack could result in the wrong buffer's being restored.
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177
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178 -- pcl-cvs was incompatible with live-icon.
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179
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180 -- save-buffer deactivated the zmacs region.
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181
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182 -- When running a sub-process, if the standard error could
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183 not be opened, the error was reported incorectly.
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184
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185 -- shell-command-on-region had a bogus test for the active
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186 region.
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187
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188 -- get-frame-for-buffer ignored relevant properties.
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189
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190 -- make-database did not correctly expand its filename
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191 argument.
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192
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193 -- A few minor improvements were made to the optimizer in the
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194 byte-compiler.
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195
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196 -- kill-region could get confused when the beginning of the
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197 region was after the end of the region.
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198
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199 -- movemail was upgraded to the same version which shipped
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200 with XEmacs 20.2; this version understands Linux file locking.
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201
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202 -- The regexp cache size was too small.
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203
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204 -- The "save as" dialog was buggy.
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205
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206 -- Minor bugs in sendmail mode.
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207
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208 -- tm did not understand the png image format.
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209
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210 -- set-text-properties only removed the first text property.
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211
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212 -- add-log.el has been upgraded to the version supported by
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213 FSF emacs 20.1.
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214
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215 -- When tags-loop-continue was called inappropriately, the
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216 wrong error message resulted.
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217
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218 -- Frame creation was buggy, and could crash XEmacs.
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219
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220 -- PNG support did not work on Linux.
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221
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222 -- Asynchronous process output did not always work.
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223
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224 -- x-compose.el did not support the degree sign or the
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225 grave keysym.
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226
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227 -- mh-invisible-headers did not work.
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228
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229 -- Creating a tty frame could crash XEmacs 19.15.
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230
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231 -- detach-extent could crash XEmacs.
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232
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233 -- The minibuffer could get the read-only attribute.
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234
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235 -- When the mouse was in the right side of the frame, its
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236 position could be reported incorrectly.
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237
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238 -- lib-complete didn't work with compressed files.
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239
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240 -- getloadavg.c was brought into sync with the XEmacs 20.2
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241 version.
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242
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243 ** Major Differences Between 19.14 and 19.15
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244 ============================================
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246 Many bugs have been fixed. An effort has been made to eradicate all
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247 XEmacs crashes, although we are not quite done yet. The overall
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248 quality of XEmacs should be higher than any previous release. XEmacs
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249 now compiles with nary a warning with some compilers.
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250
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251 User visible changes:
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252
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253 -- EFS replaces ange-ftp for remote file manipulation capability.
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254
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255 -- TM (Tools for Mime) now comes with XEmacs. This provides MIME
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256 (Multi-purpose Internet Multi-media Extensions?) support for Mail
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257 and News. The primary author is Morioka Tomohiko.
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258
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259 -- There is a new way to customize faces and (some) variables.
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260 Try it with `M-x customize RET', or from the Options->Customize menu.
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261 Documented in <URL:info:custom>.
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262
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263 -- The AUC TeX environment for editing and running TeX is now bundled.
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264 (Per Abrahamsen.)
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265 Enable with (require 'tex-site) in your .emacs file.
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266 Documented in <URL:info:auctex>.
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267
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268 -- New user option `init-face-from-resources'.
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269 If you don't set faces with X resources, you can speed up the
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270 initialization of new faces by setting this to nil.
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271
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272 -- `column.el' removed, use `column-number-mode' instead.
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273
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274 -- Command line processing should work much better now - no more order
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275 dependencies.
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276
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277 -- html mode now defaults to using HTML-3.2
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278
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279 -- VM now has a native MIME mode
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280
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281 -- The traditional time.el package now has optional modeline graphics
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282
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283 -- The XEmacs Logo has been changed courtesy of Jens Lautenbacher
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284
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285 -- Default background changed to gray80
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286
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287 -- The XEmacs build procedure has been changed to make it easier than
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288 ever to include new packages to be dumped with the binary
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289
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290 -- cc-mode is no longer auto-loaded. (require 'cc-mode) is now needed
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291 before you customize cc-mode in your .emacs.
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292
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293 -- blink-cursor-mode is somewhat more useable now that the cursor
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294 stops blinking during keyboard activity.
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295
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296 -- Dired is now part of efs and went from version 6.X to 7.9.
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297 Keybindings have been synced with FSF Emacs, there are more menus and
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298 items in menus are sometimes grouped differently. Any personnal
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299 customization to dired will probably have to be checked.
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300
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301 If you are a 19.14 user and use its dired a lot, expect to get mad at
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302 'c', 'r' and '^' keybindings."
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303
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304
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305 ** New Packages
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306 ------------
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307
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308 Noteworthy new packages:
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309 redo
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310 igrep
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311 uniquify
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312 auctex
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313
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314
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315 -- Many new packages have been added:
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316 *** auctex (Per Abrahamsen)
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317 *** customize (Per Abrahamsen))
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318 *** m4-mode 1.8 (Andrew Csillag)
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319 *** crisp.el - crisp/brief emulation (Gary D. Foster)
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320 Minor mode emulation for Borland's Brief/Crisp editor
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321 *** Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el has been ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva
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322 *** psgml-1.01 (Lennart Staflin, James Clark)
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323 *** python-mode.el 2.90 (Barry Warsaw)
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324 *** vrml-mode.el (Ben Wing)
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325 *** enriched.el, face-menu.el (Boris Goldowsky, Michael Sperber)
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326 *** sh-script.el (Daniel Pfeiffer)
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327 *** decipher.el (Christopher J. Madsen)
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328 *** mic-paren.el (Mikael Sjödin)
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329 *** xrdb-mode.el 1.21 (Barry Warsaw)
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330 *** redo.el 1.01 (Kyle Jones)
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331 *** edmacro.el (ported by Hrvoje Niksic)
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332 *** verilog-mode.el (Michael McNamara)
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333 *** webjump.el-1.4 (Neil W. Van Dyke)
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334 *** overlay.el (Joseph Nuspl support for Emacs overlay API)
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335 *** browse-cltl2.el 1.1 (Holger Schauer)
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336 *** mine.el 1.17 (Jacques Duthen)
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337 *** igrep.el 2.56 (Kevin Rodgers)
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338 *** speedbar.el (Eric Ludlam)
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339 *** frame-icon.el (Michael Lamoureux)
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340 *** winmgr-mode.el (David Konerding, Stefan Strobel & Barry Warsaw)
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341 *** whitespace-mode.el (Heiko Muenkel)
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342 *** detached-minibuf.el (Alvin Shelton)
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343
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344 ** Updated Packages
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345 ------------
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346
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347 Most packages have been updated to the latest available versions.
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348 (thanks go to countless maintainers):
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349
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350 *** ediff 2.64 (Michael Kifer)
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351 *** Gnus Gnus 5.4.36 (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
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352
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353 **** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
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354
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355 **** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
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356 Gnus.
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357
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358 **** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
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359 `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
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360
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361 **** Article washing status can be displayed in the
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362 article mode line.
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363
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364 **** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
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365
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366 **** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
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367
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368 (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
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369
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370 **** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
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371 are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
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372 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
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373
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374 **** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
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375
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376 **** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
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377
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378 **** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
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379 See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
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380
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381 **** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
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382 Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
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383 used to pick articles.
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384
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385 **** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
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386 another have been added.
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387
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388 `M-x gnus-change-server'
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389
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390 **** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
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391 generating lines in buffers.
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392
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393 **** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
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394 `M-C-_'.
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395
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396 **** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
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397
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398 **** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
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399
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400 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
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401
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402 **** Scores can be decayed.
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403
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404 (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
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405
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406 **** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
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407 Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
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408
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409 **** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
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410 the native server.
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411
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412 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
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413
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414 **** A new command for reading collections of documents
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415 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
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416
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417 **** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
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418
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419 **** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
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420 even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
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421
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422 **** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
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423 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
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424
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425 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
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426 a group.
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427
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428 **** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
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429 sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
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430
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431 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
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432
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433 **** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
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434
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435 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
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436
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437 **** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
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438
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439 Use the `Y c' command.
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440
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441 **** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
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442
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443 **** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
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444
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445 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
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446
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447 **** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
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448 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
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449
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450 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
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451
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452 **** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
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453 *** w3 3.0.71 (Bill Perry)
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454 - Major upgrade to Emacs/W3, including
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455 - Much fuller stylesheet support
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456 - Tables support
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457 - Frames support
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458 - better asynchronous downloads
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459 - now uses the widget library for consistent look of form elements
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460 - Much much much faster
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461 *** ilisp 5.8 (Chris McConnell, Ivan Vasquez, Marco Antoniotti, Rick
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462 Campbell)
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463 *** VM 6.22 (Kyle Jones)
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464 *** etags 11.78 (Francesco Potorti`)
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465 *** ksh-mode.el 2.9
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466 *** vhdl-mode.el 2.73 (Rod Whitby)
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467 *** id-select.el 1.4.5 (Bob Weiner)
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468 *** EDT/TPU emulation modes should work now for the first time.
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469 *** viper 2.93 (Michael Kifer) is now the `official' vi emulator for XEmacs.
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470 *** big-menubar should work much better now.
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471 *** mode-motion+.el 3.16
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472 *** backup-dir 2.0 (Greg Klanderman)
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473 *** ps-print.el-3.05 (Jacques Duthen Prestataire)
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474 *** lazy-lock-1.16 (Simon Marshall)
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475 *** fast-lock.el 3.10.2 (Simon Marshall)
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476 *** reporter 3.3 (Barry Warsaw)
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477 *** hm--html-menus 5.4 (Heiko Muenkel)
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478 *** cc-mode 4.387 (Barry Warsaw)
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479 *** elp 2.37 (Barry Warsaw)
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480 *** itimer.el-1.05 (Kyle Jones)
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481 *** floating-toolbar.el-1.02 (Kyle Jones)
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482 *** balloon-help.el-1.05 (Kyle Jones)
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483 *** hyperbole-4.023 (Bob Weiner)
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484 *** cperl-mode-1.31+
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485 *** OO-Browser 2.10 (Bob Weiner)
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486
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487 ** Changes at Lisp level
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488 ------------
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489
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490 -- New `widget' library for inserting UI components in buffers.
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491 Documented in <URL:info:widget>.
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492
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493 -- New `custom' library for declaring user options and faces.
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494 Documented in <URL:info:custom>.
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495
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496 -- New function `make-empty-face'.
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497 Like `make-face', but doesn't query the resource database.
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498
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499 -- New function x-keysym-on-keyboard-p helps determine keyboard
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500 characteristics for key rebinding:
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501
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502 x-keysym-on-keyboard-p: (KEYSYM &optional DEVICE)
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503 -- a built-in function.
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504 Return true if KEYSYM names a key on the keyboard of DEVICE.
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505 More precisely, return true if pressing a physical key
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506 on the keyboard of DEVICE without any modifier keys generates KEYSYM.
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507 Valid keysyms are listed in the files /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h and in
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508 /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or whatever the equivalents are on your system.
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509
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510 -- Usage of keysyms of the form kp_0 is deprecated and one should use
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511 the Emacs compatible kp-0 instead.
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512
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513
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514 -- preceding-char and following-char have been obsoleted. Use the
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515 much safer and correct functions char-after and char-before instead.
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516
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517 -- Many symbols present for compatibility with GNU Emacs no longer
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518 generate bytecompiler warning messages
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519
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520 -- Installed info files are now compressed (support courtesy of Joseph J Nuspl)
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521
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522 -- (load-average) works on Solaris, even if you're not root. Thanks to
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523 Hrvoje Niksic.
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524
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525 -- OffiX drag-and-drop support added
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526
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527 -- lots of syncing with 19.34 elisp files, most by Steven Baur
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528
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529 -- M-: (eval-expression) is now enabled by default since it is much
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530 more difficult to type.
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531
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532 -- new variables:
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533 signal-error-on-buffer-boundary
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534
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535
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536 * Future Plans for XEmacs
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537 ==========================
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538
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539 This is the end of the line for XEmacs v19. No new development is planned
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540 on this source tree. XEmacs 20.1 will contain the functionality in 19.15,
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541 and development will continue with XEmacs 20.2. The major new `feature'
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542 planned in 20.2 will be the introduction of separable packages and the
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543 capability to download and use an XEmacs lite distribution.
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544
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545 * The History of XEmacs
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546 =======================
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547
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548 This product is an extension of GNU Emacs, previously known to some as
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549 "Lucid Emacs" or "ERA". It was initially based on an early version of Emacs
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550 Version 19 from the Free Software Foundation and has since been kept
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551 up-to-date with recent versions of that product. It stems from a
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552 collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with SunSoft DevPro (a division of Sun
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553 Microsystems, Inc.; formerly called SunPro) and the University of Illinois.
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554
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555 NOTE: Lucid, Inc. is currently out of business but development on XEmacs
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556 continues strong. Recently, Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering have
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557 both contributed significantly to the development of XEmacs.
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558
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559
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560 * A Long List of Packages
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561 =======================
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562
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|
563 This section gives a detailed list of packages included with XEmacs.
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564 It's long! Of particular interest are: games, gnus, modes, packages,
|
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|
565 and utils.
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566
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|
567 ** auctex - Super TeX
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|
|
568 *** auctex/auc-old.el
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569 This file contains an alternative keymapping, compatible with
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570 older versions of AUC TeX. You are strongly suggested to try the
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571 new keyboard layout, as we would like this file to go away
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572 eventually.
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|
573 *** auctex/bib-cite.el
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|
574 Commentary:
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575
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|
576 This package is used in various TeX modes to display or edit references
|
|
|
577 associated with \cite commands, or matching \ref and \label commands.
|
|
|
578 *** auctex/font-latex.el
|
|
|
579 Commentary:
|
|
|
580 *** auctex/style/german.el
|
|
|
581 Commentary:
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|
|
582
|
|
|
583 `german.sty' use `"' to give next character an umlaut.
|
|
|
584 *** auctex/style/harvard.el
|
|
|
585 Commentary:
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|
|
586
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|
|
587 Harvard citation style is from Peter Williams available on the CTAN
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|
|
588 servers
|
|
|
589 *** auctex/style/plfonts.el
|
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|
590 Commentary:
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|
591
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|
|
592 `plfonts.sty' use `"' to make next character Polish.
|
|
|
593 `plfonts.sty' <C> L. Holenderski, IIUW, lhol@mimuw.edu.pl
|
|
|
594 *** auctex/style/plhb.el
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|
595 Commentary:
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|
596
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|
597 `plhb.sty' use `"' to make next character Polish.
|
|
|
598 `plhb.sty' <C> J. S. Bie\'n, IIUW, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl
|
|
|
599
|
|
|
600
|
|
|
601 ** bytecomp - Byte compile Emacs Lisp files
|
|
|
602 *** bytecomp/byte-optimize.el
|
|
|
603 Commentary:
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|
604
|
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|
605 ========================================================================
|
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|
606 "No matter how hard you try, you can't make a racehorse out of a pig.
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|
|
607 You can, however, make a faster pig."
|
|
|
608
|
|
|
609 Or, to put it another way, the emacs byte compiler is a VW Bug. This code
|
|
|
610 makes it be a VW Bug with fuel injection and a turbocharger... You're
|
|
|
611 still not going to make it go faster than 70 mph, but it might be easier
|
|
|
612 to get it there.
|
|
|
613
|
|
|
614 *** bytecomp/bytecomp-runtime.el
|
|
|
615 Commentary:
|
|
|
616
|
|
|
617 interface to selectively inlining functions.
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|
|
618 This only happens when source-code optimization is turned on.
|
|
|
619 *** bytecomp/bytecomp.el
|
|
|
620 Commentary:
|
|
|
621
|
|
|
622 The Emacs Lisp byte compiler. This crunches lisp source into a sort
|
|
|
623 of p-code which takes up less space and can be interpreted faster.
|
|
|
624 The user entry points are byte-compile-file and byte-recompile-directory.
|
|
|
625 *** bytecomp/disass.el
|
|
|
626 Commentary:
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|
|
627
|
|
|
628 The single entry point, `disassemble', disassembles a code object generated
|
|
|
629 by the Emacs Lisp byte-compiler. This doesn't invert the compilation
|
|
|
630 operation, not by a long shot, but it's useful for debugging.
|
|
|
631
|
|
|
632 ** calendar - Calendars, diaries and appointments
|
|
|
633 *** calendar/calendar.el
|
|
|
634 Commentary:
|
|
|
635
|
|
|
636 This collection of functions implements a calendar window. It
|
|
|
637 generates a calendar for the current month, together with the previous
|
|
|
638 and coming months, or for any other three-month period. The calendar
|
|
|
639 can be scrolled forward and backward in the window to show months in
|
|
|
640 the past or future; the cursor can move forward and backward by days,
|
|
|
641 weeks, or months, making it possible, for instance, to jump to the
|
|
|
642 date a specified number of days, weeks, or months from the date under
|
|
|
643 the cursor. The user can display a list of holidays and other notable
|
|
|
644 days for the period shown; the notable days can be marked on the
|
|
|
645 calendar, if desired. The user can also specify that dates having
|
|
|
646 corresponding diary entries (in a file that the user specifies) be
|
|
|
647 marked; the diary entries for any date can be viewed in a separate
|
|
|
648 window. The diary and the notable days can be viewed independently of
|
|
|
649 the calendar. Dates can be translated from the (usual) Gregorian
|
|
|
650 calendar to the day of the year/days remaining in year, to the ISO
|
|
|
651 commercial calendar, to the Julian (old style) calendar, to the Hebrew
|
|
|
652 calendar, to the Islamic calendar, to the French Revolutionary calendar,
|
|
|
653 to the Mayan calendar, and to the astronomical (Julian) day number.
|
|
|
654 When floating point is available, times of sunrise/sunset can be displayed,
|
|
|
655 as can the phases of the moon. Appointment notification for diary entries
|
|
|
656 is available.
|
|
|
657 *** calendar/cal-dst.el
|
|
|
658 Commentary:
|
|
|
659
|
|
|
660 This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
|
|
|
661 holiday.el that deal with daylight savings time.
|
|
|
662 *** calendar/cal-french.el
|
|
|
663 Commentary:
|
|
|
664
|
|
|
665 This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
|
|
|
666 diary.el that deal with the French Revolutionary calendar.
|
|
|
667 *** calendar/cal-mayan.el
|
|
|
668 Commentary:
|
|
|
669
|
|
|
670 This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
|
|
|
671 diary.el that deal with the Mayan calendar. It was written jointly by
|
|
|
672 *** calendar/cal-x.el
|
|
|
673 Commentary:
|
|
|
674
|
|
|
675 This collection of functions implements dedicated frames in x-windows for
|
|
|
676 calendar.el.
|
|
|
677 *** calendar/cal-xemacs.el
|
|
|
678 Commentary:
|
|
|
679
|
|
|
680 This collection of functions implements menu bar and popup menu support for
|
|
|
681 calendar.el.
|
|
|
682 *** calendar/diary-ins.el
|
|
|
683 Commentary:
|
|
|
684
|
|
|
685 This collection of functions implements the diary insertion features as
|
|
|
686 described in calendar.el.
|
|
|
687 *** calendar/solar.el
|
|
|
688 Commentary:
|
|
|
689
|
|
|
690 This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el,
|
|
|
691 diary.el, and holiday.el that deal with times of day, sunrise/sunset, and
|
|
|
692 eqinoxes/solstices.
|
|
|
693
|
|
|
694 ** cl - Common Lisp compatibility with Emacs Lisp
|
|
|
695 *** cl/cl-compat.el
|
|
|
696 Commentary:
|
|
|
697
|
|
|
698 These are extensions to Emacs Lisp that provide a degree of
|
|
|
699 Common Lisp compatibility, beyond what is already built-in
|
|
|
700 in Emacs Lisp.
|
|
|
701
|
|
|
702 ** comint - For running shells, telnet, rsh, gdb, dbx under Emacs
|
|
|
703 *** comint/comint-xemacs.el
|
|
|
704 Commentary:
|
|
|
705
|
|
|
706 Declare customizable faces for comint outside the main code so it can
|
|
|
707 be dumped with XEmacs.
|
|
|
708 *** comint/comint.el
|
|
|
709 Commentary:
|
|
|
710
|
|
|
711 This file defines a general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package
|
|
|
712 (comint mode). The idea is that you can build specific process-in-a-buffer
|
|
|
713 modes on top of comint mode -- e.g., lisp, shell, scheme, T, soar, ....
|
|
|
714 This way, all these specific packages share a common base functionality,
|
|
|
715 and a common set of bindings, which makes them easier to use (and
|
|
|
716 saves code, implementation time, etc., etc.).
|
|
|
717
|
|
|
718 Several packages are already defined using comint mode:
|
|
|
719 - shell.el defines a shell-in-a-buffer mode.
|
|
|
720 - cmulisp.el defines a simple lisp-in-a-buffer mode.
|
|
|
721
|
|
|
722 - The file cmuscheme.el defines a scheme-in-a-buffer mode.
|
|
|
723 - The file tea.el tunes scheme and inferior-scheme modes for T.
|
|
|
724 - The file soar.el tunes lisp and inferior-lisp modes for Soar.
|
|
|
725 - cmutex.el defines tex and latex modes that invoke tex, latex, bibtex,
|
|
|
726 previewers, and printers from within emacs.
|
|
|
727 - background.el allows csh-like job control inside emacs.
|
|
|
728 *** comint/gdb.el
|
|
|
729 Commentary:
|
|
|
730
|
|
|
731 A facility is provided for the simultaneous display of the source code
|
|
|
732 in one window, while using gdb to step through a function in the
|
|
|
733 other. A small arrow in the source window, indicates the current
|
|
|
734 line.
|
|
|
735 *** comint/gud.el
|
|
|
736 Commentary:
|
|
|
737 *** comint/history.el
|
|
|
738 Commentary:
|
|
|
739
|
|
|
740 suggested generic history stuff -- tale
|
|
|
741
|
|
|
742 This is intended to provided easy access to a list of elements
|
|
|
743 being kept as a history ring.
|
|
|
744 *** comint/inf-lisp.el
|
|
|
745 Commentary:
|
|
|
746
|
|
|
747 This file defines a a lisp-in-a-buffer package (inferior-lisp
|
|
|
748 mode) built on top of comint mode. This version is more
|
|
|
749 featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version. The
|
|
|
750 key bindings are also more compatible with the bindings of Hemlock
|
|
|
751 and Zwei (the Lisp Machine emacs).
|
|
|
752 *** comint/kermit.el
|
|
|
753 Commentary:
|
|
|
754
|
|
|
755 I'm not sure, but I think somebody asked about running kermit under shell
|
|
|
756 mode a while ago. Anyway, here is some code that I find useful. The result
|
|
|
757 is that I can log onto machines with primitive operating systems (VMS and
|
|
|
758 ATT system V :-), and still have the features of shell-mode available for
|
|
|
759 command history, etc. It's also handy to be able to run a file transfer in
|
|
|
760 an emacs window. The transfer is in the "background", but you can also
|
|
|
761 monitor or stop it easily.
|
|
|
762 *** comint/rlogin.el
|
|
|
763 Commentary:
|
|
|
764
|
|
|
765 Support for remote logins using `rlogin'.
|
|
|
766 This program is layered on top of shell.el; the code here only accounts
|
|
|
767 for the variations needed to handle a remote process, e.g. directory
|
|
|
768 tracking and the sending of some special characters.
|
|
|
769 *** comint/shell.el
|
|
|
770 Commentary:
|
|
|
771
|
|
|
772 This file defines a a shell-in-a-buffer package (shell mode) built
|
|
|
773 on top of comint mode. This is actually cmushell with things
|
|
|
774 renamed to replace its counterpart in Emacs 18. cmushell is more
|
|
|
775 featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version.
|
|
|
776 *** comint/telnet.el
|
|
|
777 Commentary:
|
|
|
778
|
|
|
779 This mode is intended to be used for telnet or rsh to a remode host;
|
|
|
780 `telnet' and `rsh' are the two entry points. Multiple telnet or rsh
|
|
|
781 sessions are supported.
|
|
|
782
|
|
|
783 ** custom - Allow's user to customize Emacs
|
|
|
784 *** custom/custom.el
|
|
|
785 Commentary:
|
|
|
786
|
|
|
787 This file only contain the code needed to declare and initialize
|
|
|
788 user options. The code to customize options is autoloaded from
|
|
|
789 `cus-edit.el'.
|
|
|
790
|
|
|
791 The code implementing face declarations is in `cus-face.el'
|
|
|
792
|
|
|
793 ** edebug - Emacs Lisp debugger
|
|
|
794 *** edebug/cl-read.el
|
|
|
795 Commentary:
|
|
|
796
|
|
|
797 Please send bugs and comments to the author.
|
|
|
798
|
|
|
799 This package replaces the standard Emacs Lisp reader (implemented
|
|
|
800 as a set of built-in Lisp function in C) by a flexible and
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801 customizable Common Lisp like one (implemented entirely in Emacs
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802 Lisp). During reading of Emacs Lisp source files, it is about 40%
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803 slower than the built-in reader, but there is no difference in
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804 loading byte compiled files - they dont contain any syntactic sugar
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|
805 and are loaded with the built in subroutine `load'.
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806
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807 ** ediff - Compare and merge files with graphical difference display
|
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808 *** ediff/ediff.el
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809 Commentary:
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810
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811 Never read that diff output again!
|
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|
812 Apply patch interactively!
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|
813 Merge with ease!
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814
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815 This package provides a convenient way of simultaneous browsing through
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816 the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers. The
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817 files being compared, file-A, file-B, and file-C (if applicable) are
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818 shown in separate windows (side by side, one above the another, or in
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819 separate frames), and the differences are highlighted as you step
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|
820 through them. You can also copy difference regions from one buffer to
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|
821 another (and recover old differences if you change your mind).
|
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|
822
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|
823 Ediff also supports merging operations on files and buffers, including
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|
824 merging using ancestor versions. Both comparison and merging operations can
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825 be performed on directories, i.e., by pairwise comparison of files in those
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826 directories.
|
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827
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|
828 ** efs - Remote file access (replaces ange-ftp)
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829 See online manual.
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830
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|
831 ** electric - The "electric" commands; these implement temporary
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832 windows for help, list-buffers, etc.
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833
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834 *** electric/ehelp.el
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835 Commentary:
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836
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837 This package provides a pre-packaged `Electric Help Mode' for
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838 browsing on-line help screens. There is one entry point,
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|
839 `with-electric-help'; all you have to give it is a no-argument
|
|
|
840 function that generates the actual text of the help into the current
|
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|
841 buffer.
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842
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843 ** emulators - Various emulations: mocklisp, teco, TPU/EDT, WordStar
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844 *** emulators/mlconvert.el
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845 Commentary:
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846
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847 This package converts Mocklisp code written under a Gosling or UniPress
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848 Emacs for use with GNU Emacs. The translated code will require runtime
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|
849 support from the mlsupport.el equivalent.
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850 *** emulators/mlsupport.el
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851 Commentary:
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852
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853 This package provides equivalents of certain primitives from Gosling
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854 Emacs (including the commercial UniPress versions). These have an
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855 ml- prefix to distinguish them from native GNU Emacs functions with
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856 similar names. The package mlconvert.el translates Mocklisp code
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857 to use these names.
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|
858 *** emulators/teco.el
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859 Commentary:
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860
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861 This code has been tested some, but no doubt contains a zillion bugs.
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862 You have been warned.
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863
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|
864 Written by Dale R. Worley based on a C implementation by Matt Fichtenbaum.
|
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865 Please send comments, bug fixes, enhancements, etc. to drw@math.mit.edu.
|
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|
866 *** emulators/tpu-edt.el
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867 Commentary:
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868
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869 %% TPU-edt -- Emacs emulating TPU emulating EDT
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870
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|
|
871 %% Introduction
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|
872
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|
873 TPU-edt emulates the popular DEC VMS editor EDT (actually, it emulates
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|
874 DEC TPU's EDT emulation, hence the name TPU-edt).
|
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|
875 *** emulators/tpu-extras.el
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876 Commentary:
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877
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|
878 Use the functions defined here to customize TPU-edt to your tastes by
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|
879 setting scroll margins and/or turning on free cursor mode. Here's an
|
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880 example for your .emacs file.
|
|
|
881 *** emulators/ws-mode.el
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882 Commentary:
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883
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884 This emulates WordStar, with a major mode.
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885
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|
886 ** energize - Interface to now-defunct Lucid's C/C++ integrated
|
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|
887 environment XEmacs (nee Lucid Emacs) saw birth explicitly to serve
|
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|
888 Energize.
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889
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890 ** eos - SPARCworks
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891
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|
892 ** eterm - Full terminal emulation under Emacs
|
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|
893 *** eterm/term.el
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|
894 Commentary:
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895
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|
896 This file defines a general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package
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|
897 (term mode). The idea is that you can build specific process-in-a-buffer
|
|
|
898 modes on top of term mode -- e.g., lisp, shell, scheme, T, soar, ....
|
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|
899 This way, all these specific packages share a common base functionality,
|
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|
900 and a common set of bindings, which makes them easier to use (and
|
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|
901 saves code, implementation time, etc., etc.).
|
|
|
902 *** eterm/tgud.el
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|
903 Commentary:
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904
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|
905 The ancestral gdb.el was by W. Schelter <wfs@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
|
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|
906 It was later rewritten by rms. Some ideas were due to Masanobu.
|
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|
907 Grand Unification (sdb/dbx support) by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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|
908 The overloading code was then rewritten by Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@cen.com>,
|
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|
909 who also hacked the mode to use comint.el. Shane Hartman <shane@spr.com>
|
|
|
910 added support for xdb (HPUX debugger). Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
|
|
|
911 wrote the GDB command completion code. Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
|
|
|
912 added the IRIX kluge and re-implemented the Mips-ish variant.
|
|
|
913 Then hacked by Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> to use term.el.
|
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|
914 *** eterm/tshell.el
|
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|
915 Commentary:
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916
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|
917 This file defines a a shell-in-a-buffer package (shell mode) built
|
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|
918 on top of term mode. This is actually cmushell with things
|
|
|
919 renamed to replace its counterpart in Emacs 18. cmushell is more
|
|
|
920 featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version.
|
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|
921
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|
922 ** games - blackbox, mines, decipher, doctor, ...
|
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|
923 *** games/blackbox.el
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|
924 Commentary:
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925
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|
926 The object of the game is to find four hidden balls by shooting rays
|
|
|
927 into the black box. There are four possibilities: 1) the ray will
|
|
|
928 pass thru the box undisturbed, 2) it will hit a ball and be absorbed,
|
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|
929 3) it will be deflected and exit the box, or 4) be deflected immediately,
|
|
|
930 not even being allowed entry into the box.
|
|
|
931 *** games/conx.el
|
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|
932 Commentary:
|
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|
933
|
|
|
934 conx.el: Yet Another Dissociator.
|
|
|
935
|
|
|
936 Select a buffer with a lot of text in it. Say M-x conx-buffer
|
|
|
937 or M-x conx-region. Repeat on as many other bodies of text as
|
|
|
938 you like.
|
|
|
939
|
|
|
940 M-x conx will use the word-frequency tree the above generated
|
|
|
941 to produce random sentences in a popped-up buffer. It will pause
|
|
|
942 at the end of each paragraph for two seconds; type ^G to stop it.
|
|
|
943 *** games/cookie1.el
|
|
|
944 Commentary:
|
|
|
945
|
|
|
946 Support for random cookie fetches from phrase files, used for such
|
|
|
947 critical applications as emulating Zippy the Pinhead and confounding
|
|
|
948 the NSA Trunk Trawler.
|
|
|
949 *** games/decipher.el
|
|
|
950 Commentary:
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|
951
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|
952 This package is designed to help you crack simple substitution
|
|
|
953 ciphers where one letter stands for another. It works for ciphers
|
|
|
954 with or without word divisions. (You must set the variable
|
|
|
955 decipher-ignore-spaces for ciphers without word divisions.)
|
|
|
956 *** games/dissociate.el
|
|
|
957 Commentary:
|
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|
958
|
|
|
959 The single entry point, `dissociated-press', applies a travesty
|
|
|
960 generator to the current buffer. The results can be quite amusing.
|
|
|
961 *** games/doctor.el
|
|
|
962 Commentary:
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|
963
|
|
|
964 The single entry point `doctor', simulates a Rogerian analyst using
|
|
|
965 phrase-production techniques similar to the classic ELIZA demonstration
|
|
|
966 of pseudo-AI.
|
|
|
967 *** games/flame.el
|
|
|
968 Commentary:
|
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|
969
|
|
|
970 "Flame" program. This has a chequered past.
|
|
|
971 *** games/gomoku.el
|
|
|
972 Gomoku is a game played between two players on a rectangular board. Each
|
|
|
973 player, in turn, marks a free square of its choice. The winner is the first
|
|
|
974 one to mark five contiguous squares in any direction (horizontally,
|
|
|
975 vertically or diagonally).
|
|
|
976
|
|
|
977 *** games/hanoi.el
|
|
|
978 Commentary:
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 Solves the Towers of Hanoi puzzle while-U-wait.
|
|
|
981
|
|
|
982 The puzzle: Start with N rings, decreasing in sizes from bottom to
|
|
|
983 top, stacked around a post. There are two other posts. Your mission,
|
|
|
984 should you choose to accept it, is to shift the pile, stacked in its
|
|
|
985 original order, to another post.
|
|
|
986 *** games/life.el
|
|
|
987 Commentary:
|
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|
988
|
|
|
989 A demonstrator for John Horton Conway's "Life" cellular automaton
|
|
|
990 in Emacs Lisp. Picks a random one of a set of interesting Life
|
|
|
991 patterns and evolves it according to the familiar rules.
|
|
|
992 *** games/mine.el
|
|
|
993 Commentary:
|
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|
994
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|
|
995 The object of this classical game is to locate the hidden mines.
|
|
|
996 To do this, you hit the squares on the game board that do not
|
|
|
997 contain mines, and you mark the squares that do contain mines.
|
|
|
998 *** games/mpuz.el
|
|
|
999 Commentary:
|
|
|
1000
|
|
|
1001 When this package is loaded, `M-x mpuz' generates a random multiplication
|
|
|
1002 puzzle. This is a multiplication example in which each digit has been
|
|
|
1003 consistently replaced with some letter. Your job is to reconstruct
|
|
|
1004 the original digits. Type `?' while the mode is active for detailed help.
|
|
|
1005 *** games/spook.el
|
|
|
1006 Commentary:
|
|
|
1007
|
|
|
1008 Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.
|
|
|
1009 A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help
|
|
|
1010 give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated
|
|
|
1011 keyword scanners.
|
|
|
1012 *** games/studly.el
|
|
|
1013 Commentary:
|
|
|
1014
|
|
|
1015 Functions to studlycapsify a region, word, or buffer. Possibly the
|
|
|
1016 esoteric significance of studlycapsification escapes you; that is,
|
|
|
1017 you suffer from autostudlycapsifibogotification. Too bad.
|
|
|
1018 *** games/yow.el
|
|
|
1019 Commentary:
|
|
|
1020
|
|
|
1021 Important pinheadery for GNU Emacs.
|
|
|
1022
|
|
|
1023 See cookie1.el for implementation. Note --- the `n' argument of yow
|
|
|
1024 from the 18.xx implementation is no longer; we only support *random*
|
|
|
1025 random access now.
|
|
|
1026
|
|
|
1027 ** gnus - The ultimate News and Mail reader
|
|
|
1028 See online manual
|
|
|
1029 *** gnus/gnus-audio.el
|
|
|
1030 Commentary:
|
|
|
1031 This file provides access to sound effects in Gnus.
|
|
|
1032 Prerelease: This file is partially stripped to support earcons.el
|
|
|
1033 You can safely ignore most of it until Red Gnus. **Evil Laugh**
|
|
|
1034 *** gnus/gnus-gl.el
|
|
|
1035 Commentary:
|
|
|
1036 *** gnus/gnus-undo.el
|
|
|
1037 Commentary:
|
|
|
1038
|
|
|
1039 This package allows arbitrary undoing in Gnus buffers. As all the
|
|
|
1040 Gnus buffers aren't very text-oriented (what is in the buffers is
|
|
|
1041 just some random representation of the actual data), normal Emacs
|
|
|
1042 undoing doesn't work at all for Gnus.
|
|
|
1043 *** gnus/mailheader.el
|
|
|
1044 Commentary:
|
|
|
1045
|
|
|
1046 This package provides an abstraction to RFC822-style messages, used in
|
|
|
1047 mail news, and some other systems. The simple syntactic rules for such
|
|
|
1048 headers, such as quoting and line folding, are routinely reimplemented
|
|
|
1049 in many individual packages. This package removes the need for this
|
|
|
1050 redundancy by representing message headers as association lists,
|
|
|
1051 offering functions to extract the set of headers from a message, to
|
|
|
1052 parse individual headers, to merge sets of headers, and to format a set
|
|
|
1053 of headers.
|
|
|
1054 *** gnus/message.el
|
|
|
1055 Commentary:
|
|
|
1056
|
|
|
1057 This mode provides mail-sending facilities from within Emacs. It
|
|
|
1058 consists mainly of large chunks of code from the sendmail.el,
|
|
|
1059 gnus-msg.el and rnewspost.el files.
|
|
|
1060 *** gnus/nnheader.el
|
|
|
1061 Commentary:
|
|
|
1062
|
|
|
1063 These macros may look very much like the ones in GNUS 4.1. They
|
|
|
1064 are, in a way, but you should note that the indices they use have
|
|
|
1065 been changed from the internal GNUS format to the NOV format. The
|
|
|
1066 makes it possible to read headers from XOVER much faster.
|
|
|
1067
|
|
|
1068 ** hm--html-menus - Menus and popups for writing/viewing html documents
|
|
|
1069
|
|
|
1070 ** hyperbole - Personal database
|
|
|
1071
|
|
|
1072 ** ilisp - A comint-based package for interacting with inferior
|
|
|
1073 lisp processes.
|
|
|
1074
|
|
|
1075
|
|
|
1076 ** iso - Implement various ISO character standards
|
|
|
1077 *** iso/iso-acc.el
|
|
|
1078 Commentary:
|
|
|
1079
|
|
|
1080 Function `iso-accents-mode' activates a minor mode in which
|
|
|
1081 typewriter "dead keys" are emulated. The purpose of this emulation
|
|
|
1082 is to provide a simple means for inserting accented characters
|
|
|
1083 according to the ISO-8859-1 character set.
|
|
|
1084 *** iso/iso-ascii.el
|
|
|
1085 Commentary:
|
|
|
1086
|
|
|
1087 This code sets up to display ISO 8859/1 characters on plain
|
|
|
1088 ASCII terminals. The display strings for the characters are
|
|
|
1089 more-or-less based on TeX.
|
|
|
1090 *** iso/iso-cvt.el
|
|
|
1091 Commentary:
|
|
|
1092
|
|
|
1093 This lisp code serves two purposes, both of which involve
|
|
|
1094 the translation of various conventions for representing European
|
|
|
1095 character sets to ISO 8859-1.
|
|
|
1096
|
|
|
1097 ** mailcrypt - Encrypting/decrypting of mail messages
|
|
|
1098
|
|
|
1099 ** mel - MIME encoding library (see also TM)
|
|
|
1100
|
|
|
1101 ** mh-e - Emacs interface to MH mail reader
|
|
|
1102 *** mh-e/mh-e.el
|
|
|
1103 Commentary:
|
|
|
1104
|
|
|
1105 mh-e is an Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
|
|
|
1106
|
|
|
1107 ** modes - How to edit files: Ada, asm, awk, bib, cperl, eiffel, ...
|
|
|
1108 *** modes/arc-mode.el
|
|
|
1109 Commentary:
|
|
|
1110
|
|
|
1111 NAMING: "arc" is short for "archive" and does not refer specifically
|
|
|
1112 to files whose name end in ".arc"
|
|
|
1113
|
|
|
1114 ARCHIVE TYPES: Currently only the archives below are handled, but the
|
|
|
1115 structure for handling just about anything is in place.
|
|
|
1116
|
|
|
1117 Arc Lzh Zip Zoo
|
|
|
1118 --------------------------------
|
|
|
1119 View listing Intern Intern Intern Intern
|
|
|
1120 Extract member Y Y Y Y
|
|
|
1121 Save changed member Y Y Y Y
|
|
|
1122 Add new member N N N N
|
|
|
1123 Delete member Y Y Y Y
|
|
|
1124 Rename member Y Y N N
|
|
|
1125 Chmod - Y Y -
|
|
|
1126 Chown - Y - -
|
|
|
1127 Chgrp - Y - -
|
|
|
1128 *** modes/asm-mode.el
|
|
|
1129 Commentary:
|
|
|
1130
|
|
|
1131 This minor mode is based on text mode. It defines a private abbrev table
|
|
|
1132 that can be used to save abbrevs for assembler mnemonics.
|
|
|
1133 *** modes/auto-show.el
|
|
|
1134 Commentary:
|
|
|
1135
|
|
|
1136 This file provides functions that
|
|
|
1137 automatically scroll the window horizontally when the point moves
|
|
|
1138 off the left or right side of the window.
|
|
|
1139 *** modes/awk-mode.el
|
|
|
1140 Commentary:
|
|
|
1141
|
|
|
1142 Sets up C-mode with support for awk-style #-comments and a lightly
|
|
|
1143 hacked syntax table.
|
|
|
1144 *** modes/bib-mode.el
|
|
|
1145 Commentary:
|
|
|
1146
|
|
|
1147 GNU Emacs code to help maintain databases compatible with (troff)
|
|
|
1148 refer and lookbib. The file bib-file should be set to your
|
|
|
1149 bibliography file. Keys are automagically inserted as you type,
|
|
|
1150 and appropriate keys are presented for various kinds of entries.
|
|
|
1151 *** modes/bibtex.el
|
|
|
1152 *** modes/cc-compat.el
|
|
|
1153 Commentary:
|
|
|
1154
|
|
|
1155 Boring old c-mode.el (BOCM) is confusion and brain melt. cc-mode.el
|
|
|
1156 is clarity of thought and purity of chi. If you are still unwilling
|
|
|
1157 to accept enlightenment, this might help, or it may prolong your
|
|
|
1158 agony.
|
|
|
1159 *** modes/cc-guess.el
|
|
|
1160 Commentary:
|
|
|
1161
|
|
|
1162 This file contains routines that help guess the cc-mode style in a
|
|
|
1163 particular region of C, C++, or Objective-C code. It is provided
|
|
|
1164 for example and experimentation only. It is not supported in
|
|
|
1165 anyway. Some folks have asked for a style guesser and the best way
|
|
|
1166 to show my thoughts on the subject is with this sample code. Feel
|
|
|
1167 free to improve upon it in anyway you'd like. Please send me the
|
|
|
1168 results. Note that style guessing is lossy!
|
|
|
1169 *** modes/cc-lobotomy.el
|
|
|
1170 Commentary:
|
|
|
1171
|
|
|
1172 Every effort has been made to improve the performance of
|
|
|
1173 cc-mode. However, due to the nature of the C, C++, and Objective-C
|
|
|
1174 language definitions, a trade-off is often required between
|
|
|
1175 accuracy of construct recognition and speed. I believe it is always
|
|
|
1176 best to be correct, and that the mode is currently fast enough for
|
|
|
1177 most normal usage. Others disagree. I have no intention of
|
|
|
1178 including these hacks in the main distribution. When cc-mode
|
|
|
1179 version 5 comes out, it will include a rewritten indentation engine
|
|
|
1180 so that performance will be greatly improved automatically. This
|
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1181 was not included in this release of version 4 so that Emacs 18
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1182 could still be supported. Note that this implies that cc-mode
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1183 version 5 will *not* work on Emacs 18!
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1184 *** modes/cc-mode.el
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1185 Commentary:
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1186
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1187 This package provides modes in GNU Emacs for editing C, C++,
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1188 Objective-C, and Java code. It is intended to be a replacement for
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1189 c-mode.el (a.k.a. BOCM -- Boring Old C-Mode), c++-mode.el,
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1190 cplus-md.el, and cplus-md1.el, all of which are in some way
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1191 ancestors of this file. A number of important improvements have
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1192 been made, briefly: complete K&R C, ANSI C, `ARM' C++, Objective-C,
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1193 and Java support with consistent indentation across all modes, more
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1194 intuitive indentation controlling variables, compatibility across
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1195 all known Emacsen, nice new features, and tons of bug fixes. This
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1196 package is called "CC Mode" to distinguish it from its ancestors,
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1197 but there is no cc-mode command. Usage and programming details are
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1198 contained in an accompanying texinfo manual.
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1199 *** modes/cl-indent.el
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1200 Commentary:
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1201
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1202 This package supplies a single entry point, common-lisp-indent-function,
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1203 which performs indentation in the preferred style for Common Lisp code.
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1204 *** modes/cperl-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1205 *** modes/eiffel3.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1206 *** modes/enriched.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1207 *** modes/executable.el
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1208 Commentary:
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1209
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1210 executable.el is used by certain major modes to insert a suitable
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1211 #! line at the beginning of the file, if the file does not already
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1212 have one.
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1213
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1214 *** modes/f90.el
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1215 Commentary:
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1216
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1217 Smart mode for editing F90 programs in FREE FORMAT.
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1218 Knows about continuation lines, named structured statements, and other
|
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1219 new features in F90 including HPF (High Performance Fortran) structures.
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1220 The basic feature is to provide an accurate indentation of F90 programs.
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1221 In addition, there are many more features like automatic matching of all
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1222 end statements, an auto-fill function to break long lines, a join-lines
|
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1223 function which joins continued lines etc etc.
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1224 To facilitate typing, a fairly complete list of abbreviations is provided.
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1225 For example, `i is short-hand for integer (if abbrev-mode is on).
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1226
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1227 *** modes/follow.el
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1228 Commentary:
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1229
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1230 `Follow mode' is a minor mode for Emacs 19 and XEmacs which
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1231 combines windows into one tall virtual window.
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1232
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1233 The feeling of a "virtual window" has been accomplished by the use
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1234 of two major techniques:
|
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1235
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1236 * The windows always displays adjacent sections of the buffer.
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1237 This means that whenever one window is moved, all the
|
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1238 others will follow. (Hence the name Follow Mode.)
|
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1239
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1240 * Should the point (cursor) end up outside a window, another
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|
1241 window displaying that point is selected, if possible. This
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1242 makes it possible to walk between windows using normal cursor
|
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|
1243 movement commands.
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|
1244 *** modes/fortran.el
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1245 Commentary:
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1246
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1247 Fortran mode has been upgraded and is now maintained by Stephen A. Wood
|
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1248 (saw@cebaf.gov). It now will use either fixed format continuation line
|
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|
1249 markers (character in 6th column), or tab format continuation line style
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1250 (digit after a TAB character.) A auto-fill mode has been added to
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|
1251 automatically wrap fortran lines that get too long.
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1252
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1253 We acknowledge many contributions and valuable suggestions by
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1254 Lawrence R. Dodd, Ralf Fassel, Ralph Finch, Stephen Gildea,
|
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1255 Dr. Anil Gokhale, Ulrich Mueller, Mark Neale, Eric Prestemon,
|
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1256 Gary Sabot and Richard Stallman.
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1257 *** modes/hideif.el
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1258 Commentary:
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1259
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1260 Hide-ifdef suppresses the display of code that the preprocessor wouldn't
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|
1261 pass through. The support of constant expressions in #if lines is
|
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|
1262 limited to identifiers, parens, and the operators: &&, ||, !, and
|
|
|
1263 "defined". Please extend this.
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|
|
1264 *** modes/hideshow.el
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1265 Commentary:
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1266
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|
1267 This file provides `hs-minor-mode'. When active, six commands:
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|
1268 hs-{hide,show}-{all,block}, hs-show-region and hs-minor-mode
|
|
|
1269 are available. They implement block hiding and showing. Blocks are
|
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|
1270 defined in mode-specific way. In c-mode or c++-mode, they are simply
|
|
|
1271 curly braces, while in lisp-ish modes they are parens. Multi-line
|
|
|
1272 comments (c-mode) can also be hidden. The command M-x hs-minor-mode
|
|
|
1273 toggles the minor mode or sets it (similar to outline minor mode).
|
|
|
1274 See documentation for each command for more info.
|
|
|
1275 *** modes/icon.el
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1276 Commentary:
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1277
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|
1278 A major mode for editing the Icon programming language.
|
|
|
1279 *** modes/ksh-mode.el
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1280
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1281
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|
1282 Description:
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|
1283 sh, ksh, and bash script editing commands for emacs.
|
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|
1284
|
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|
1285 This major mode assists shell script writers with indentation
|
|
|
1286 control and control structure construct matching in much the same
|
|
|
1287 fashion as other programming language modes. Invoke describe-mode
|
|
|
1288 for more information.
|
|
|
1289 *** modes/lisp-mnt.el
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|
1290 Commentary:
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|
1291
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|
1292 This minor mode adds some services to Emacs-Lisp editing mode.
|
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|
1293
|
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|
1294 First, it knows about the header conventions for library packages.
|
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|
1295 One entry point supports generating synopses from a library directory.
|
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|
1296 Another can be used to check for missing headers in library files.
|
|
|
1297 *** modes/lisp-mode.el
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|
1298 Commentary:
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|
1299
|
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|
1300 The base major mode for editing Lisp code (used also for Emacs Lisp).
|
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|
1301 This mode is documented in the Emacs manual
|
|
|
1302 *** modes/m4-mode.el
|
|
|
1303 Commentary:
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1304
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|
1305 A smart editing mode for m4 macro definitions. It seems to have most of the
|
|
|
1306 syntax right (sexp motion commands work, but function motion commands don't).
|
|
|
1307 It also sets the font-lock syntax stuff for colorization
|
|
|
1308 *** modes/mail-abbrevs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1309 *** modes/make-mode.el
|
|
|
1310 Commentary:
|
|
|
1311
|
|
|
1312 A major mode for editing makefiles. The mode knows about Makefile
|
|
|
1313 syntax and defines M-n and M-p to move to next and previous productions.
|
|
|
1314 *** modes/modula2.el
|
|
|
1315 Commentary:
|
|
|
1316
|
|
|
1317 A major mode for editing Modula-2 code. It provides convenient abbrevs
|
|
|
1318 for Modula-2 keywords, knows about the standard layout rules, and supports
|
|
|
1319 a native compile command.
|
|
|
1320 *** modes/nroff-mode.el
|
|
|
1321 Commentary:
|
|
|
1322
|
|
|
1323 This package is a major mode for editing nroff source code. It knows
|
|
|
1324 about various nroff constructs, ms, mm, and me macros, and will fill
|
|
|
1325 and indent paragraphs properly in their presence. It also includes
|
|
|
1326 a command to count text lines (excluding nroff constructs), a command
|
|
|
1327 to center a line, and movement commands that know how to skip macros.
|
|
|
1328 *** modes/old-c-mode.el
|
|
|
1329 Commentary:
|
|
|
1330
|
|
|
1331 A smart editing mode for C code. It knows a lot about C syntax and tries
|
|
|
1332 to position the cursor according to C layout conventions. You can
|
|
|
1333 change the details of the layout style with option variables. Load it
|
|
|
1334 and do M-x describe-mode for details.
|
|
|
1335 *** modes/outl-mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1336 *** modes/outline.el
|
|
|
1337 Commentary:
|
|
|
1338
|
|
|
1339 This package is a major mode for editing outline-format documents.
|
|
|
1340 An outline can be `abstracted' to show headers at any given level,
|
|
|
1341 with all stuff below hidden. See the Emacs manual for details.
|
|
|
1342 *** modes/pascal.el
|
|
|
1343
|
|
|
1344 Emacs should enter Pascal mode when you find a Pascal source file.
|
|
|
1345 When you have entered Pascal mode, you may get more info by pressing
|
|
|
1346 C-h m. You may also get online help describing various functions by:
|
|
|
1347 C-h f <Name of function you want described>
|
|
|
1348 *** modes/perl-mode.el
|
|
|
1349 *** modes/picture.el
|
|
|
1350 Commentary:
|
|
|
1351
|
|
|
1352 This code provides the picture-mode commands documented in the Emacs
|
|
|
1353 manual. The screen is treated as a semi-infinite quarter-plane with
|
|
|
1354 support for rectangle operations and `etch-a-sketch' character
|
|
|
1355 insertion in any of eight directions.
|
|
|
1356 *** modes/postscript.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1357 modes/prolog.el
|
|
|
1358 Commentary:
|
|
|
1359
|
|
|
1360 This package provides a major mode for editing Prolog. It knows
|
|
|
1361 about Prolog syntax and comments, and can send regions to an inferior
|
|
|
1362 Prolog interpreter process.
|
|
|
1363 *** modes/python-mode.el
|
|
|
1364 Commentary:
|
|
|
1365
|
|
|
1366 This is a major mode for editing Python programs. It was developed
|
|
|
1367 by Tim Peters after an original idea by Michael A. Guravage. Tim
|
|
|
1368 subsequently left the net; in 1995, Barry Warsaw inherited the
|
|
|
1369 mode and is the current maintainer.
|
|
|
1370 *** modes/rexx-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1371 *** modes/rsz-minibuf.el
|
|
|
1372 Commentary:
|
|
|
1373
|
|
|
1374 This package allows the entire contents (or as much as possible) of the
|
|
|
1375 minibuffer to be visible at once when typing. As the end of a line is
|
|
|
1376 reached, the minibuffer will resize itself. When the user is done
|
|
|
1377 typing, the minibuffer will return to its original size.
|
|
|
1378 *** modes/scheme.el
|
|
|
1379 Commentary:
|
|
|
1380
|
|
|
1381 Adapted from Lisp mode by Bill Rozas, jinx@prep.
|
|
|
1382 Initially a query replace of Lisp mode, except for the indentation
|
|
|
1383 of special forms. Probably the code should be merged at some point
|
|
|
1384 so that there is sharing between both libraries.
|
|
|
1385 *** modes/scribe.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1386 *** modes/sendmail.el
|
|
|
1387 Commentary:
|
|
|
1388
|
|
|
1389 This mode provides mail-sending facilities from within Emacs. It is
|
|
|
1390 documented in the Emacs user's manual.
|
|
|
1391 *** modes/sh-script.el
|
|
|
1392 Commentary:
|
|
|
1393
|
|
|
1394 Major mode for editing shell scripts. Bourne, C and rc shells as well
|
|
|
1395 as various derivatives are supported and easily derived from. Structured
|
|
|
1396 statements can be inserted with one command or abbrev. Completion is
|
|
|
1397 available for filenames, variables known from the script, the shell and
|
|
|
1398 the environment as well as commands.
|
|
|
1399 *** modes/simula.el
|
|
|
1400 Commentary:
|
|
|
1401
|
|
|
1402 A major mode for editing the Simula language. It knows about Simula
|
|
|
1403 syntax and standard indentation commands. It also provides convenient
|
|
|
1404 abbrevs for Simula keywords.
|
|
|
1405 *** modes/tcl.el
|
|
|
1406 Commentary:
|
|
|
1407
|
|
|
1408 Major mode for editing Tcl
|
|
|
1409 *** modes/texinfo.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1410 *** modes/text-mode.el
|
|
|
1411 Commentary:
|
|
|
1412
|
|
|
1413 This package provides the fundamental text mode documented in the
|
|
|
1414 Emacs user's manual.
|
|
|
1415 *** modes/two-column.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1416 *** modes/verilog-mode.el
|
|
|
1417 Commentary:
|
|
|
1418
|
|
|
1419 A major mode for editing Verilog HDL source code. When you have
|
|
|
1420 entered Verilog mode, you may get more info by pressing C-h m. You
|
|
|
1421 may also get online help describing various functions by: C-h f
|
|
|
1422 <Name of function you want described>
|
|
|
1423 *** modes/view-less.el
|
|
|
1424 Commentary:
|
|
|
1425
|
|
|
1426 This mode is for browsing files without changing them. Keybindings
|
|
|
1427 similar to those used by the less(1) program are used.
|
|
|
1428 *** modes/view.el
|
|
|
1429 Commentary:
|
|
|
1430
|
|
|
1431 This package provides the `view' minor mode documented in the Emacs
|
|
|
1432 user's manual.
|
|
|
1433
|
|
|
1434 XEmacs: We don't autoload this because we use `view-less' instead.
|
|
|
1435 *** modes/vrml-mode.el
|
|
|
1436 Commentary:
|
|
|
1437
|
|
|
1438 Mostly bastardized from tcl.el.
|
|
|
1439 *** modes/whitespace-mode.el
|
|
|
1440 Commentary:
|
|
|
1441
|
|
|
1442 This is a minor mode, which highlights whitespaces (blanks and
|
|
|
1443 tabs) with different faces, so that it is easier to
|
|
|
1444 distinguish between them.
|
|
|
1445 Toggle the mode with: M-x whitespace-mode
|
|
|
1446 or with: M-x whitespace-incremental-mode
|
|
|
1447 The second one should be used in big files.
|
|
|
1448 *** modes/winmgr-mode.el
|
|
|
1449 Commentary:
|
|
|
1450
|
|
|
1451 This package is a major mode for editing window configuration files and
|
|
|
1452 also defines font-lock keywords for such files.
|
|
|
1453 *** modes/xpm-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1454 modes/xrdb-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1455
|
|
|
1456 ** mu - Message Utilities library (part of the Tools for MIME).
|
|
|
1457
|
|
|
1458 ** ns - NeXTstep
|
|
|
1459
|
|
|
1460 ** oobr - Browser for Object Oriented languages
|
|
|
1461 *** oobr/br-c++-ft.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1462
|
|
|
1463 ** packages - Lot's of stuff: array, baloon help, version control, ...
|
|
|
1464 *** packages/add-log.el
|
|
|
1465 Commentary:
|
|
|
1466
|
|
|
1467 This facility is documented in the Emacs Manual.
|
|
|
1468 *** packages/apropos.el
|
|
|
1469 Commentary:
|
|
|
1470
|
|
|
1471 The ideas for this package were derived from the C code in
|
|
|
1472 src/keymap.c and elsewhere. The functions in this file should
|
|
|
1473 always be byte-compiled for speed. Someone should rewrite this in
|
|
|
1474 C (as part of src/keymap.c) for speed.
|
|
|
1475 *** packages/array.el
|
|
|
1476 Commentary:
|
|
|
1477
|
|
|
1478 Commands for editing a buffer interpreted as a rectangular array
|
|
|
1479 or matrix of whitespace-separated strings. You specify the array
|
|
|
1480 dimensions and some other parameters at startup time.
|
|
|
1481 *** packages/auto-save.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1482 packages/autoinsert.el
|
|
|
1483 Commentary:
|
|
|
1484
|
|
|
1485 The following defines an association list for text to be
|
|
|
1486 automatically inserted when a new file is created, and a function
|
|
|
1487 which automatically inserts these files; the idea is to insert
|
|
|
1488 default text much as the mode is automatically set using
|
|
|
1489 auto-mode-alist.
|
|
|
1490 *** packages/avoid.el
|
|
|
1491 Commentary:
|
|
|
1492
|
|
|
1493 For those who are annoyed by the mouse pointer obscuring text,
|
|
|
1494 this mode moves the mouse pointer - either just a little out of
|
|
|
1495 the way, or all the way to the corner of the frame.
|
|
|
1496 To use, load or evaluate this file and type M-x mouse-avoidance-mode .
|
|
|
1497 To set up permanently, put this file on your .emacs:
|
|
|
1498 *** packages/backup-dir.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1499 *** packages/balloon-help.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1500 *** packages/big-menubar.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1501 *** packages/blink-cursor.el
|
|
|
1502 *** packages/blink-paren.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1503 *** packages/bookmark.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1504 *** packages/buff-menu.el
|
|
|
1505 Commentary:
|
|
|
1506
|
|
|
1507 Edit, delete, or change attributes of all currently active Emacs
|
|
|
1508 buffers from a list summarizing their state. A good way to browse
|
|
|
1509 any special or scratch buffers you have loaded, since you can't find
|
|
|
1510 them by filename. The single entry point is `Buffer-menu-mode',
|
|
|
1511 normally bound to C-x C-b.
|
|
|
1512 *** packages/chistory.el
|
|
|
1513 Commentary:
|
|
|
1514
|
|
|
1515 This really has nothing to do with list-command-history per se, but
|
|
|
1516 its a nice alternative to C-x ESC ESC (repeat-complex-command) and
|
|
|
1517 functions as a lister if given no pattern. It's not important
|
|
|
1518 enough to warrant a file of its own.
|
|
|
1519 *** packages/cmuscheme.el
|
|
|
1520 Commentary:
|
|
|
1521
|
|
|
1522 This is a customisation of comint-mode (see comint.el)
|
|
|
1523 *** packages/crypt.el
|
|
|
1524 Commentary:
|
|
|
1525
|
|
|
1526 NOTE: Apparently not being maintained by the author, who now
|
|
|
1527 uses jka-compr.el. --ben (1/26/96)
|
|
|
1528 Included patch (1/26/96)
|
|
|
1529
|
|
|
1530 Code for handling all sorts of compressed and encrypted files.|
|
|
|
1531 *** packages/cu-edit-faces.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1532 *** packages/dabbrev.el
|
|
|
1533 Commentary:
|
|
|
1534
|
|
|
1535 The purpose with this package is to let you write just a few
|
|
|
1536 characters of words you've written earlier to be able to expand
|
|
|
1537 them.
|
|
|
1538 *** packages/desktop.el
|
|
|
1539 Commentary:
|
|
|
1540
|
|
|
1541 Save the Desktop, i.e.,
|
|
|
1542 - some global variables
|
|
|
1543 - the list of buffers with associated files. For each buffer also
|
|
|
1544 - the major mode
|
|
|
1545 - the default directory
|
|
|
1546 - the point
|
|
|
1547 - the mark & mark-active
|
|
|
1548 - buffer-read-only
|
|
|
1549 - some local variables
|
|
|
1550 *** packages/fast-lock.el
|
|
|
1551 Commentary:
|
|
|
1552
|
|
|
1553 Lazy Lock mode is a Font Lock support mode.
|
|
|
1554 It makes visiting a file in Font Lock mode faster by restoring its face text
|
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1555 properties from automatically saved associated Font Lock cache files.
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1556 *** packages/font-lock.el
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1557 Font-lock-mode is a minor mode that causes your comments to be
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1558 displayed in one face, strings in another, reserved words in another,
|
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1559 documentation strings in another, and so on.
|
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|
1560 *** packages/func-menu.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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1561 *** packages/generic-sc.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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1562 *** packages/gnuserv.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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1563 *** packages/gopher.el
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1564 Commentary:
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|
1565 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
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1566
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1567 To use, `M-x gopher'. To specify a different root server, use
|
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|
1568 `C-u M-x gopher'. If you want to use bookmarks, set the variable
|
|
|
1569 gopher-support-bookmarks appropriately.
|
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|
1570 *** packages/hexl.el
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1571 Commentary:
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1572
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1573 This package implements a major mode for editing binary files. It uses
|
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|
1574 a program called hexl, supplied with the GNU Emacs distribution, that
|
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|
1575 can filter a binary into an editable format or from the format back into
|
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|
1576 binary. For full instructions, invoke `hexl-mode' on an empty buffer and
|
|
|
1577 do `M-x describe-mode'.
|
|
|
1578 *** packages/hyper-apropos.el
|
|
|
1579 Commentary:
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|
1580
|
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|
1581 Rather than run apropos and print all the documentation at once,
|
|
|
1582 I find it easier to view a "table of contents" first, then
|
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|
1583 get the details for symbols as you need them.
|
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|
1584 *** packages/icomplete.el
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|
1585 Commentary:
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1586
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1587 Loading this package implements a more fine-grained minibuffer
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|
1588 completion feedback scheme. Prospective completions are concisely
|
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1589 indicated within the minibuffer itself, with each successive
|
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|
1590 keystroke.
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|
1591 *** packages/igrep.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1592 *** packages/info.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1593 *** packages/informat.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1594 *** packages/ispell.el
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1595 Commentary:
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1596 *** packages/jka-compr.el
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1597 Commentary:
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1598
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1599 This package implements low-level support for reading, writing,
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1600 and loading compressed files. It hooks into the low-level file
|
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1601 I/O functions (including write-region and insert-file-contents) so
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1602 that they automatically compress or uncompress a file if the file
|
|
|
1603 appears to need it (based on the extension of the file name).
|
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|
1604 Packages like Rmail, VM, GNUS, and Info should be able to work
|
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|
1605 with compressed files without modification.
|
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|
1606 *** packages/lazy-lock.el
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1607 Commentary:
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1608
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1609 Purpose:
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1610
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1611 To make visiting buffers in `font-lock-mode' faster by making fontification
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1612 be demand-driven and stealthy.
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|
1613 Fontification only occurs when, and where, necessary.
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|
1614 *** packages/ledit.el
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1615 Commentary:
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1616
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1617 This is a major mode for editing Liszt. See etc/LEDIT for details.
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|
1618 *** packages/lispm-fonts.el Can't find any Commentary section
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|
1619 *** packages/lpr.el
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1620 Commentary:
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1621
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|
1622 Commands to send the region or a buffer your printer. Entry points
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|
1623 are `lpr-buffer', `print-buffer', lpr-region', or `print-region'; option
|
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|
1624 variables include `lpr-switches' and `lpr-command'.
|
|
|
1625 *** packages/makeinfo.el
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|
1626 Commentary:
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1627
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1628 The Texinfo mode `makeinfo' related commands are:
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|
1629 *** packages/makesum.el
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|
1630 Commentary:
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1631
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1632 Displays a nice human-readable summary of all keybindings in a
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|
1633 two-column format.
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|
1634 *** packages/man.el Can't find any Commentary section
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|
1635 *** packages/metamail.el
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1636 Commentary:
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1637
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|
1638 Note: Metamail does not have all options which is compatible with
|
|
|
1639 the environment variables. For that reason, matamail.el have to
|
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|
1640 hack the environment variables. In addition, there is no way to
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|
1641 display all header fields without extra informative body messages
|
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|
1642 which are suppressed by "-q" option.
|
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|
1643
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|
1644 The idea of using metamail to process MIME messages is from
|
|
|
1645 gnus-mime.el by Spike <Spike@world.std.com>.
|
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|
1646 *** packages/mic-paren.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
1647 *** packages/mime-compose.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
1648 *** packages/mode-motion+.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1649 *** packages/netunam.el
|
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|
1650 Commentary:
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|
1651
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|
1652 Use the Remote File Access (RFA) facility of HP-UX from Emacs.
|
|
|
1653 *** packages/page-ext.el
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|
1654 Commentary:
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|
1655
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|
1656 You may use these commands to handle an address list or other
|
|
|
1657 small data base.
|
|
|
1658 *** packages/paren.el
|
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|
1659 Commentary:
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|
1660
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|
1661 Purpose of this package:
|
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|
1662
|
|
|
1663 This package highlights matching parens (or whole sexps) for easier
|
|
|
1664 editing of source code, particularly lisp source code.
|
|
|
1665 *** packages/pending-del.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1666 *** packages/ps-print.el
|
|
|
1667 Commentary:
|
|
|
1668
|
|
|
1669 This package provides printing of Emacs buffers on PostScript
|
|
|
1670 printers; the buffer's bold and italic text attributes are
|
|
|
1671 preserved in the printer output. Ps-print is intended for use with
|
|
|
1672 Emacs 19 or Lucid Emacs, together with a fontifying package such as
|
|
|
1673 font-lock or hilit.
|
|
|
1674 *** packages/rcompile.el
|
|
|
1675 Commentary:
|
|
|
1676
|
|
|
1677 This package is for running a remote compilation and using emacs to parse
|
|
|
1678 the error messages. It works by rsh'ing the compilation to a remote host
|
|
|
1679 and parsing the output. If the file visited at the time remote-compile was
|
|
|
1680 called was loaded remotely (ange-ftp), the host and user name are obtained
|
|
|
1681 by the calling ange-ftp-ftp-name on the current directory. In this case the
|
|
|
1682 next-error command will also ange-ftp the files over. This is achieved
|
|
|
1683 automatically because the compilation-parse-errors function uses
|
|
|
1684 default-directory to build it's file names. If however the file visited was
|
|
|
1685 loaded locally, remote-compile prompts for a host and user and assumes the
|
|
|
1686 files mounted locally (otherwise, how was the visited file loaded).
|
|
|
1687 *** packages/recent-files.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1688 *** packages/refbib.el
|
|
|
1689 Commentary:
|
|
|
1690
|
|
|
1691 Use: from a buffer containing the refer-style bibliography,
|
|
|
1692 M-x r2b-convert-buffer
|
|
|
1693 Program will prompt for an output buffer name, and will log
|
|
|
1694 warnings during the conversion process in the buffer *Log*.
|
|
|
1695 *** packages/remote.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1696 *** packages/reportmail.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1697 *** packages/resume.el
|
|
|
1698 Commentary:
|
|
|
1699
|
|
|
1700 The purpose of this library is to handle command line arguments
|
|
|
1701 when you resume an existing Emacs job.
|
|
|
1702
|
|
|
1703 You can't get the benefit of this library by using the `emacs' command,
|
|
|
1704 since that always starts a new Emacs job. Instead you must use a
|
|
|
1705 command called `edit' which knows how to resume an existing Emacs job
|
|
|
1706 if you have one, or start a new Emacs job if you don't have one.
|
|
|
1707
|
|
|
1708 To define the `edit' command, run the script etc/emacs.csh (if you use CSH),
|
|
|
1709 or etc/emacs.bash if you use BASH. You would normally do this in your
|
|
|
1710 login script.
|
|
|
1711 *** packages/saveconf.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1712 *** packages/saveplace.el
|
|
|
1713 Commentary:
|
|
|
1714
|
|
|
1715 Automatically save place in files, so that visiting them later
|
|
|
1716 (even during a different Emacs session) automatically moves point
|
|
|
1717 to the saved position, when the file is first found. Uses the
|
|
|
1718 value of buffer-local variable save-place to determine whether to
|
|
|
1719 save position or not.
|
|
|
1720 *** packages/sccs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1721 *** packages/scroll-in-place.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1722 *** packages/server.el
|
|
|
1723 Commentary:
|
|
|
1724
|
|
|
1725 This Lisp code is run in Emacs when it is to operate as
|
|
|
1726 a server for other processes.
|
|
|
1727
|
|
|
1728 *** packages/shell-font.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1729 *** packages/spell.el
|
|
|
1730 Commentary:
|
|
|
1731
|
|
|
1732 This mode provides an Emacs interface to the UNIX spell(1) program.
|
|
|
1733 Entry points are `spell-buffer', `spell-word', `spell-region' and
|
|
|
1734 `spell-string'. These facilities are documented in the Emacs user's
|
|
|
1735 manual.
|
|
|
1736 *** packages/supercite.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1737 *** packages/tar-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1738 *** packages/terminal.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1739 *** packages/tex-latin1.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1740 *** packages/texinfmt.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1741 *** packages/texnfo-tex.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1742 *** packages/texnfo-upd.el
|
|
|
1743 Commentary:
|
|
|
1744 *** packages/time-stamp.el
|
|
|
1745 Commentary:
|
|
|
1746
|
|
|
1747 If you put a time stamp template anywhere in the first 8 lines of a file,
|
|
|
1748 it can be updated every time you save the file. See the top of
|
|
|
1749 time-stamp.el for a sample. The template looks like one of the following:
|
|
|
1750 Time-stamp: <>
|
|
|
1751 Time-stamp: " "
|
|
|
1752 The time stamp is written between the brackets or quotes, resulting in
|
|
|
1753 Time-stamp: <95/01/18 10:20:51 gildea>
|
|
|
1754 *** packages/time.el
|
|
|
1755 Commentary:
|
|
|
1756
|
|
|
1757 Facilities to display current time/date and a new-mail indicator
|
|
|
1758 in the Emacs mode line. The single entry point is `display-time'.
|
|
|
1759 *** packages/uncompress.el
|
|
|
1760 Commentary:
|
|
|
1761
|
|
|
1762 This package can be used to arrange for automatic uncompress of
|
|
|
1763 files packed with the UNIX compress(1) utility when they are visited.
|
|
|
1764 All that's necessary is to load it. This can conveniently be done from
|
|
|
1765 your .emacs file.
|
|
|
1766 *** packages/underline.el
|
|
|
1767 Commentary:
|
|
|
1768
|
|
|
1769 This package deals with the primitive form of underlining
|
|
|
1770 consisting of prefixing each character with "_\^h". The entry
|
|
|
1771 point `underline-region' performs such underlining on a region.
|
|
|
1772 The entry point `ununderline-region' removes it.
|
|
|
1773 *** packages/upd-copyr.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1774 *** packages/vc.el
|
|
|
1775 Commentary:
|
|
|
1776
|
|
|
1777 This mode is fully documented in the Emacs user's manual.
|
|
|
1778
|
|
|
1779 Supported version-control systems presently include SCCS, RCS, and CVS.
|
|
|
1780 The RCS lock-stealing code doesn't work right unless you use RCS 5.6.2
|
|
|
1781 or newer. Currently (January 1994) that is only a beta test release.
|
|
|
1782 Even initial checkins will fail if your RCS version is so old that ci
|
|
|
1783 doesn't understand -t-; this has been known to happen to people running
|
|
|
1784 NExTSTEP 3.0.
|
|
|
1785 *** packages/webjump.el
|
|
|
1786 Change Log:
|
|
|
1787 *** packages/webster-ucb.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1788 *** packages/webster.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1789 *** packages/xscheme.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1790
|
|
|
1791
|
|
|
1792 ** pcl-cvs - Front end to CVS (see also vc -- version control)
|
|
|
1793 *** pcl-cvs/cookie.el
|
|
|
1794 Commentary:
|
|
|
1795
|
|
|
1796 Introduction
|
|
|
1797 ============
|
|
|
1798
|
|
|
1799 Cookie is a package that implements a connection between an
|
|
|
1800 dll (a doubly linked list) and the contents of a buffer.
|
|
|
1801 Possible uses are dired (have all files in a list, and show them),
|
|
|
1802 buffer-list, kom-prioritize (in the LysKOM elisp client) and
|
|
|
1803 others. pcl-cvs.el uses cookie.el.
|
|
|
1804 *** pcl-cvs/dll-debug.el
|
|
|
1805 Commentary:
|
|
|
1806
|
|
|
1807 This is a plug-in replacement for dll.el. It is dreadfully
|
|
|
1808 slow, but it facilitates debugging. Don't trust the comments in
|
|
|
1809 this file too much.
|
|
|
1810 (provide 'dll)
|
|
|
1811
|
|
|
1812 *** pcl-cvs/dll.el
|
|
|
1813 Commentary:
|
|
|
1814
|
|
|
1815 A doubly linked list consists of one cons cell which holds the tag
|
|
|
1816 'DL-LIST in the car cell and a pointer to a dummy node in the cdr
|
|
|
1817 cell. The doubly linked list is implemented as a circular list
|
|
|
1818 with the dummy node first and last. The dummy node is recognized
|
|
|
1819 by comparing it to the node which the cdr of the cons cell points
|
|
|
1820 to.
|
|
|
1821
|
|
|
1822 *** pcl-cvs/elib-node.el
|
|
|
1823 Commentary:
|
|
|
1824
|
|
|
1825 A node is implemented as an array with three elements, using
|
|
|
1826 (elt node 0) as the left pointer
|
|
|
1827 (elt node 1) as the right pointer
|
|
|
1828 (elt node 2) as the data
|
|
|
1829 *** pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs-startup.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1830 *** pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs-xemacs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1831 *** pcl-cvs/pcl-cvs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1832 *** pcl-cvs/string.el
|
|
|
1833 Commentary:
|
|
|
1834
|
|
|
1835
|
|
|
1836 This file is part of the elisp library Elib.
|
|
|
1837 It implements simple generic string functions for use in other
|
|
|
1838 elisp code: replace regexps in strings, split strings on regexps.
|
|
|
1839
|
|
|
1840 ** prim - Lots of XEmacs primitives (see Emacs-Lisp manual).
|
|
|
1841 *** prim/about.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1842 *** prim/advocacy.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1843 *** prim/auto-autoloads.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1844 *** prim/backquote.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1845 *** prim/buffer.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1846 *** prim/case-table.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1847 *** prim/cleantree.el
|
|
|
1848 Commentary:
|
|
|
1849
|
|
|
1850 This code is derived from Gnus based on a suggestion by
|
|
|
1851 David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
|
|
|
1852 *** prim/cmdloop.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1853 *** prim/cmdloop1.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1854 *** prim/console.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1855 *** prim/custom-load.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1856 *** prim/debug.el
|
|
|
1857 Commentary:
|
|
|
1858
|
|
|
1859 This is a major mode documented in the Emacs manual.
|
|
|
1860 *** prim/device.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1861 *** prim/dialog.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1862 *** prim/disp-table.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1863 *** prim/env.el
|
|
|
1864 Commentary:
|
|
|
1865
|
|
|
1866 UNIX processes inherit a list of name-to-string associations from their
|
|
|
1867 parents called their `environment'; these are commonly used to control
|
|
|
1868 program options. This package permits you to set environment variables
|
|
|
1869 to be passed to any sub-process run under XEmacs.
|
|
|
1870 *** prim/events.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1871 *** prim/extents.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1872 *** prim/faces.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1873 *** prim/files.el
|
|
|
1874 Commentary:
|
|
|
1875
|
|
|
1876 Defines most of XEmacs's file- and directory-handling functions,
|
|
|
1877 including basic file visiting, backup generation, link handling,
|
|
|
1878 ITS-id version control, load- and write-hook handling, and the like.
|
|
|
1879 *** prim/fill.el
|
|
|
1880 Commentary:
|
|
|
1881
|
|
|
1882 All the commands for filling text. These are documented in the XEmacs
|
|
|
1883 Reference Manual.
|
|
|
1884 *** prim/float-sup.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1885 *** prim/format.el
|
|
|
1886 Commentary:
|
|
|
1887
|
|
|
1888 This file defines a unified mechanism for saving & loading files stored
|
|
|
1889 in different formats. `format-alist' contains information that directs
|
|
|
1890 Emacs to call an encoding or decoding function when reading or writing
|
|
|
1891 files that match certain conditions.
|
|
|
1892 *** prim/frame.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1893 *** prim/glyphs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1894 *** prim/gui.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1895 *** prim/help.el
|
|
|
1896 Commentary:
|
|
|
1897
|
|
|
1898 This code implements XEmacs's on-line help system, the one invoked by
|
|
|
1899 `M-x help-for-help'.
|
|
|
1900 *** prim/inc-vers.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1901 *** prim/indent.el
|
|
|
1902 Commentary:
|
|
|
1903
|
|
|
1904 Commands for making and changing indentation in text. These are
|
|
|
1905 described in the XEmacs Reference Manual.
|
|
|
1906 *** prim/isearch-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1907 *** prim/itimer-autosave.el
|
|
|
1908 Commentary:
|
|
|
1909
|
|
|
1910 itimer-driven auto-saves
|
|
|
1911 *** prim/itimer.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1912 *** prim/keydefs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1913 *** prim/keymap.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
1914 *** prim/lisp.el
|
|
|
1915 Commentary:
|
|
|
1916
|
|
|
1917 Lisp editing commands to go with Lisp major mode.
|
|
|
1918 *** prim/loaddefs.el
|
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1919 Commentary:
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1920
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1921 You should never need to write autoloads by hand and put them here.
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1922
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1923 It is no longer necessary. Instead use autoload.el to maintain them
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1924 for you. Just insert ";;;###autoload" before defuns or defmacros you
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1925 want to be autoloaded, or other forms you want copied into loaddefs.el
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1926 (defvars, key definitions, etc.).
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1927 *** prim/loadup-el.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1928 *** prim/loadup.el
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1929 Commentary:
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1930
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1931 This is loaded into a bare Emacs to make a dumpable one.
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1932 *** prim/macros.el
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1933 Commentary:
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1934
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1935 Extension commands for keyboard macros. These permit you to assign
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1936 a name to the last-defined keyboard macro, expand and insert the
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1937 lisp corresponding to a macro, query the user from within a macro,
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1938 or apply a macro to each line in the reason.
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1939
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1940 This file is largely superseded by edmacro.el as of XEmacs 20.1. -sb
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1941 *** prim/menubar.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1942 *** prim/minibuf.el
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1943 Commentary:
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1944
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1945 Written by Richard Mlynarik 2-Oct-92
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1946 *** prim/misc.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1947 *** prim/mode-motion.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1948 *** prim/modeline.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1949 *** prim/mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1950 *** prim/novice.el
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1951 Commentary:
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1952
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1953 This mode provides a hook which is, by default, attached to various
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1954 putatively dangerous commands in a (probably futile) attempt to
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1955 prevent lusers from shooting themselves in the feet.
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1956 *** prim/objects.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1957 *** prim/obsolete.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1958 *** prim/options.el
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1959 Commentary:
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1960
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1961 This code provides functions to list and edit the values of all global
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1962 option variables known to loaded Emacs Lisp code. There are two entry
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1963 points, `list-options' and `edit' options'. The latter enters a major
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1964 mode specifically for editing option values. Do `M-x describe-mode' in
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1965 that context for more details.
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1966 *** prim/overlay.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1967 *** prim/page.el
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1968 Commentary:
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1969
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1970 This code provides the page-oriented movement and selection commands
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1971 documented in the XEmacs Reference Manual.
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1972 *** prim/paragraphs.el
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1973 Commentary:
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1974
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1975 This package provides the paragraph-oriented commands documented in the
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1976 XEmacs Reference Manual.
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1977 *** prim/process.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1978 *** prim/profile.el Can't find any Commentary section
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1979 *** prim/rect.el
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1980 Commentary:
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1981
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1982 This package provides the operations on rectangles that are ocumented
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1983 in the XEmacs Reference Manual.
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1984 *** prim/register.el
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1985 Commentary:
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1986
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1987 This package of functions emulates and somewhat extends the venerable
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1988 TECO's `register' feature, which permits you to save various useful
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1989 pieces of buffer state to named variables. The entry points are
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1990 documented in the XEmacs Reference Manual.
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1991 *** prim/replace.el
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1992 Commentary:
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1993
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1994 This package supplies the string and regular-expression replace functions
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1995 documented in the XEmacs Reference Manual.
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1996
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1997 All the gettext calls are for XEmacs I18N3 message catalog support.
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1998 *** prim/reposition.el
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1999 Commentary:
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2000
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2001 Reposition-window makes an entire function definition or comment visible,
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2002 or, if it is already visible, places it at the top of the window;
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2003 additional invocations toggle the visibility of comments preceding the
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2004 code. For the gory details, see the documentation for reposition-window;
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|
2005 rather than reading that, you may just want to play with it.
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2006
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2007 This tries pretty hard to do the recentering correctly; the precise
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2008 action depends on what the buffer looks like. If you find a situation
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2009 where it doesn't behave well, let me know. This function is modeled
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2010 after one of the same name in ZMACS, but the code is all-new and the
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2011 behavior in some situations differs.
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2012 *** prim/scrollbar.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2013 *** prim/simple.el
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2014 Commentary:
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2015
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2016 A grab-bag of basic XEmacs commands not specifically related to some
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2017 major mode or to file-handling.
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2018 *** prim/sort.el
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2019 Commentary:
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2020
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|
2021 This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the XEmacs
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2022 Reference Manual.
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|
2023 *** prim/sound.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2024 *** prim/specifier.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2025 *** prim/startup.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2026 *** prim/subr.el
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2027 Commentary:
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2028
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|
2029 There's not a whole lot in common now with the FSF version,
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|
2030 be wary when applying differences. I've left in a number of lines
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|
|
2031 of commentary just to give diff(1) something to synch itself with to
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|
|
2032 provide useful context diffs. -sb
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|
|
2033 *** prim/symbols.el
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|
2034 Commentary:
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|
2035
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|
2036 The idea behind magic variables is that you can specify arbitrary
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|
2037 behavior to happen when setting or retrieving a variable's value. The
|
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|
2038 purpose of this is to make it possible to cleanly provide support for
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|
|
2039 obsolete variables (e.g. unread-command-event, which is obsolete for
|
|
|
2040 unread-command-events) and variable compatibility
|
|
|
2041 (e.g. suggest-key-bindings, the FSF equivalent of
|
|
|
2042 teach-extended-commands-p and teach-extended-commands-timeout).
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|
2043 *** prim/syntax.el Can't find any Commentary section
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|
2044 *** prim/tabify.el
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|
2045 Commentary:
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2046
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|
2047 Commands to optimize spaces to tabs or expand tabs to spaces in a region
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|
2048 (`tabify' and `untabify'). The variable tab-width does the obvious.
|
|
|
2049 *** prim/toolbar.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2050 *** prim/undo-stack.el Can't find any Commentary section
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|
2051 *** prim/update-elc.el Can't find any Commentary section
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|
|
2052 *** prim/userlock.el
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|
2053 Commentary:
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|
2054
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|
|
2055 This file is autoloaded to handle certain conditions
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|
|
2056 detected by the file-locking code within XEmacs.
|
|
|
2057 The two entry points are `ask-user-about-lock' and
|
|
|
2058 `ask-user-about-supersession-threat'.
|
|
|
2059 *** prim/window.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2060
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|
|
2061 ** psgml - SGML/HTML editing mode
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|
2062 *** psgml/iso-sgml.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2063 *** psgml/psgml-api.el
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|
|
2064 Commentary:
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|
2065
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|
2066 Provides some extra functions for the API to PSGML.
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|
2067
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|
|
2068 *** psgml/psgml-charent.el
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|
2069 Commentary:
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|
2070
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|
|
2071 Functions to convert character entities into displayable characters
|
|
|
2072 and displayable characters back into character entities.
|
|
|
2073
|
|
|
2074 *** psgml/psgml-debug.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2075 *** psgml/psgml-dtd.el
|
|
|
2076 Commentary:
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|
2077
|
|
|
2078 Part of major mode for editing the SGML document-markup language.
|
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|
2079
|
|
|
2080 *** psgml/psgml-edit.el
|
|
|
2081 Commentary:
|
|
|
2082
|
|
|
2083 Part of major mode for editing the SGML document-markup language.
|
|
|
2084
|
|
|
2085 *** psgml/psgml-fs.el
|
|
|
2086 Commentary:
|
|
|
2087
|
|
|
2088 The function `style-format' formats the SGML-file in the current
|
|
|
2089 buffer according to the style defined in the file `psgml-style.fs'
|
|
|
2090 (or the file given by the variable `fs-style').
|
|
|
2091
|
|
|
2092 To try it load this file and open the test file example.sgml. Then
|
|
|
2093 run the emacs command `M-x style-format'.
|
|
|
2094
|
|
|
2095 The style file should contain a single Lisp list. The elements of
|
|
|
2096 this list, are them self lists, describe the style for an element type.
|
|
|
2097 The sublists begin with the generic identifier for the element types and
|
|
|
2098 the rest of the list are characteristic/value pairs.
|
|
|
2099
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|
|
2100 E.g. ("p" block t left 4 top 2)
|
|
|
2101
|
|
|
2102 Defines the style for p-elements to be blocks with left margin 4 and
|
|
|
2103 at least to blank lines before the block.
|
|
|
2104
|
|
|
2105 *** psgml/psgml-html.el
|
|
|
2106 Commentary:
|
|
|
2107
|
|
|
2108 Parts were taken from html-helper-mode and from code by Alastair Burt.
|
|
|
2109
|
|
|
2110 Feb 18 1997, Heiko Muenkel: Added the hook variable html-mode-hook.
|
|
|
2111 ; With that you can now use the hm--html-minor-mode together
|
|
|
2112 ; with this mode. For that you've to add the following line
|
|
|
2113 ; to your ~/.emacs:
|
|
|
2114 ; (add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'hm--html-minor-mode)
|
|
|
2115 *** psgml/psgml-info.el
|
|
|
2116 Commentary:
|
|
|
2117
|
|
|
2118 This file is an addon to the PSGML package.
|
|
|
2119
|
|
|
2120 This file contains some commands to print out information about the
|
|
|
2121 current DTD.
|
|
|
2122 *** psgml/psgml-other.el
|
|
|
2123 Commentary:
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|
|
2124
|
|
|
2125 Part of psgml.el. Code not compatible with XEmacs.
|
|
|
2126
|
|
|
2127 *** psgml/psgml-parse.el
|
|
|
2128 Commentary:
|
|
|
2129
|
|
|
2130 Part of major mode for editing the SGML document-markup language.
|
|
|
2131
|
|
|
2132 *** psgml/psgml-xemacs.el
|
|
|
2133 Commentary:
|
|
|
2134
|
|
|
2135 Part of psgml.el
|
|
|
2136
|
|
|
2137 Menus for use with XEmacs
|
|
|
2138
|
|
|
2139 *** psgml/psgml.el
|
|
|
2140 Commentary:
|
|
|
2141
|
|
|
2142 Major mode for editing the SGML document-markup language.
|
|
|
2143 *** psgml/tempo.el
|
|
|
2144 Commentary:
|
|
|
2145
|
|
|
2146 This file provides a simple way to define powerful templates, or
|
|
|
2147 macros, if you wish. It is mainly intended for, but not limited to,
|
|
|
2148 other programmers to be used for creating shortcuts for editing
|
|
|
2149 certain kind of documents. It was originally written to be used by
|
|
|
2150 a HTML editing mode written by Nelson Minar <nelson@santafe.edu>,
|
|
|
2151 and his html-helper-mode.el is probably the best example of how to
|
|
|
2152 use this program.
|
|
|
2153
|
|
|
2154 ** rmail - Reading Mail (see also VM and GNUS)
|
|
|
2155 *** rmail/rmail-kill.el
|
|
|
2156 Commentary:
|
|
|
2157 *** rmail/rmail-xemacs.el
|
|
|
2158 Commentary:
|
|
|
2159
|
|
|
2160 Right button pops up a menu of commands in Rmail and Rmail summary buffers.
|
|
|
2161 Middle button selects indicated mail message in Rmail summary buffer
|
|
|
2162 *** rmail/rmail.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2163 *** rmail/rmailedit.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2164 *** rmail/rmailkwd.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2165 *** rmail/rmailmsc.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2166 *** rmail/rmailout.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2167 *** rmail/rmailsort.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2168 *** rmail/rmailsum.el
|
|
|
2169 Commentary:
|
|
|
2170
|
|
|
2171 Provided all commands from rmail-mode in rmail-summary-mode and made key
|
|
|
2172 bindings in both modes wholly compatible.
|
|
|
2173 *** rmail/undigest.el
|
|
|
2174 Commentary:
|
|
|
2175
|
|
|
2176 See Internet RFC 934
|
|
|
2177 *** rmail/unrmail.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2178
|
|
|
2179 ** sunpro - Additional code for interfacing with SunPro products.
|
|
|
2180 *** sunpro/sunpro-init.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2181 *** sunpro/sunpro-keys.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2182 *** sunpro/sunpro-load.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2183 *** sunpro/sunpro-menubar.el
|
|
|
2184 Commentary:
|
|
|
2185 Creates the default SunPro menubars.
|
|
|
2186 *** sunpro/sunpro-sparcworks.el
|
|
|
2187 Commentary:
|
|
|
2188
|
|
|
2189 Called from the SPARCworks Manager with the command:
|
|
|
2190
|
|
|
2191 xemacs -q -l sunpro-sparcworks $SUNPRO_SWM_TT_ARGS $SUNPRO_SWM_GUI_ARGS
|
|
|
2192
|
|
|
2193 ** term - Terminal specific initialization: vt100, wyse, ...
|
|
|
2194 *** term/AT386.el
|
|
|
2195 Commentary:
|
|
|
2196
|
|
|
2197 Uses the Emacs 19 terminal initialization features --- won't work with 18.
|
|
|
2198 *** term/apollo.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2199 *** term/bg-mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2200 *** term/bobcat.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2201 *** term/internal.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2202 *** term/keyswap.el
|
|
|
2203 Commentary:
|
|
|
2204
|
|
|
2205 This package is meant to be called by other terminal packages.
|
|
|
2206 *** term/linux.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2207 *** term/lk201.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2208 *** term/news.el
|
|
|
2209 Commentary:
|
|
|
2210
|
|
|
2211 Uses the Emacs 19 terminal initialization features --- won't work with 18.
|
|
|
2212 *** term/pc-win.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2213 *** term/scoansi.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2214 *** term/sun-mouse.el
|
|
|
2215 Commentary:
|
|
|
2216 *** term/sun.el
|
|
|
2217 Commentary:
|
|
|
2218
|
|
|
2219 The function key sequences for the console have been converted for
|
|
|
2220 use with function-key-map, but the *tool stuff hasn't been touched.
|
|
|
2221 *** term/sup-mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2222 *** term/tty-init.el
|
|
|
2223 Commentary:
|
|
|
2224 *** term/tvi970.el
|
|
|
2225 Commentary:
|
|
|
2226
|
|
|
2227 Uses the Emacs 19 terminal initialization features --- won't work with 18.
|
|
|
2228 *** term/vt-control.el
|
|
|
2229 Commentary:
|
|
|
2230
|
|
|
2231 The functions contained in this file send various VT control codes
|
|
|
2232 to the terminal where emacs is running. The following functions are
|
|
|
2233 available.
|
|
|
2234 *** term/vt100-led.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2235 *** term/vt100.el
|
|
|
2236 Commentary:
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|
|
2237
|
|
|
2238 Uses the Emacs 19 terminal initialization features --- won't work with 18.
|
|
|
2239
|
|
|
2240 Handles all VT100 clones, including the Apollo terminal. Also handles
|
|
|
2241 the VT200 --- its PF- and arrow- keys are different, but all those
|
|
|
2242 are really set up by the terminal initialization code, which mines them
|
|
|
2243 out of termcap. This package is here to define the keypad comma, dash
|
|
|
2244 and period (which aren't in termcap's repertoire) and the function for
|
|
|
2245 changing from 80 to 132 columns & vv.
|
|
|
2246 *** term/vt102.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2247 *** term/vt125.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2248 *** term/vt200.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2249 *** term/vt201.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2250 *** term/vt220.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2251 *** term/vt240.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2252 *** term/vt300.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2253 *** term/vt320.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2254 *** term/vt400.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2255 *** term/vt420.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2256 *** term/win32-win.el
|
|
|
2257 Commentary:
|
|
|
2258
|
|
|
2259 win32-win.el: this file is loaded from ../lisp/startup.el when it recognizes
|
|
|
2260 that win32 windows are to be used. Command line switches are parsed and those
|
|
|
2261 pertaining to win32 are processed and removed from the command line. The
|
|
|
2262 win32 display is opened and hooks are set for popping up the initial window.
|
|
|
2263
|
|
|
2264 startup.el will then examine startup files, and eventually call the hooks
|
|
|
2265 which create the first window (s).
|
|
|
2266 *** term/wyse50.el
|
|
|
2267 Commentary:
|
|
|
2268
|
|
|
2269 The Wyse50 is ergonomically wonderful, but its escape-sequence design sucks
|
|
|
2270 rocks. The left-arrow key emits a backspace (!) and the down-arrow a line
|
|
|
2271 feed (!!). Thus, you have to unbind some commonly-used Emacs keys to
|
|
|
2272 enable the arrows.
|
|
|
2273 *** term/xterm.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2274
|
|
|
2275 ** tl - Tiny Library (Part of the Tools for MIME).
|
|
|
2276 *** tl/bitmap.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2277 *** tl/cless.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2278 *** tl/emu-e19.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2279 *** tl/emu-orig.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2280 *** tl/emu-xemacs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2281 *** tl/emu.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2282 *** tl/file-detect.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2283 *** tl/filename.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2284 *** tl/mu-cite.el
|
|
|
2285 Commentary:
|
|
|
2286 *** tl/mu-comment.el
|
|
|
2287 Commentary:
|
|
|
2288
|
|
|
2289 type `C-c C-q' at the beginning of S-expression you want to
|
|
|
2290 comment out.
|
|
|
2291 *** tl/mu-replace.el
|
|
|
2292 Commentary:
|
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2293 *** tl/range.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2294 *** tl/richtext.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2295 *** tl/std11-parse.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2296 *** tl/std11.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2297 *** tl/texi-util.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2298 *** tl/tinyrich.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2299 *** tl/tl-822.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2300 *** tl/tl-atype.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2301 *** tl/tl-list.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2302 *** tl/tl-misc.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2303 *** tl/tl-num.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2304 *** tl/tl-seq.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2305 *** tl/tl-str.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2306 *** tl/tu-comment.el
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2307 Commentary:
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2308 *** tl/tu-replace.el
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2309 Commentary:
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2310
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2311 ** tm - Tools for MIME -- integrates in VM, RMAIL, GNUS
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2312 *** tm/gnus-art-mime.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2313 *** tm/gnus-charset.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2314 *** tm/gnus-mime-old.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2315 *** tm/gnus-mime.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2316 *** tm/gnus-msg-mime.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2317 *** tm/gnus-sum-mime.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2318 *** tm/message-mime.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2319 *** tm/mime-setup.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2320 *** tm/sc-setup.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2321 *** tm/signature.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2322 *** tm/tm-bbdb.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2323 *** tm/tm-def.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2324 *** tm/tm-edit-mc.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2325 *** tm/tm-edit.el
|
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2326 Commentary:
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2327
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2328 This is an Emacs minor mode for editing Internet multimedia
|
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|
2329 messages formatted in MIME (RFC 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048 and 2049).
|
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|
2330 All messages in this mode are composed in the tagged MIME format,
|
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|
2331 that are described in the following examples. The messages
|
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|
2332 composed in the tagged MIME format are automatically translated
|
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|
2333 into a MIME compliant message when exiting the mode.
|
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|
2334 *** tm/tm-ew-d.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2335 *** tm/tm-ew-e.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2336 *** tm/tm-file.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2337 *** tm/tm-ftp.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2338 *** tm/tm-gd3.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2339 *** tm/tm-gnus.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2340 *** tm/tm-gnus4.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2341 *** tm/tm-gnus5.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2342 *** tm/tm-html.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2343 *** tm/tm-image.el
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|
2344 Commentary:
|
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|
2345 If you use this program with MULE, please install
|
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|
2346 etl8x16-bitmap.bdf font included in tl package.
|
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2347 *** tm/tm-latex.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2348 *** tm/tm-mail.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2349 *** tm/tm-mh-e.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2350 *** tm/tm-orig.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2351 *** tm/tm-parse.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2352 *** tm/tm-partial.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2353 *** tm/tm-pgp.el
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|
2354 Commentary:
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2355
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|
2356 This module is based on 2 drafts about PGP MIME integration:
|
|
|
2357 *** tm/tm-play.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2358 *** tm/tm-rmail.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2359 *** tm/tm-setup.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2360 *** tm/tm-sgnus.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2361 *** tm/tm-tar.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2362 *** tm/tm-text.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2363 *** tm/tm-view.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2364 *** tm/tm-vm.el
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|
2365 Commentary:
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|
2366
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|
2367 Plese insert `(require 'tm-vm)' in your ~/.vm file.
|
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|
2368 *** tm/tmh-comp.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2369
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2370 ** tooltalk - Support for Tooltalk protocol
|
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2371 *** tooltalk/tooltalk-init.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2372 *** tooltalk/tooltalk-load.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2373 *** tooltalk/tooltalk-macros.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2374 *** tooltalk/tooltalk-util.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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2375
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|
2376 ** utils - Lots of stuff
|
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|
2377 *** utils/abbrevlist.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2378 *** utils/advice.el
|
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|
2379 Commentary:
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2380
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|
2381 This package implements a full-fledged Lisp-style advice mechanism
|
|
|
2382 for Emacs Lisp. Advice is a clean and efficient way to modify the
|
|
|
2383 behavior of Emacs Lisp functions without having to keep personal
|
|
|
2384 modified copies of such functions around. A great number of such
|
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|
2385 modifications can be achieved by treating the original function as a
|
|
|
2386 black box and specifying a different execution environment for it
|
|
|
2387 with a piece of advice. Think of a piece of advice as a kind of fancy
|
|
|
2388 hook that you can attach to any function/macro/subr.
|
|
|
2389 *** utils/annotations.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2390 *** utils/assoc.el
|
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|
2391 Commentary:
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2392
|
|
|
2393 Association list utilities providing insertion, deletion, sorting
|
|
|
2394 fetching off key-value pairs in association lists.
|
|
|
2395 *** utils/atomic-extents.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2396 *** utils/autoload.el
|
|
|
2397 Commentary:
|
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|
2398
|
|
|
2399 This code helps GNU Emacs maintainers keep the loaddefs.el file up to
|
|
|
2400 date. It interprets magic cookies of the form ";;;###autoload" in
|
|
|
2401 lisp source files in various useful ways. To learn more, read the
|
|
|
2402 source; if you're going to use this, you'd better be able to.
|
|
|
2403 *** utils/bench.el
|
|
|
2404 Commentary:
|
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|
2405
|
|
|
2406 Adapted from Shane Holder's bench.el by steve@xemacs.org.
|
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|
2407
|
|
|
2408 To run
|
|
|
2409 Extract the shar file in /tmp, or modify bench-lisp-file to
|
|
|
2410 point to the gnus.el file.
|
|
|
2411 At the shell prompt emacs -q --no-site-file <= don't load users .emacs or site-
|
|
|
2412 file
|
|
|
2413 M-x byte-compile-file "/tmp/bench.el"
|
|
|
2414 M-x load-file "/tmp/bench.elc"
|
|
|
2415 In the scratch buffer (bench 1)
|
|
|
2416
|
|
|
2417
|
|
|
2418 All bench marks must be named bench-mark-<something>
|
|
|
2419 Results are put in bench-mark-<something-times which is a list of
|
|
|
2420 times for the runs.
|
|
|
2421 If the bench mark is not simple then there needs to be a
|
|
|
2422 corresponding bench-handler-<something>
|
|
|
2423 *** utils/blessmail.el
|
|
|
2424 Commentary:
|
|
|
2425
|
|
|
2426 This is loaded into a bare Emacs to create the blessmail script,
|
|
|
2427 which (on systems that need it) is used during installation
|
|
|
2428 to give appropriate permissions to movemail.
|
|
|
2429
|
|
|
2430 It has to be done from lisp in order to be sure of getting the
|
|
|
2431 correct value of rmail-spool-directory.
|
|
|
2432 *** utils/browse-cltl2.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2433 *** utils/browse-url.el
|
|
|
2434 Commentary:
|
|
|
2435
|
|
|
2436 This package provides functions which read a URL (Uniform Resource
|
|
|
2437 Locator) from the minibuffer, defaulting to the URL around point,
|
|
|
2438 and ask a World-Wide Web browser to load it. It can also load the
|
|
|
2439 URL associated with the current buffer. Different browsers use
|
|
|
2440 different methods of remote control so there is one function for
|
|
|
2441 each supported browser. If the chosen browser is not running, it
|
|
|
2442 is started. Currently there is support for:
|
|
|
2443
|
|
|
2444 *** utils/crontab.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2445 *** utils/delbackspace.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2446 *** utils/derived.el
|
|
|
2447 Commentary:
|
|
|
2448
|
|
|
2449 GNU Emacs is already, in a sense, object oriented -- each object
|
|
|
2450 (buffer) belongs to a class (major mode), and that class defines
|
|
|
2451 the relationship between messages (input events) and methods
|
|
|
2452 (commands) by means of a keymap.
|
|
|
2453
|
|
|
2454 In the mean time, this package offers most of the advantages of
|
|
|
2455 full inheritance with the existing major modes. The macro
|
|
|
2456 `define-derived-mode' allows the user to make a variant of an existing
|
|
|
2457 major mode, with its own keymap. The new mode will inherit the key
|
|
|
2458 bindings of its parent, and will, in fact, run its parent first
|
|
|
2459 every time it is called. For example, the commands
|
|
|
2460 *** utils/detached-minibuf.el
|
|
|
2461 Commentary:
|
|
|
2462
|
|
|
2463 WARNING. DANGER. This file reportedly crashes 19.14, use it only with a
|
|
|
2464 recent XEmacs.
|
|
|
2465
|
|
|
2466 Version: 1.1
|
|
|
2467 *** utils/docref.el
|
|
|
2468 Commentary:
|
|
|
2469
|
|
|
2470 This package allows you to use a simple form of cross references in
|
|
|
2471 your Emacs Lisp documentation strings. Cross-references look like
|
|
|
2472 \\(type@[label@]data), where type defines a method for retrieving
|
|
|
2473 reference informatin, data is used by a method routine as an argument,
|
|
|
2474 and label "represents" the reference in text. If label is absent, data
|
|
|
2475 is used instead.
|
|
|
2476 *** utils/easymenu.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2477 *** utils/edmacro.el
|
|
|
2478 Commentary:
|
|
|
2479
|
|
|
2480 Usage:
|
|
|
2481
|
|
|
2482 The `C-x C-k' (`edit-kbd-macro') command edits a keyboard macro
|
|
|
2483 in a special buffer. It prompts you to type a key sequence,
|
|
|
2484 which should be one of:
|
|
|
2485 *** utils/eldoc.el
|
|
|
2486 Commentary:
|
|
|
2487
|
|
|
2488 This program was inspired by the behavior of the "mouse documentation
|
|
|
2489 window" on many Lisp Machine systems; as you type a function's symbol
|
|
|
2490 name as part of a sexp, it will print the argument list for that
|
|
|
2491 function. Behavior is not identical; for example, you need not actually
|
|
|
2492 type the function name, you need only move point around in a sexp that
|
|
|
2493 calls it. Also, if point is over a documented variable, it will print
|
|
|
2494 the one-line documentation for that variable instead, to remind you of
|
|
|
2495 that variable's meaning.
|
|
|
2496 *** utils/elp.el
|
|
|
2497 Commentary:
|
|
|
2498
|
|
|
2499 If you want to profile a bunch of functions, set elp-function-list
|
|
|
2500 to the list of symbols, then do a M-x elp-instrument-list. This
|
|
|
2501 hacks those functions so that profiling information is recorded
|
|
|
2502 whenever they are called. To print out the current results, use
|
|
|
2503 M-x elp-results. If you want output to go to standard-output
|
|
|
2504 instead of a separate buffer, setq elp-use-standard-output to
|
|
|
2505 non-nil. With elp-reset-after-results set to non-nil, profiling
|
|
|
2506 information will be reset whenever the results are displayed. You
|
|
|
2507 can also reset all profiling info at any time with M-x
|
|
|
2508 elp-reset-all.
|
|
|
2509 *** utils/facemenu.el
|
|
|
2510 Commentary:
|
|
|
2511
|
|
|
2512 This file defines a menu of faces (bold, italic, etc) which allows you to
|
|
|
2513 set the face used for a region of the buffer. Some faces also have
|
|
|
2514 keybindings, which are shown in the menu. Faces with names beginning with
|
|
|
2515 "fg:" or "bg:", as in "fg:red", are treated specially.
|
|
|
2516 Such faces are assumed to consist only of a foreground (if "fg:") or
|
|
|
2517 background (if "bg:") color. They are thus put into the color submenus
|
|
|
2518 rather than the general Face submenu. These faces can also be
|
|
|
2519 automatically created by selecting the "Other..." menu items in the
|
|
|
2520 "Foreground" and "Background" submenus.
|
|
|
2521 *** utils/find-gc.el
|
|
|
2522 Commentary:
|
|
|
2523
|
|
|
2524 Produce in unsafe-list the set of all functions that may invoke GC.
|
|
|
2525 This expects the Emacs sources to live in emacs-source-directory.
|
|
|
2526 It creates a temporary working directory /tmp/esrc.
|
|
|
2527 *** utils/finder.el
|
|
|
2528 Commentary:
|
|
|
2529
|
|
|
2530 This mode uses the Keywords library header to provide code-finding
|
|
|
2531 services by keyword.
|
|
|
2532 *** utils/floating-toolbar.el
|
|
|
2533 Commentary:
|
|
|
2534
|
|
|
2535 The command `floating-toolbar' pops up a small frame
|
|
|
2536 containing a toolbar. The command should be bound to a
|
|
|
2537 button-press event. If the mouse press happens over an
|
|
|
2538 extent that has a non-nil 'floating-toolbar property, the
|
|
|
2539 value of that property is the toolbar instantiator that will
|
|
|
2540 be displayed. Otherwise the toolbar displayed is taken from
|
|
|
2541 the variable `floating-toolbar'. This variable can be made
|
|
|
2542 buffer local to produce buffer local floating toolbars.
|
|
|
2543 *** utils/flow-ctrl.el
|
|
|
2544 Commentary:
|
|
|
2545
|
|
|
2546 Terminals that use XON/XOFF flow control can cause problems with
|
|
|
2547 GNU Emacs users. This file contains Emacs Lisp code that makes it
|
|
|
2548 easy for a user to deal with this problem, when using such a
|
|
|
2549 terminal.
|
|
|
2550
|
|
|
2551 *** utils/foldout.el
|
|
|
2552 Commentary:
|
|
|
2553
|
|
|
2554 This file provides folding editor extensions for outline-mode and
|
|
|
2555 outline-minor-mode buffers. What's a "folding editor"? Read on...
|
|
|
2556
|
|
|
2557 Imagine you're in an outline-mode buffer and you've hidden all the text and
|
|
|
2558 subheadings under your level-1 headings. You now want to look at the stuff
|
|
|
2559 hidden under one of these headings. Normally you'd do C-c C-e (show-entry)
|
|
|
2560 to expose the body or C-c C-i to expose the child (level-2) headings.
|
|
|
2561
|
|
|
2562 With foldout, you do C-c C-z (foldout-zoom-subtree). This exposes the body
|
|
|
2563 and child subheadings and narrows the buffer so that only the level-1
|
|
|
2564 heading, the body and the level-2 headings are visible. If you now want to
|
|
|
2565 look under one of the level-2 headings, position the cursor on it and do C-c
|
|
|
2566 C-z again. This exposes the level-2 body and its level-3 child subheadings
|
|
|
2567 and narrows the buffer again. You can keep on zooming in on successive
|
|
|
2568 subheadings as much as you like. A string in the modeline tells you how
|
|
|
2569 deep you've gone.
|
|
|
2570 *** utils/forms-d2.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2571 *** utils/forms-pass.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2572 *** utils/forms.el
|
|
|
2573 Commentary:
|
|
|
2574
|
|
|
2575 Visit a file using a form.
|
|
|
2576
|
|
|
2577 Forms mode means visiting a data file which is supposed to consist
|
|
|
2578 of records each containing a number of fields. The records are
|
|
|
2579 separated by a newline, the fields are separated by a user-defined
|
|
|
2580 field separator (default: TAB).
|
|
|
2581 When shown, a record is transferred to an Emacs buffer and
|
|
|
2582 presented using a user-defined form. One record is shown at a
|
|
|
2583 time.
|
|
|
2584 *** utils/frame-icon.el
|
|
|
2585 Commentary:
|
|
|
2586 *** utils/hide-copyleft.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2587 *** utils/highlight-headers.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2588 *** utils/id-select.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2589 *** utils/lib-complete.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2590 *** utils/live-icon.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2591 *** utils/loadhist.el
|
|
|
2592 Commentary:
|
|
|
2593
|
|
|
2594 These functions exploit the load-history system variable.
|
|
|
2595 *** utils/mail-extr.el
|
|
|
2596 Commentary:
|
|
|
2597
|
|
|
2598 mail-extract-address-components: (address)
|
|
|
2599
|
|
|
2600 Given an RFC-822 ADDRESS, extract full name and canonical address.
|
|
|
2601 Returns a list of the form (FULL-NAME CANONICAL-ADDRESS).
|
|
|
2602 If no name can be extracted, FULL-NAME will be nil.
|
|
|
2603 ADDRESS may be a string or a buffer. If it is a buffer, the visible
|
|
|
2604 (narrowed) portion of the buffer will be interpreted as the address.
|
|
|
2605 (This feature exists so that the clever caller might be able to avoid
|
|
|
2606 consing a string.)
|
|
|
2607 If ADDRESS contains more than one RFC-822 address, only the first is
|
|
|
2608 returned.
|
|
|
2609
|
|
|
2610 *** utils/mail-utils.el
|
|
|
2611 Commentary:
|
|
|
2612
|
|
|
2613 Utility functions for mail and netnews handling. These handle fine
|
|
|
2614 points of header parsing.
|
|
|
2615 *** utils/mailpost.el
|
|
|
2616 Commentary:
|
|
|
2617
|
|
|
2618 Yet another mail interface. this for the rmail system to provide
|
|
|
2619 the missing sendmail interface on systems without /usr/lib/sendmail,
|
|
|
2620 but with /usr/uci/post.
|
|
|
2621 *** utils/map-ynp.el
|
|
|
2622 Commentary:
|
|
|
2623
|
|
|
2624 map-y-or-n-p is a general-purpose question-asking function.
|
|
|
2625 It asks a series of y/n questions (a la y-or-n-p), and decides to
|
|
|
2626 applies an action to each element of a list based on the answer.
|
|
|
2627 The nice thing is that you also get some other possible answers
|
|
|
2628 to use, reminiscent of query-replace: ! to answer y to all remaining
|
|
|
2629 questions; ESC or q to answer n to all remaining questions; . to answer
|
|
|
2630 y once and then n for the remainder; and you can get help with C-h.
|
|
|
2631 *** utils/meese.el
|
|
|
2632 Commentary:
|
|
|
2633 This file is grossly misnamed. It should be called reno.el.
|
|
|
2634 *** utils/passwd.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2635 *** utils/pp.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
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2636 *** utils/pretty-print.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2637 *** utils/redo.el
|
|
|
2638 Commentary:
|
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|
2639
|
|
|
2640 Emacs' normal undo system allows you to undo an arbitrary
|
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|
2641 number of buffer changes. These undos are recorded as ordinary
|
|
|
2642 buffer changes themselves. So when you break the chain of
|
|
|
2643 undos by issuing some other command, you can then undo all
|
|
|
2644 the undos. The chain of recorded buffer modifications
|
|
|
2645 therefore grows without bound, truncated only at garbage
|
|
|
2646 collection time.
|
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|
2647
|
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|
2648 *** utils/regi.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2649 *** utils/reporter.el
|
|
|
2650 Commentary:
|
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|
2651 Lisp Package Authors
|
|
|
2652 ====================
|
|
|
2653 Reporter was written primarily for Emacs Lisp package authors so
|
|
|
2654 that their users can easily report bugs. When invoked,
|
|
|
2655 reporter-submit-bug-report will set up an outgoing mail buffer with
|
|
|
2656 the appropriate bug report address, including a lisp expression the
|
|
|
2657 maintainer of the package can eval to completely reproduce the
|
|
|
2658 environment in which the bug was observed (e.g. by using
|
|
|
2659 eval-last-sexp). This package proved especially useful during my
|
|
|
2660 development of cc-mode, which is highly dependent on its
|
|
|
2661 configuration variables.
|
|
|
2662 *** utils/rfc822.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2663 *** utils/ring.el
|
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|
2664 Commentary:
|
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|
2665
|
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|
2666 This code defines a ring data structure. A ring is a
|
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|
2667 (hd-index length . vector)
|
|
|
2668 list. You can insert to, remove from, and rotate a ring. When the ring
|
|
|
2669 fills up, insertions cause the oldest elts to be quietly dropped.
|
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|
2670 *** utils/shadowfile.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2671 *** utils/skeleton.el
|
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|
2672 Commentary:
|
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2673
|
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|
2674 A very concise language extension for writing structured statement
|
|
|
2675 skeleton insertion commands for programming language modes. This
|
|
|
2676 originated in shell-script mode and was applied to ada-mode's
|
|
|
2677 commands which shrunk to one third. And these commands are now
|
|
|
2678 user configurable.
|
|
|
2679 *** utils/smtpmail.el
|
|
|
2680 Commentary:
|
|
|
2681
|
|
|
2682 Send Mail to smtp host from smtpmail temp buffer.
|
|
|
2683 *** utils/soundex.el
|
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|
2684 Commentary:
|
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|
2685
|
|
|
2686 The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of
|
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|
2687 how they sound. Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string.
|
|
|
2688 *** utils/speedbar.el
|
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|
2689 Commentary:
|
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|
2690
|
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|
2691 The speedbar provides a frame in which files, and locations in
|
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|
2692 files are displayed. These items can be clicked on with mouse-2
|
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|
2693 in order to make the last active frame display that file location.
|
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|
2694 *** utils/symbol-syntax.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2695 *** utils/sysdep.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2696 *** utils/text-props.el
|
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|
2697 Commentary:
|
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|
2698
|
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|
2699 This is a nearly complete implementation of the FSF19 text properties API.
|
|
|
2700 Please let me know if you notice any differences in behavior between
|
|
|
2701 this implementation and the FSF implementation.
|
|
|
2702 *** utils/thing.el Can't find any Commentary section
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2703 *** utils/timezone.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
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|
2704 *** utils/tq.el
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|
2705 Commentary:
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2706
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|
2707 manages receiving a stream asynchronously,
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|
2708 parsing it into transactions, and then calling
|
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|
2709 handler functions
|
|
|
2710
|
|
|
2711 Our basic structure is the queue/process/buffer triple. Each entry
|
|
|
2712 of the queue is a regexp/closure/function triple. We buffer
|
|
|
2713 bytes from the process until we see the regexp at the head of the
|
|
|
2714 queue. Then we call the function with the closure and the
|
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|
2715 collected bytes.
|
|
|
2716 *** utils/trace.el
|
|
|
2717 Commentary:
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|
2718
|
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|
2719 A simple trace package that utilizes advice.el. It generates trace
|
|
|
2720 information in a Lisp-style fashion and inserts it into a trace output
|
|
|
2721 buffer. Tracing can be done in the background (or silently) so that
|
|
|
2722 generation of trace output won't interfere with what you are currently
|
|
|
2723 doing.
|
|
|
2724 *** utils/tree-menu.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2725 *** utils/uniquify.el
|
|
|
2726 Commentary:
|
|
|
2727
|
|
|
2728 Emacs's standard method for making buffer names unique adds <2>, <3>,
|
|
|
2729 etc. to the end of (all but one of) the buffers. This file replaces
|
|
|
2730 that behavior, for buffers visiting files and dired buffers, with a
|
|
|
2731 uniquification that adds parts of the file name until the buffer names
|
|
|
2732 are unique. For instance, buffers visiting /u/mernst/tmp/Makefile and
|
|
|
2733 /usr/projects/zaphod/Makefile would be named Makefile|tmp and
|
|
|
2734 Makefile|zaphod, respectively (instead of Makefile and Makefile<2>).
|
|
|
2735 Other buffer name styles are also available.
|
|
|
2736 *** utils/xbm-button.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2737 *** utils/xpm-button.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2738
|
|
|
2739 ** viper - VI emulator
|
|
|
2740 *** viper/viper-ex.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2741 *** viper/viper-init.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2742 *** viper/viper-keym.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2743 *** viper/viper-macs.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2744 *** viper/viper-mous.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2745 *** viper/viper-util.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2746 *** viper/viper.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2747
|
|
|
2748 ** vm - Mail reader
|
|
|
2749 See the online documentation.
|
|
|
2750
|
|
|
2751 ** vms - Stuff for Emacs under VMS
|
|
|
2752 vms/vms-patch.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2753 *** vms/vmsproc.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2754 *** vms/vmsx.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2755
|
|
|
2756 ** w3 - World Wide Web browser under Emacs
|
|
|
2757 See the online documentation.
|
|
|
2758
|
|
|
2759 ** x11 - X11 specific stuff: compose keys, menubars, toolbar, ...
|
|
|
2760 *** x11/x-compose.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2761 *** x11/x-faces.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2762 *** x11/x-font-menu.el
|
|
|
2763 Commentary:
|
|
|
2764
|
|
|
2765 Creates three menus, "Font", "Size", and "Weight", and puts them on the
|
|
|
2766 "Options" menu. The contents of these menus are the superset of those
|
|
|
2767 properties available on any fonts, but only the intersection of the three
|
|
|
2768 sets is selectable at one time.
|
|
|
2769 *** x11/x-init.el
|
|
|
2770 Commentary:
|
|
|
2771 *** x11/x-iso8859-1.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2772 *** x11/x-menubar.el
|
|
|
2773 Commentary:
|
|
|
2774 *** x11/x-misc.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2775 *** x11/x-mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2776 *** x11/x-scrollbar.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2777 *** x11/x-select.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2778 *** x11/x-toolbar.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2779 *** x11/x-win-sun.el
|
|
|
2780 Commentary:
|
|
|
2781
|
|
|
2782 This file is loaded by x-win.el at run-time when we are sure that XEmacs
|
|
|
2783 is running on the display of a Sun.
|
|
|
2784
|
|
|
2785 The Sun X server (both the MIT and OpenWindows varieties) have extremely
|
|
|
2786 stupid names for their keypad and function keys. For example, the key
|
|
|
2787 labeled 3 / PgDn, with R15 written on the front, is actually called F35.
|
|
|
2788 *** x11/x-win-xfree86.el Can't find any Commentary section
|
|
|
2789
|
|
|
2790
|
|
|
2791 * What Changed
|
|
|
2792 ===================
|
|
|
2793
|
|
|
2794
|
|
|
2795 ** Differences between XEmacs and GNU Emacs 19
|
|
|
2796 ==================================================
|
|
|
2797
|
|
|
2798 In XEmacs, events are first-class objects. FSF 19 represents them as
|
|
|
2799 integers, which obscures the differences between a key gesture and the
|
|
|
2800 ancient ASCII code used to represent a particular overlapping subset of them.
|
|
|
2801
|
|
|
2802 In XEmacs, keymaps are first-class opaque objects. FSF 19 represents them as
|
|
|
2803 complicated combinations of association lists and vectors. If you use the
|
|
|
2804 advertised functional interface to manipulation of keymaps, the same code
|
|
|
2805 will work in XEmacs, Emacs 18, and GNU Emacs 19; if your code depends
|
|
|
2806 on the underlying implementation of keymaps, it will not.
|
|
|
2807
|
|
|
2808 XEmacs uses "extents" to represent all non-textual aspects of buffers;
|
|
|
2809 FSF 19 uses two distinct objects, "text properties" and "overlays",
|
|
|
2810 which divide up the functionality between them. Extents are a
|
|
|
2811 superset of the functionality of the two FSF data types. The full FSF
|
|
|
2812 19 interface to text properties is supported in XEmacs (with extents
|
|
|
2813 being the underlying representation).
|
|
|
2814
|
|
|
2815 Extents can be made to be copied into strings, and thus restored by kill
|
|
|
2816 and yank. Thus, one can specify this behavior on either "extents" or
|
|
|
2817 "text properties", whereas in FSF 19 text properties always have this
|
|
|
2818 behavior and overlays never do.
|
|
|
2819
|
|
|
2820 Many more packages are provided standard with XEmacs than with FSF 19.
|
|
|
2821
|
|
|
2822 Pixmaps of arbitrary size can be embedded in a buffer.
|
|
|
2823
|
|
|
2824 Variable width fonts work.
|
|
|
2825
|
|
|
2826 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font on that line, instead
|
|
|
2827 of all lines having the same height.
|
|
|
2828
|
|
|
2829 XEmacs uses the MIT "Xt" toolkit instead of raw Xlib calls, which
|
|
|
2830 makes it be a more well-behaved X citizen (and also improves
|
|
|
2831 portability). A result of this is that it is possible to include
|
|
|
2832 other Xt "Widgets" in the XEmacs window. Also, XEmacs understands the
|
|
|
2833 standard Xt command-line arguments.
|
|
|
2834
|
|
|
2835 XEmacs provides support for ToolTalk on systems that have it.
|
|
|
2836
|
|
|
2837 XEmacs can ask questions using popup dialog boxes. Any command executed from
|
|
|
2838 a menu will ask yes/no questions with dialog boxes, while commands executed
|
|
|
2839 via the keyboard will use the minibuffer.
|
|
|
2840
|
|
|
2841 XEmacs has a built-in toolbar. Four toolbars can actually be configured:
|
|
|
2842 top, bottom, left, and right toolbars.
|
|
|
2843
|
|
|
2844 XEmacs has vertical and horizontal scrollbars. Unlike in FSF 19 (which
|
|
|
2845 provides a primitive form of vertical scrollbar), these are true toolkit
|
|
|
2846 scrollbars. A look-alike Motif scrollbar is provided for those who
|
|
|
2847 don't have Motif. (Even for those who do, the look-alike may be preferable
|
|
|
2848 as it is faster.)
|
|
|
2849
|
|
|
2850 If you're running on a machine with audio hardware, you can specify sound
|
|
|
2851 files for XEmacs to play instead of the default X beep. See the documentation
|
|
|
2852 of the function load-sound-file and the variable sound-alist.
|
|
|
2853
|
|
|
2854 An XEmacs frame can be placed within an "external client widget" managed by
|
|
|
2855 another application. This allows an application to use an XEmacs frame as its
|
|
|
2856 text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided with Motif or
|
|
|
2857 Athena. XEmacs supports Motif applications, generic Xt (e.g. Athena)
|
|
|
2858 applications, and raw Xlib applications.
|
|
|
2859
|
|
|
2860 Here are some more specifics about the XEmacs implementation:
|
|
|
2861
|
|
|
2862 *** The Input Model
|
|
|
2863 -------------------
|
|
|
2864
|
|
|
2865 The fundamental unit of input is an "event" instead of a character. An
|
|
|
2866 event is a new data type that contains several pieces of information.
|
|
|
2867 There are several kinds of event, and corresponding accessor and utility
|
|
|
2868 functions. We tried to abstract them so that they would apply equally
|
|
|
2869 well to a number of window systems.
|
|
|
2870
|
|
|
2871 NOTE: All timestamps are measured as milliseconds since Emacs started.
|
|
|
2872
|
|
|
2873 key_press_event
|
|
|
2874 event_channel A token representing which keyboard generated it.
|
|
|
2875 For this kind of event, this is a frame object.
|
|
|
2876 (This is for eventual support of multiple displays.)
|
|
|
2877 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2878 key What keysym this is; an integer or a symbol.
|
|
|
2879 If this is an integer, it will be in the printing
|
|
|
2880 ASCII range: >32 and <127.
|
|
|
2881 modifiers Bucky-bits on that key: control, meta, etc.
|
|
|
2882 For most keys, Shift is not a bit; that is implicit
|
|
|
2883 in the keyboard layout.
|
|
|
2884
|
|
|
2885 button_press_event
|
|
|
2886 button_release_event
|
|
|
2887 event_channel A token representing which mouse generated it.
|
|
|
2888 For this kind of event, this is a frame object.
|
|
|
2889 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2890 button What button went down or up.
|
|
|
2891 modifiers Bucky-bits on that button: shift, control, meta, etc.
|
|
|
2892 x, y Where it was at the button-state-change (in pixels).
|
|
|
2893
|
|
|
2894 pointer_motion_event
|
|
|
2895 event_channel A token representing which mouse generated it.
|
|
|
2896 For this kind of event, this is a frame object.
|
|
|
2897 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2898 x, y Where it was after it moved (in pixels).
|
|
|
2899 modifiers Bucky-bits down when the motion was detected.
|
|
|
2900 (Possibly not all window systems will provide this?)
|
|
|
2901
|
|
|
2902 process_event
|
|
|
2903 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2904 process the emacs "process" object in question
|
|
|
2905
|
|
|
2906 timeout_event
|
|
|
2907 timestamp Now (really, when the timeout was signaled)
|
|
|
2908 interval_id The ID returned when the associated call to
|
|
|
2909 add_timeout_cb() was made
|
|
|
2910 ------ the rest of the fields are filled in by Emacs -----
|
|
|
2911 id_number The Emacs timeout ID for this timeout (more
|
|
|
2912 than one timeout event can have the same value
|
|
|
2913 here, since Emacs timeouts, as opposed to
|
|
|
2914 add_timeout_cb() timeouts, can resignal
|
|
|
2915 themselves)
|
|
|
2916 function An elisp function to call when this timeout is
|
|
|
2917 processed.
|
|
|
2918 object The object passed to that function.
|
|
|
2919
|
|
|
2920 eval_event
|
|
|
2921 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2922 function An elisp function to call with this event object.
|
|
|
2923 object Anything.
|
|
|
2924 This kind of event is used internally; sometimes the
|
|
|
2925 window system interface would like to inform emacs of
|
|
|
2926 some user action (such as focusing on another frame)
|
|
|
2927 but needs that to happen synchronously with the other
|
|
|
2928 user input, like keypresses. This is useful when
|
|
|
2929 events are reported through callbacks rather
|
|
|
2930 than in the standard event stream.
|
|
|
2931
|
|
|
2932 misc_user_event
|
|
|
2933 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2934 function An elisp function to call with this event object.
|
|
|
2935 object Anything.
|
|
|
2936 This is similar to an eval_event, except that it is
|
|
|
2937 generated by user actions: selections in the
|
|
|
2938 menubar or scrollbar actions. It is a "command"
|
|
|
2939 event, like key and mouse presses (and unlike mouse
|
|
|
2940 motion, process output, and enter and leave window
|
|
|
2941 hooks). In many ways, eval_events are not the same
|
|
|
2942 as keypresses or misc_user_events.
|
|
|
2943
|
|
|
2944 magic_event
|
|
|
2945 No user-serviceable parts within. This is for things
|
|
|
2946 like KeymapNotify and ExposeRegion events and so on
|
|
|
2947 that emacs itself doesn't care about, but which it
|
|
|
2948 must do something with for proper interaction with
|
|
|
2949 the window system.
|
|
|
2950
|
|
|
2951 Magic_events are handled somewhat asynchronously, just
|
|
|
2952 like subprocess filters. However, occasionally a
|
|
|
2953 magic_event needs to be handled synchronously; in that
|
|
|
2954 case, the asynchronous handling of the magic_event will
|
|
|
2955 push an eval_event back onto the queue, which will be
|
|
|
2956 handled synchronously later. This is one of the
|
|
|
2957 reasons why eval_events exist; I'm not entirely happy
|
|
|
2958 with this aspect of this event model.
|
|
|
2959
|
|
|
2960
|
|
|
2961 The function `next-event' blocks and returns one of the above-described
|
|
|
2962 event objects. The function `dispatch-event' takes an event and processes
|
|
|
2963 it in the appropriate way.
|
|
|
2964
|
|
|
2965 For a process-event, dispatch-event calls the process's handler; for a
|
|
|
2966 mouse-motion event, the mouse-motion-handler hook is called, and so on.
|
|
|
2967 For magic-events, dispatch-event does window-system-dependent things,
|
|
|
2968 including calling some non-window-system-dependent hooks: map-frame-hook,
|
|
|
2969 unmap-frame-hook, mouse-enter-frame-hook, and mouse-leave-frame-hook.
|
|
|
2970
|
|
|
2971 The function `next-command-event' calls `next-event' until it gets a key or
|
|
|
2972 button from the user (that is, not a process, motion, timeout, or magic
|
|
|
2973 event). If it gets an event that is not a key or button, it calls
|
|
|
2974 `dispatch-event' on it immediately and reads another one. The
|
|
|
2975 next-command-event function could be implemented in Emacs Lisp, though it
|
|
|
2976 isn't. Generally one should call `next-command-event' instead of
|
|
|
2977 `next-event'.
|
|
|
2978
|
|
|
2979 read-char calls next-command-event; if it doesn't get an event that can be
|
|
|
2980 converted to an ASCII character, it signals an error. Otherwise it returns
|
|
|
2981 an integer.
|
|
|
2982
|
|
|
2983 The variable `last-command-char' always contains an integer, or nil (if the
|
|
|
2984 last read event has no ASCII equivalent, as when it is a mouse-click or a
|
|
|
2985 non-ASCII character chord.)
|
|
|
2986
|
|
|
2987 The new variable `last-command-event' holds an event object, that could be
|
|
|
2988 a non-ASCII character, a button click, a menu selection, etc.
|
|
|
2989
|
|
|
2990 The variable `unread-command-char' no longer exists, and has been replaced
|
|
|
2991 by `unread-command-events'. With the new event model, it is incorrect for
|
|
|
2992 code to do (setq unread-command-char (read-char)), because all user-input
|
|
|
2993 can't be represented as ASCII characters. *** This is an incompatible
|
|
|
2994 change. Code which sets `unread-command-char' must be updated to use the
|
|
|
2995 combination of `next-command-event' and `unread-command-events' instead.
|
|
|
2996
|
|
|
2997 The functions `this-command-keys' and `recent-keys' return a vector of
|
|
|
2998 event objects, instead of a string of ASCII characters. *** This also
|
|
|
2999 is an incompatible change.
|
|
|
3000
|
|
|
3001 Almost nothing happens at interrupt level; the SIGIO handler simply sets a
|
|
|
3002 flag, and later, the X event queue is scanned for KeyPress events which map
|
|
|
3003 to ^G. All redisplay happens in the main thread of the process.
|
|
|
3004
|
|
|
3005
|
|
|
3006 *** Keymaps
|
|
|
3007 -----------
|
|
|
3008
|
|
|
3009 Instead of keymaps being alists or obarrays, they are a new primary data
|
|
|
3010 type. The only user access to the contents of a keymap is through the
|
|
|
3011 existing keymap-manipulation functions, and a new function, map-keymap.
|
|
|
3012 This means that existing code that manipulates keymaps may need to
|
|
|
3013 be changed.
|
|
|
3014
|
|
|
3015 One of our goals with the new input and keymap code was to make more
|
|
|
3016 character combinations available for binding, besides just ASCII and
|
|
|
3017 function keys. We want to be able bind different commands to Control-a
|
|
|
3018 and Control-Shift-a; we also want it to be possible for the keys Control-h
|
|
|
3019 and Backspace (and Control-M and Return, and Control-I and Tab, etc) to
|
|
|
3020 be distinct.
|
|
|
3021
|
|
|
3022 One of the most common complaints that new Emacs users have is that backspace
|
|
|
3023 is help. The answer is to play around with the keyboard-translate-table, or
|
|
|
3024 be lucky enough to have a system administrator who has done this for you
|
|
|
3025 already; but if it were possible to bind backspace and C-h to different
|
|
|
3026 things, then (under a window manager at least) both backspace and delete
|
|
|
3027 would delete a character, and ^H would be help. There's no need to deal
|
|
|
3028 with xmodmap, kbd-translate-table, etc.
|
|
|
3029
|
|
|
3030 Here are some more examples: suppose you want to bind one function to Tab,
|
|
|
3031 and another to Control-Tab. This can't be done if Tab and Control-I are the
|
|
|
3032 same thing. What about control keys that have no ASCII equivalent, like
|
|
|
3033 Control-< ? One might want that to be bound to set-mark-at-point-min. We
|
|
|
3034 want M-C-Backspace to be kill-backward-sexp. But we want M-Backspace to be
|
|
|
3035 kill-backward-word. Again, this can't be done if Backspace and C-h are
|
|
|
3036 indistinguishable.
|
|
|
3037
|
|
|
3038 The user represents keys as a string of ASCII characters (when possible and
|
|
|
3039 convenient), or as a vector of event objects, or as a vector of "key
|
|
|
3040 description lists", that looks like (control a), or (control meta delete)
|
|
|
3041 or (shift f1). The order of the modifier-names is not significant, so
|
|
|
3042 (meta control x) and (control meta x) are the same.
|
|
|
3043
|
|
|
3044 `define-key' knows how to take any of the above representations and store them
|
|
|
3045 into a keymap. When Emacs wants to return a key sequence (this-command-keys,
|
|
|
3046 recent-keys, keyboard-macros, and read-key-sequence, for example) it returns
|
|
|
3047 a vector of event objects. Keyboard macros can also be represented as ASCII
|
|
|
3048 strings or as vectors of key description lists.
|
|
|
3049
|
|
|
3050 This is an incompatible change: code which calls `this-command-keys',
|
|
|
3051 `recent-keys', `read-key-sequence', or manipulates keyboard-macros probably
|
|
|
3052 needs to be changed so that it no longer assumes that the returned value is a
|
|
|
3053 string.
|
|
|
3054
|
|
|
3055 Control-Shift-a is specified as (control A), not (control shift a), since A
|
|
|
3056 is a two-case character. But for keys that don't have an upper case
|
|
|
3057 version, like F1, Backspace, and Escape, you use the (shift backspace) syntax.
|
|
|
3058
|
|
|
3059 See the doc string for our version of define-key, reproduced below in the
|
|
|
3060 `Changed Functions' section. Note that when the KEYS argument is a string,
|
|
|
3061 it has the same semantics as the v18 define-key.
|
|
|
3062
|
|
|
3063
|
|
|
3064 *** Xt Integration
|
|
|
3065 ------------------
|
|
|
3066
|
|
|
3067 The heart of the event loop is implemented in terms of the Xt event functions
|
|
|
3068 (specifically XtAppProcessEvent), and uses Xt's concept of timeouts and
|
|
|
3069 file-descriptor callbacks, eliminating a large amount of system-dependent code
|
|
|
3070 (Xt does it for you.)
|
|
|
3071
|
|
|
3072 If Emacs is compiled with support for X, it uses the Xt event loop even when
|
|
|
3073 Emacs is not running on an X display (the Xt event loop supports this). This
|
|
|
3074 makes it possible to run Emacs on a dumb TTY, and later connect it to one or
|
|
|
3075 more X servers. It should also be possible to later connect an existing Emacs
|
|
|
3076 process to additional TTY's, although this code is still experimental. (Our
|
|
|
3077 intent at this point is not to have an Emacs that is being used by multiple
|
|
|
3078 people at the same time: it is to make it possible for someone to go home, log
|
|
|
3079 in on a dialup line, and connect to the same Emacs process that is running
|
|
|
3080 under X in their office without having to recreate their buffer state and so
|
|
|
3081 on.)
|
|
|
3082
|
|
|
3083 If Emacs is not compiled with support for X, then it instead uses more general
|
|
|
3084 code, something like what v18 does; but this way of doing things is a lot more
|
|
|
3085 modular.
|
|
|
3086
|
|
|
3087 (Linking Emacs with Xt seems to only add about 300k to the executable size,
|
|
|
3088 compared with an Emacs linked with Xlib only.)
|
|
|
3089
|
|
|
3090
|
|
|
3091 *** Region Highlighting
|
|
|
3092 -----------------------
|
|
|
3093
|
|
|
3094 If the variable `zmacs-regions' is true, then the region between point and
|
|
|
3095 mark will be highlighted when "active". Those commands which push a mark
|
|
|
3096 (such as C-SPC, and C-x C-x) make the region become "active" and thus
|
|
|
3097 highlighted. Most commands (all non-motion commands, basically) cause it to
|
|
|
3098 become non-highlighted (non-"active"). Commands that operate on the region
|
|
|
3099 (such as C-w, C-x C-l, etc.) only work if the region is in the highlighted
|
|
|
3100 state.
|
|
|
3101
|
|
|
3102 zmacs-activate-region-hook and zmacs-deactivate-region-hook are run at the
|
|
|
3103 appropriate times; under X, zmacs-activate-region-hook makes the X selection
|
|
|
3104 be the region between point and mark, thus doing two things at once: making
|
|
|
3105 the region and the X selection be the same; and making the region highlight
|
|
|
3106 in the same way as the X selection.
|
|
|
3107
|
|
|
3108 If `zmacs-regions' is true, then the `mark-marker' command returns nil unless
|
|
|
3109 the region is currently in the active (highlighted) state. With an argument
|
|
|
3110 of t, this returns the mark (if there is one) regardless of the active-region
|
|
|
3111 state. You should *generally* not use the mark unless the region is active,
|
|
|
3112 if the user has expressed a preference for the active-region model. Watch
|
|
|
3113 out! Moving this marker changes the mark position. If you set the marker not
|
|
|
3114 to point anywhere, the buffer will have no mark.
|
|
|
3115
|
|
|
3116 In this way, the primary selection is a fairly transitory entity; but
|
|
|
3117 when something is copied to the kill ring, it is made the Clipboard
|
|
|
3118 selection. It is also stored into CUT_BUFFER0, for compatibility with
|
|
|
3119 X applications that don't understand selections (like Emacs18).
|
|
|
3120
|
|
|
3121 Compatibility note: if you have code which uses (mark) or (mark-marker),
|
|
|
3122 then you need to either: change those calls to (mark t) or (mark-marker t);
|
|
|
3123 or simply bind `zmacs-regions' to nil around the call to mark or mark-marker.
|
|
|
3124 This is probably the best solution, since it will work in Emacs 18 as well.
|
|
|
3125
|
|
|
3126
|
|
|
3127 *** Menubars and Dialog Boxes
|
|
|
3128 -----------------------------
|
|
|
3129
|
|
|
3130 Here is an example of a menubar definition:
|
|
|
3131
|
|
|
3132 (defvar default-menubar
|
|
|
3133 '(("File" ["Open File..." find-file t]
|
|
|
3134 ["Save Buffer" save-buffer t]
|
|
|
3135 ["Save Buffer As..." write-file t]
|
|
|
3136 ["Revert Buffer" revert-buffer t]
|
|
|
3137 "-----"
|
|
|
3138 ["Print Buffer" lpr-buffer t]
|
|
|
3139 "-----"
|
|
|
3140 ["Delete Frame" delete-frame t]
|
|
|
3141 ["Kill Buffer..." kill-buffer t]
|
|
|
3142 ["Exit Emacs" save-buffers-kill-emacs t]
|
|
|
3143 )
|
|
|
3144 ("Edit" ["Undo" advertised-undo t]
|
|
|
3145 ["Cut" kill-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
3146 ["Copy" copy-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
3147 ["Paste" yank-clipboard-selection t]
|
|
|
3148 ["Clear" delete-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
3149 )
|
|
|
3150 ...))
|
|
|
3151
|
|
|
3152 The first element of each menu item is the string to print on the menu.
|
|
|
3153
|
|
|
3154 The second element is the callback function; if it is a symbol, it is
|
|
|
3155 invoked with `call-interactively.' If it is a list, it is invoked with
|
|
|
3156 `eval'.
|
|
|
3157
|
|
|
3158 If the second element is a symbol, then the menu also displays the key that
|
|
|
3159 is bound to that command (if any).
|
|
|
3160
|
|
|
3161 The third element of the menu items determines whether the item is selectable.
|
|
|
3162 It may be t, nil, or a form to evaluate. Also, a hook is run just before a
|
|
|
3163 menu is exposed, which can be used to change the value of these slots.
|
|
|
3164 For example, there is a hook that makes the "undo" menu item be selectable
|
|
|
3165 only in the cases when `advertised-undo' would not signal an error.
|
|
|
3166
|
|
|
3167 Menus may have other menus nested within them; they will cascade.
|
|
|
3168
|
|
|
3169 There are utility functions for adding items to menus, deleting items,
|
|
|
3170 disabling them, etc.
|
|
|
3171
|
|
|
3172 The function `popup-menu' takes a menu description and pops it up.
|
|
|
3173
|
|
|
3174 The function `popup-dialog-box' takes a dialog-box description and pops
|
|
|
3175 it up. Dialog box descriptions look a lot like menu descriptions.
|
|
|
3176
|
|
|
3177 The menubar, menu, and dialog-box code is implemented as a library,
|
|
|
3178 with an interface which hides the toolkit that implements it.
|
|
|
3179
|
|
|
3180
|
|
|
3181 *** Isearch Changes
|
|
|
3182 -------------------
|
|
|
3183
|
|
|
3184 Isearch has been reimplemented in a different way, adding some new features,
|
|
|
3185 and causing a few incompatible changes.
|
|
|
3186
|
|
|
3187 - the old isearch-*-char variables are no longer supported. In the old
|
|
|
3188 system, one could make ^A mean "repeat the search" by doing something
|
|
|
3189 like (setq search-repeat-char ?C-a). In the new system, this is
|
|
|
3190 accomplished with
|
|
|
3191
|
|
|
3192 (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-a" 'isearch-repeat-forward)
|
|
|
3193
|
|
|
3194 - The advantage of using the normal keymap mechanism for this is that you
|
|
|
3195 can bind more than one key to an isearch command: for example, both C-a
|
|
|
3196 and C-s could do the same thing inside isearch mode. You can also bind
|
|
|
3197 multi-key sequences inside of isearch mode, and bind non-ASCII keys.
|
|
|
3198 For example, to use the F1 key to terminate a search:
|
|
|
3199
|
|
|
3200 (define-key isearch-mode-map 'f1 'isearch-exit)
|
|
|
3201
|
|
|
3202 or to make ``C-c C-c'' terminate a search:
|
|
|
3203
|
|
|
3204 (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-c\C-c" 'isearch-exit)
|
|
|
3205
|
|
|
3206 - If isearch is behaving case-insensitively (the default) and you type an
|
|
|
3207 upper case character, then the search will become case-sensitive. This
|
|
|
3208 can be disabled by setting `search-caps-disable-folding' to nil.
|
|
|
3209
|
|
|
3210 - There is a history ring of the strings previously searched for; typing
|
|
|
3211 M-p or M-n while searching will cycle through this ring. Typing M-TAB
|
|
|
3212 will do completion across the set of items in the history ring.
|
|
|
3213
|
|
|
3214 - The ESC key is no longer used to terminate an incremental search. The
|
|
|
3215 RET key should be used instead. This change is necessary for it to be
|
|
|
3216 possible to bind "meta" characters to isearch commands.
|
|
|
3217
|
|
|
3218
|
|
|
3219 *** Startup Code Changes
|
|
|
3220 ------------------------
|
|
|
3221
|
|
|
3222 The initial X frame is mapped before the user's .emacs file is executed.
|
|
|
3223 Without this, there is no way for the user to see any error messages
|
|
|
3224 generated by their .emacs file, any windows created by the .emacs file
|
|
|
3225 don't show up, and the copyleft notice isn't shown.
|
|
|
3226
|
|
|
3227 The default values for load-path, exec-path, lock-directory, and
|
|
|
3228 Info-directory-list are not (necessarily) built into Emacs, but are
|
|
|
3229 computed at startup time.
|
|
|
3230
|
|
|
3231 First, Emacs looks at the directory in which its executable file resides:
|
|
|
3232
|
|
|
3233 o If that directory contains subdirectories named "lisp" and "lib-src",
|
|
|
3234 then those directories are used as the lisp library and exec directory.
|
|
|
3235
|
|
|
3236 o If the parent of the directory in which the emacs executable is located
|
|
|
3237 contains "lisp" and "lib-src" subdirectories, then those are used.
|
|
|
3238
|
|
|
3239 o If ../lib/xemacs-<version> (starting from the directory in which the
|
|
|
3240 emacs executable is located) contains a "lisp" subdirectory and either
|
|
|
3241 a "lib-src" subdirectory or a <configuration-name> subdirectory, then
|
|
|
3242 those are used.
|
|
|
3243
|
|
|
3244 o If the emacs executable that was run is a symbolic link, then the link
|
|
|
3245 is chased, and the resultant directory is checked as above.
|
|
|
3246
|
|
|
3247 (Actually, it doesn't just look for "lisp/", it looks for "lisp/prim/",
|
|
|
3248 which reduces the chances of a false positive.)
|
|
|
3249
|
|
|
3250 If the lisp directory contains subdirectories, they are added to the default
|
|
|
3251 load-path as well. If the site-lisp directory exists and contains
|
|
|
3252 subdirectories, they are then added. Subdirectories whose names begin with
|
|
|
3253 a dot or a hyphen are not added to the load-path.
|
|
|
3254
|
|
|
3255 These heuristics fail if the Emacs binary was copied from the main Emacs
|
|
|
3256 tree to some other directory, and links for the lisp directory were not put
|
|
|
3257 in. This isn't much of a restriction: either make there be subdirectories
|
|
|
3258 (or symbolic links) of the directory of the emacs executable, or make the
|
|
|
3259 "installed" emacs executable be a symbolic link to an executable in a more
|
|
|
3260 appropriate directory structure. For example, this setup works:
|
|
|
3261
|
|
|
3262 /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs* ; The executable.
|
|
|
3263 /usr/local/xemacs/lisp/ ; The associated directories.
|
|
|
3264 /usr/local/xemacs/etc/ ; Any of the files in this list
|
|
|
3265 /usr/local/xemacs/lock/ ; could be symbolic links as well.
|
|
|
3266 /usr/local/xemacs/info/
|
|
|
3267
|
|
|
3268 As does this:
|
|
|
3269
|
|
|
3270 /usr/local/bin/xemacs -> ../xemacs/src/xemacs-19.14 ; A link...
|
|
|
3271 /usr/local/xemacs/src/xemacs-19.14* ; The executable,
|
|
|
3272 /usr/local/xemacs/lisp/ ; and the rest of
|
|
|
3273 /usr/local/xemacs/etc/ ; the source tree
|
|
|
3274 /usr/local/xemacs/lock/
|
|
|
3275 /usr/local/xemacs/info/
|
|
|
3276
|
|
|
3277 This configuration might be used for a multi-architecture installation; assume
|
|
|
3278 that $LOCAL refers to a directory which contains only files specific to a
|
|
|
3279 particular architecture (i.e., executables) and $SHARED refers to those files
|
|
|
3280 which are not machine specific (i.e., lisp code and documentation.)
|
|
|
3281
|
|
|
3282 $LOCAL/bin/xemacs@ -> $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/xemacs*
|
|
|
3283 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/lisp@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/lisp/
|
|
|
3284 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/etc@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/etc/
|
|
|
3285 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/info@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/info/
|
|
|
3286
|
|
|
3287 The following would also work, but the above is probably more attractive:
|
|
|
3288
|
|
|
3289 $LOCAL/bin/xemacs*
|
|
|
3290 $LOCAL/bin/lisp@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/lisp/
|
|
|
3291 $LOCAL/bin/etc@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/etc/
|
|
|
3292 $LOCAL/bin/info@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/info/
|
|
|
3293
|
|
|
3294 If Emacs can't find the requisite directories, it writes a message like this
|
|
|
3295 (or some appropriate subset of it) to stderr:
|
|
|
3296
|
|
|
3297 WARNING:
|
|
|
3298 couldn't find an obvious default for load-path, exec-directory, and
|
|
|
3299 lock-directory, and there were no defaults specified in paths.h when
|
|
|
3300 Emacs was built. Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the Emacs
|
|
|
3301 executable, /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/xemacs is in a strange place?
|
|
|
3302
|
|
|
3303 Without both exec-directory and load-path, Emacs will be very broken.
|
|
|
3304 Consider making a symbolic link from /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/etc
|
|
|
3305 to wherever the appropriate Emacs etc/ directory is, and from
|
|
|
3306 /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/lisp/ to wherever the appropriate Emacs
|
|
|
3307 lisp library is.
|
|
|
3308
|
|
|
3309 Without lock-directory set, file locking won't work. Consider
|
|
|
3310 creating /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/lock as a directory or symbolic
|
|
|
3311 link for use as the lock directory.
|
|
|
3312
|
|
|
3313 The default installation tree is the following:
|
|
|
3314
|
|
|
3315 /usr/local/bin/b2m ;
|
|
|
3316 ctags ; executables that
|
|
|
3317 emacsclient ; should be in
|
|
|
3318 etags ; user's path
|
|
|
3319 xemacs -> xemacs-<version> ;
|
|
|
3320 xemacs ;
|
|
|
3321 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp
|
|
|
3322 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock
|
|
|
3323 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/etc ; architecture ind. files
|
|
|
3324 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/info
|
|
|
3325 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/lisp
|
|
|
3326 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/<configuration> ; binaries emacs may run
|
|
|
3327
|
|
|
3328
|
|
|
3329 *** X Resources
|
|
|
3330 ---------------
|
|
|
3331
|
|
|
3332 (Note: This section is copied verbatim from the XEmacs Reference Manual.)
|
|
|
3333
|
|
|
3334 The Emacs resources are generally set per-frame. Each Emacs frame
|
|
|
3335 can have its own name or the same name as another, depending on the
|
|
|
3336 name passed to the `make-frame' function.
|
|
|
3337
|
|
|
3338 You can specify resources for all frames with the syntax:
|
|
|
3339
|
|
|
3340 Emacs*parameter: value
|
|
|
3341
|
|
|
3342 or
|
|
|
3343
|
|
|
3344 Emacs*EmacsFrame.parameter:value
|
|
|
3345
|
|
|
3346 You can specify resources for a particular frame with the syntax:
|
|
|
3347
|
|
|
3348 Emacs*FRAME-NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3349
|
|
|
3350
|
|
|
3351 **** Geometry Resources
|
|
|
3352 -----------------------
|
|
|
3353
|
|
|
3354 To make the default size of all Emacs frames be 80 columns by 55
|
|
|
3355 lines, do this:
|
|
|
3356
|
|
|
3357 Emacs*EmacsFrame.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3358
|
|
|
3359 To set the geometry of a particular frame named `fred', do this:
|
|
|
3360
|
|
|
3361 Emacs*fred.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3362
|
|
|
3363 Important! Do not use the following syntax:
|
|
|
3364
|
|
|
3365 Emacs*geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3366
|
|
|
3367 You should never use `*geometry' with any X application. It does not
|
|
|
3368 say "make the geometry of Emacs be 80 columns by 55 lines." It really
|
|
|
3369 says, "make Emacs and all subwindows thereof be 80x55 in whatever units
|
|
|
3370 they care to measure in." In particular, that is both telling the
|
|
|
3371 Emacs text pane to be 80x55 in characters, and telling the menubar pane
|
|
|
3372 to be 80x55 pixels, which is surely not what you want.
|
|
|
3373
|
|
|
3374 As a special case, this geometry specification also works (and sets
|
|
|
3375 the default size of all Emacs frames to 80 columns by 55 lines):
|
|
|
3376
|
|
|
3377 Emacs.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3378
|
|
|
3379 since that is the syntax used with most other applications (since most
|
|
|
3380 other applications have only one top-level window, unlike Emacs). In
|
|
|
3381 general, however, the top-level shell (the unmapped ApplicationShell
|
|
|
3382 widget named `Emacs' that is the parent of the shell widgets that
|
|
|
3383 actually manage the individual frames) does not have any interesting
|
|
|
3384 resources on it, and you should set the resources on the frames instead.
|
|
|
3385
|
|
|
3386 The `-geometry' command-line argument sets only the geometry of the
|
|
|
3387 initial frame created by Emacs.
|
|
|
3388
|
|
|
3389 A more complete explanation of geometry-handling is
|
|
|
3390
|
|
|
3391 * The `-geometry' command-line option sets the `Emacs.geometry'
|
|
|
3392 resource, that is, the geometry of the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3393
|
|
|
3394 * For the first frame created, the size of the frame is taken from
|
|
|
3395 the ApplicationShell if it is specified, otherwise from the
|
|
|
3396 geometry of the frame.
|
|
|
3397
|
|
|
3398 * For subsequent frames, the order is reversed: First the frame, and
|
|
|
3399 then the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3400
|
|
|
3401 * For the first frame created, the position of the frame is taken
|
|
|
3402 from the ApplicationShell (`Emacs.geometry') if it is specified,
|
|
|
3403 otherwise from the geometry of the frame.
|
|
|
3404
|
|
|
3405 * For subsequent frames, the position is taken only from the frame,
|
|
|
3406 and never from the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3407
|
|
|
3408 This is rather complicated, but it does seem to provide the most
|
|
|
3409 intuitive behavior with respect to the default sizes and positions of
|
|
|
3410 frames created in various ways.
|
|
|
3411
|
|
|
3412
|
|
|
3413 **** Iconic Resources
|
|
|
3414 ---------------------
|
|
|
3415
|
|
|
3416 Analogous to `-geometry', the `-iconic' command-line option sets the
|
|
|
3417 iconic flag of the ApplicationShell (`Emacs.iconic') and always applies
|
|
|
3418 to the first frame created regardless of its name. However, it is
|
|
|
3419 possible to set the iconic flag on particular frames (by name) by using
|
|
|
3420 the `Emacs*FRAME-NAME.iconic' resource.
|
|
|
3421
|
|
|
3422
|
|
|
3423 **** Resource List
|
|
|
3424 ------------------
|
|
|
3425
|
|
|
3426 Emacs frames accept the following resources:
|
|
|
3427
|
|
|
3428 `geometry' (class `Geometry'): string
|
|
|
3429 Initial geometry for the frame. *Note Geometry Resources:: for a
|
|
|
3430 complete discussion of how this works.
|
|
|
3431
|
|
|
3432 `iconic' (class `Iconic'): boolean
|
|
|
3433 Whether this frame should appear in the iconified state.
|
|
|
3434
|
|
|
3435 `internalBorderWidth' (class `InternalBorderWidth'): int
|
|
|
3436 How many blank pixels to leave between the text and the edge of the
|
|
|
3437 window.
|
|
|
3438
|
|
|
3439 `interline' (class `Interline'): int
|
|
|
3440 How many pixels to leave between each line (may not be
|
|
|
3441 implemented).
|
|
|
3442
|
|
|
3443 `menubar' (class `Menubar'): boolean
|
|
|
3444 Whether newly-created frames should initially have a menubar. Set
|
|
|
3445 to true by default.
|
|
|
3446
|
|
|
3447 `initiallyUnmapped' (class `InitiallyUnmapped'): boolean
|
|
|
3448 Whether XEmacs should leave the initial frame unmapped when it
|
|
|
3449 starts up. This is useful if you are starting XEmacs as a server
|
|
|
3450 (e.g. in conjunction with gnuserv or the external client widget).
|
|
|
3451 You can also control this with the `-unmapped' command-line option.
|
|
|
3452
|
|
|
3453 `barCursor' (class `BarColor'): boolean
|
|
|
3454 Whether the cursor should be displayed as a bar, or the
|
|
|
3455 traditional box.
|
|
|
3456
|
|
|
3457 `textPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3458 The cursor to use when the mouse is over text. This resource is
|
|
|
3459 used to initialize the variable `x-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3460
|
|
|
3461 `selectionPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3462 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a selectable text region
|
|
|
3463 (an extent with the `highlight' property; for example, an Info
|
|
|
3464 cross-reference). This resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3465 `x-selection-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3466
|
|
|
3467 `spacePointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3468 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a blank space in a buffer
|
|
|
3469 (that is, after the end of a line or after the end-of-file). This
|
|
|
3470 resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3471 `x-nontext-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3472
|
|
|
3473 `modeLinePointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3474 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a mode line. This
|
|
|
3475 resource is used to initialize the variable `x-mode-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3476
|
|
|
3477 `gcPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3478 The cursor to display when a garbage-collection is in progress.
|
|
|
3479 This resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3480 `x-gc-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3481
|
|
|
3482 `scrollbarPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3483 The cursor to use when the mouse is over the scrollbar. This
|
|
|
3484 resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3485 `x-scrollbar-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3486
|
|
|
3487 `pointerColor' (class `Foreground'): color-name
|
|
|
3488 `pointerBackground' (class `Background'): color-name
|
|
|
3489 The foreground and background colors of the mouse cursor. These
|
|
|
3490 resources are used to initialize the variables
|
|
|
3491 `x-pointer-foreground-color' and `x-pointer-background-color'.
|
|
|
3492
|
|
|
3493 `scrollBarWidth' (class `ScrollBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3494 How wide the vertical scrollbars should be, in pixels; 0 means no
|
|
|
3495 vertical scrollbars. You can also use a resource specification of
|
|
|
3496 the form `*scrollbar.width', or the usual toolkit scrollbar
|
|
|
3497 resources: `*XmScrollBar.width' (Motif), `*XlwScrollBar.width'
|
|
|
3498 (Lucid), or `*Scrollbar.thickness' (Athena). We don't recommend
|
|
|
3499 that you use the toolkit resources, though, because they're
|
|
|
3500 dependent on how exactly your particular build of XEmacs was
|
|
|
3501 configured.
|
|
|
3502
|
|
|
3503 `scrollBarHeight' (class `ScrollBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3504 How high the horizontal scrollbars should be, in pixels; 0 means no
|
|
|
3505 horizontal scrollbars. You can also use a resource specification
|
|
|
3506 of the form `*scrollbar.height', or the usual toolkit scrollbar
|
|
|
3507 resources: `*XmScrollBar.height' (Motif), `*XlwScrollBar.height'
|
|
|
3508 (Lucid), or `*Scrollbar.thickness' (Athena). We don't recommend
|
|
|
3509 that you use the toolkit resources, though, because they're
|
|
|
3510 dependent on how exactly your particular build of XEmacs was
|
|
|
3511 configured.
|
|
|
3512
|
|
|
3513 `scrollBarPlacement' (class `ScrollBarPlacement'): string
|
|
|
3514 Where the horizontal and vertical scrollbars should be positioned.
|
|
|
3515 This should be one of the four strings `bottom-left',
|
|
|
3516 `bottom-right', `top-left', and `top-right'. Default is
|
|
|
3517 `bottom-right' for the Motif and Lucid scrollbars and
|
|
|
3518 `bottom-left' for the Athena scrollbars.
|
|
|
3519
|
|
|
3520 `topToolBarHeight' (class `TopToolBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3521 `bottomToolBarHeight' (class `BottomToolBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3522 `leftToolBarWidth' (class `LeftToolBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3523 `rightToolBarWidth' (class `RightToolBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3524 Height and width of the four possible toolbars.
|
|
|
3525
|
|
|
3526 `topToolBarShadowColor' (class `TopToolBarShadowColor'): color-name
|
|
|
3527 `bottomToolBarShadowColor' (class `BottomToolBarShadowColor'): color-name
|
|
|
3528 Color of the top and bottom shadows for the toolbars. NOTE: These
|
|
|
3529 resources do *not* have anything to do with the top and bottom
|
|
|
3530 toolbars (i.e. the toolbars at the top and bottom of the frame)!
|
|
|
3531 Rather, they affect the top and bottom shadows around the edges of
|
|
|
3532 all four kinds of toolbars.
|
|
|
3533
|
|
|
3534 `topToolBarShadowPixmap' (class `TopToolBarShadowPixmap'): pixmap-name
|
|
|
3535 `bottomToolBarShadowPixmap' (class `BottomToolBarShadowPixmap'): pixmap-name
|
|
|
3536 Pixmap of the top and bottom shadows for the toolbars. If set,
|
|
|
3537 these resources override the corresponding color resources. NOTE:
|
|
|
3538 These resources do *not* have anything to do with the top and
|
|
|
3539 bottom toolbars (i.e. the toolbars at the top and bottom of the
|
|
|
3540 frame)! Rather, they affect the top and bottom shadows around the
|
|
|
3541 edges of all four kinds of toolbars.
|
|
|
3542
|
|
|
3543 `toolBarShadowThickness' (class `ToolBarShadowThickness'): integer
|
|
|
3544 Thickness of the shadows around the toolbars, in pixels.
|
|
|
3545
|
|
|
3546 `visualBell' (class `VisualBell'): boolean
|
|
|
3547 Whether XEmacs should flash the screen rather than making an
|
|
|
3548 audible beep.
|
|
|
3549
|
|
|
3550 `bellVolume' (class `BellVolume'): integer
|
|
|
3551 Volume of the audible beep.
|
|
|
3552
|
|
|
3553 `useBackingStore' (class `UseBackingStore'): boolean
|
|
|
3554 Whether XEmacs should set the backing-store attribute of the X
|
|
|
3555 windows it creates. This increases the memory usage of the X
|
|
|
3556 server but decreases the amount of X traffic necessary to update
|
|
|
3557 the screen, and is useful when the connection to the X server goes
|
|
|
3558 over a low-bandwidth line such as a modem connection.
|
|
|
3559
|
|
|
3560
|
|
|
3561 **** Face Resources
|
|
|
3562 -------------------
|
|
|
3563
|
|
|
3564 The attributes of faces are also per-frame. They can be specified as:
|
|
|
3565
|
|
|
3566 Emacs.FACE_NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3567
|
|
|
3568 (*do not* use `Emacs*FACE_NAME...')
|
|
|
3569
|
|
|
3570 or
|
|
|
3571
|
|
|
3572 Emacs*FRAME_NAME.FACE_NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3573
|
|
|
3574 Faces accept the following resources:
|
|
|
3575
|
|
|
3576 `attributeFont' (class `AttributeFont'): font-name
|
|
|
3577 The font of this face.
|
|
|
3578
|
|
|
3579 `attributeForeground' (class `AttributeForeground'): color-name
|
|
|
3580 `attributeBackground' (class `AttributeBackground'): color-name
|
|
|
3581 The foreground and background colors of this face.
|
|
|
3582
|
|
|
3583 `attributeBackgroundPixmap' (class `AttributeBackgroundPixmap'): file-name
|
|
|
3584 The name of an XBM file (or XPM file, if your version of Emacs
|
|
|
3585 supports XPM), to use as a background stipple.
|
|
|
3586
|
|
|
3587 `attributeUnderline' (class `AttributeUnderline'): boolean
|
|
|
3588 Whether text in this face should be underlined.
|
|
|
3589
|
|
|
3590 All text is displayed in some face, defaulting to the face named
|
|
|
3591 `default'. To set the font of normal text, use
|
|
|
3592 `Emacs*default.attributeFont'. To set it in the frame named `fred', use
|
|
|
3593 `Emacs*fred.default.attributeFont'.
|
|
|
3594
|
|
|
3595 These are the names of the predefined faces:
|
|
|
3596
|
|
|
3597 `default'
|
|
|
3598 Everything inherits from this.
|
|
|
3599
|
|
|
3600 `bold'
|
|
|
3601 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3602 find a bold version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3603
|
|
|
3604 `italic'
|
|
|
3605 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3606 find an italic version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3607
|
|
|
3608 `bold-italic'
|
|
|
3609 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3610 find a bold-italic version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3611
|
|
|
3612 `modeline'
|
|
|
3613 This is the face that the modeline is displayed in. If not
|
|
|
3614 specified in the resource database, it is determined from the
|
|
|
3615 default face by reversing the foreground and background colors.
|
|
|
3616
|
|
|
3617 `highlight'
|
|
|
3618 This is the face that highlighted extents (for example, Info
|
|
|
3619 cross-references and possible completions, when the mouse passes
|
|
|
3620 over them) are displayed in.
|
|
|
3621
|
|
|
3622 `left-margin'
|
|
|
3623 `right-margin'
|
|
|
3624 These are the faces that the left and right annotation margins are
|
|
|
3625 displayed in.
|
|
|
3626
|
|
|
3627 `zmacs-region'
|
|
|
3628 This is the face that mouse selections are displayed in.
|
|
|
3629
|
|
|
3630 `text-cursor'
|
|
|
3631 This is the face that the cursor is displayed in.
|
|
|
3632
|
|
|
3633 `isearch'
|
|
|
3634 This is the face that the matched text being searched for is
|
|
|
3635 displayed in.
|
|
|
3636
|
|
|
3637 `info-node'
|
|
|
3638 This is the face of info menu items. If unspecified, it is copied
|
|
|
3639 from `bold-italic'.
|
|
|
3640
|
|
|
3641 `info-xref'
|
|
|
3642 This is the face of info cross-references. If unspecified, it is
|
|
|
3643 copied from `bold'. (Note that, when the mouse passes over a
|
|
|
3644 cross-reference, the cross-reference's face is determined from a
|
|
|
3645 combination of the `info-xref' and `highlight' faces.)
|
|
|
3646
|
|
|
3647 Other packages might define their own faces; to see a list of all
|
|
|
3648 faces, use any of the interactive face-manipulation commands such as
|
|
|
3649 `set-face-font' and type `?' when you are prompted for the name of a
|
|
|
3650 face.
|
|
|
3651
|
|
|
3652 If the `bold', `italic', and `bold-italic' faces are not specified
|
|
|
3653 in the resource database, then XEmacs attempts to derive them from the
|
|
|
3654 font of the default face. It can only succeed at this if you have
|
|
|
3655 specified the default font using the XLFD (X Logical Font Description)
|
|
|
3656 format, which looks like
|
|
|
3657
|
|
|
3658 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
|
|
|
3659
|
|
|
3660 If you use any of the other, less strict font name formats, some of
|
|
|
3661 which look like
|
|
|
3662
|
|
|
3663 lucidasanstypewriter-12
|
|
|
3664 fixed
|
|
|
3665 9x13
|
|
|
3666
|
|
|
3667 then XEmacs won't be able to guess the names of the bold and italic
|
|
|
3668 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
|
|
|
3669 should use those forms. See the man pages for `X(1)', `xlsfonts(1)',
|
|
|
3670 and `xfontsel(1)'.
|
|
|
3671
|
|
|
3672
|
|
|
3673 **** Widgets
|
|
|
3674 ------------
|
|
|
3675
|
|
|
3676 There are several structural widgets between the terminal EmacsFrame
|
|
|
3677 widget and the top level ApplicationShell; the exact names and types of
|
|
|
3678 these widgets change from release to release (for example, they changed
|
|
|
3679 in 19.9, 19.10, 19.12, and 19.13) and are subject to further change in
|
|
|
3680 the future, so you should avoid mentioning them in your resource database.
|
|
|
3681 The above-mentioned syntaxes should be forward-compatible. As of 19.14,
|
|
|
3682 the exact widget hierarchy is as follows:
|
|
|
3683
|
|
|
3684 INVOCATION-NAME "shell" "container" FRAME-NAME
|
|
|
3685 x-emacs-application-class "TopLevelEmacsShell" "EmacsManager" "EmacsFrame"
|
|
|
3686
|
|
|
3687 (for normal frames)
|
|
|
3688
|
|
|
3689 or
|
|
|
3690
|
|
|
3691 INVOCATION-NAME "shell" "container" FRAME-NAME
|
|
|
3692 x-emacs-application-class "TransientEmacsShell" "EmacsManager" "EmacsFrame"
|
|
|
3693
|
|
|
3694 (for popup/dialog-box frames)
|
|
|
3695
|
|
|
3696 where INVOCATION-NAME is the terminal component of the name of the
|
|
|
3697 XEmacs executable (usually `xemacs'), and `x-emacs-application-class'
|
|
|
3698 is generally `Emacs'.
|
|
|
3699
|
|
|
3700
|
|
|
3701 **** Menubar Resources
|
|
|
3702 ----------------------
|
|
|
3703
|
|
|
3704 As the menubar is implemented as a widget which is not a part of
|
|
|
3705 XEmacs proper, it does not use the face mechanism for specifying fonts
|
|
|
3706 and colors: It uses whatever resources are appropriate to the type of
|
|
|
3707 widget which is used to implement it.
|
|
|
3708
|
|
|
3709 If Emacs was compiled to use only the Motif-lookalike menu widgets,
|
|
|
3710 then one way to specify the font of the menubar would be
|
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3711
|
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3712 Emacs*menubar*font: *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
|
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3713
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|
3714 If the Motif library is being used, then one would have to use
|
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3715
|
|
|
3716 Emacs*menubar*fontList: *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
|
|
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3717
|
|
|
3718 because the Motif library uses the `fontList' resource name instead
|
|
|
3719 of `font', which has subtly different semantics.
|
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3720
|
|
|
3721 The same is true of the scrollbars: They accept whichever resources
|
|
|
3722 are appropriate for the toolkit in use.
|
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3723
|
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3724
|
|
|
3725 *** Source Code Highlighting
|
|
|
3726 ----------------------------
|
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3727
|
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|
3728 It's possible to have your buffers "decorated" with fonts or colors
|
|
|
3729 indicating syntactic structures (such as strings, comments, function names,
|
|
|
3730 "reserved words", etc.). In XEmacs, the preferred way to do this is with
|
|
|
3731 font-lock-mode; activate it by adding the following code to your .emacs file:
|
|
|
3732
|
|
|
3733 (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
|
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|
3734 (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
|
|
|
3735 (add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
|
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|
3736 (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
|
|
|
3737 ...etc...
|
|
|
3738
|
|
|
3739 To customize it, see the descriptions of the function `font-lock-mode' and
|
|
|
3740 the variables `font-lock-keywords', `c-font-lock-keywords', etc.
|
|
|
3741
|
|
|
3742 There exist several other source code highlighting packages, but font-lock
|
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|
3743 does one thing that most others don't do: highlights as you type new text;
|
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|
3744 and one thing that no others do: bases part of its decoration on the
|
|
|
3745 syntax table of the major mode. Font-lock has C-level support to do this
|
|
|
3746 efficiently, so it should also be significantly faster than the others.
|
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3747
|
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|
3748 If there's something that another highlighting package does that you can't
|
|
|
3749 make font-lock do, let us know. We would prefer to consolidate all of the
|
|
|
3750 desired functionality into one package rather than ship several different
|
|
|
3751 packages which do essentially the same thing in different ways.
|
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3752
|
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3753
|
|
|
3754 ** Differences Between XEmacs and Emacs 18
|
|
|
3755 ==========================================
|
|
|
3756
|
|
|
3757 Auto-configure support has been added, so it should be fairly easy to compile
|
|
|
3758 XEmacs on different systems. If you have any problems or feedback about
|
|
|
3759 compiling on your system, please let us know.
|
|
|
3760
|
|
|
3761 We have reimplemented the basic input model in a more general way; instead of
|
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|
3762 X input being a special-case of the normal ASCII input stream, XEmacs has a
|
|
|
3763 concept of "input events", and ASCII characters are a subset of that. The
|
|
|
3764 events that XEmacs knows about are not X events, but are a generalization of
|
|
|
3765 them, so that XEmacs can eventually be ported to different window systems.
|
|
|
3766
|
|
|
3767 We have reimplemented keymaps so that sequences of events can be stored into
|
|
|
3768 them instead of just ASCII codes; it is possible to, for example, bind
|
|
|
3769 different commands to each of the chords Control-h, Control-H, Backspace,
|
|
|
3770 Control-Backspace, and Super-Shift-Backspace. Key bindings, function key
|
|
|
3771 bindings, and mouse bindings live in the same keymaps.
|
|
|
3772
|
|
|
3773 Input and display of all ISO-8859-1 characters is supported.
|
|
|
3774
|
|
|
3775 You can have multiple X windows ("frames" in XEmacs terminology).
|
|
|
3776
|
|
|
3777 XEmacs has objects called "extents" and "faces", which are roughly
|
|
|
3778 analogous to Epoch's "buttons," "zones," and "styles." An extent is a
|
|
|
3779 region of text (a start position and an end position) and a face is a
|
|
|
3780 collection of textual attributes like fonts and colors. Every extent
|
|
|
3781 is displayed in some "face", so changing the properties of a face
|
|
|
3782 immediately updates the display of all associated extents. Faces can
|
|
|
3783 be frame-local: you can have a region of text which displays with
|
|
|
3784 completely different attributes when its buffer is viewed from a
|
|
|
3785 different X window.
|
|
|
3786
|
|
|
3787 The display attributes of faces may be specified either in lisp or through
|
|
|
3788 the X resource manager.
|
|
|
3789
|
|
|
3790 Pixmaps of arbitrary size can be embedded in a buffer.
|
|
|
3791
|
|
|
3792 Variable width fonts work.
|
|
|
3793
|
|
|
3794 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font on that line, instead
|
|
|
3795 of all lines having the same height.
|
|
|
3796
|
|
|
3797 XEmacs uses the MIT "Xt" toolkit instead of raw Xlib calls, which
|
|
|
3798 makes it be a more well-behaved X citizen (and also improves
|
|
|
3799 portability). A result of this is that it is possible to include
|
|
|
3800 other Xt "Widgets" in the XEmacs window. Also, XEmacs understands the
|
|
|
3801 standard Xt command-line arguments.
|
|
|
3802
|
|
|
3803 XEmacs understands the X11 "Selection" mechanism; it's possible to define
|
|
|
3804 and customize selection converter functions and new selection types from
|
|
|
3805 Emacs Lisp, without having to recompile XEmacs.
|
|
|
3806
|
|
|
3807 XEmacs provides support for ToolTalk on systems that have it.
|
|
|
3808
|
|
|
3809 XEmacs supports the Zmacs/Lispm style of region highlighting, where the
|
|
|
3810 region between the point and mark is highlighted when in its "active" state.
|
|
|
3811
|
|
|
3812 XEmacs has a menubar, whose contents are customizable from emacs-lisp.
|
|
|
3813 This menubar looks Motif-ish, but does not require Motif. If you already
|
|
|
3814 own Motif, however, you can configure XEmacs to use a *real* Motif menubar
|
|
|
3815 instead.
|
|
|
3816
|
|
|
3817 XEmacs can ask questions using popup dialog boxes. Any command executed from
|
|
|
3818 a menu will ask yes/no questions with dialog boxes, while commands executed
|
|
|
3819 via the keyboard will use the minibuffer.
|
|
|
3820
|
|
|
3821 XEmacs has vertical and horizontal scrollbars.
|
|
|
3822
|
|
|
3823 The initial load-path is computed at run-time, instead of at compile-time.
|
|
|
3824 This means that if you move the XEmacs executable and associated directories
|
|
|
3825 to somewhere else, you don't have to recompile anything.
|
|
|
3826
|
|
|
3827 You can specify what the title of the XEmacs windows and icons should be
|
|
|
3828 with the variables `frame-title-format' and `frame-icon-title-format',
|
|
|
3829 which have the same syntax as `mode-line-format'.
|
|
|
3830
|
|
|
3831 XEmacs now supports floating-point numbers.
|
|
|
3832
|
|
|
3833 XEmacs now knows about timers directly, instead of them being simulated by
|
|
|
3834 a subprocess.
|
|
|
3835
|
|
|
3836 XEmacs understands truenames, and can be configured to notice when you are
|
|
|
3837 visiting two names of the same file. See the variables find-file-use-truenames
|
|
|
3838 and find-file-compare-truenames.
|
|
|
3839
|
|
|
3840 If you're running on a machine with audio hardware, you can specify sound
|
|
|
3841 files for XEmacs to play instead of the default X beep. See the documentation
|
|
|
3842 of the function load-sound-file and the variable sound-alist.
|
|
|
3843
|
|
|
3844 An XEmacs frame can be placed within an "external client widget" managed by
|
|
|
3845 another application. This allows an application to use an XEmacs frame as its
|
|
|
3846 text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided with Motif or
|
|
|
3847 Athena. XEmacs supports Motif applications, generic Xt (e.g. Athena)
|
|
|
3848 applications, and raw Xlib applications.
|
|
|
3849
|
|
|
3850 Random changes to the emacs-lisp library: (some of this was not written by
|
|
|
3851 us, but is included because it's free software and we think it's good stuff)
|
|
|
3852
|
|
|
3853 - there is a new optimizing byte-compiler
|
|
|
3854 - there is a new abbrev-based mail-alias mechanism
|
|
|
3855 - the -*- line can contain local-variable settings
|
|
|
3856 - there is a new TAGS package
|
|
|
3857 - there is a new VI-emulation mode (viper)
|
|
|
3858 - there is a new implementation of Dired
|
|
|
3859 - there is a new implementation of Isearch
|
|
|
3860 - the VM package for reading mail is provided
|
|
|
3861 - the W3 package for browsing the World Wide Web hypertext information
|
|
|
3862 system is provided
|
|
|
3863 - the Hyperbole package, a programmable information management and
|
|
|
3864 hypertext system
|
|
|
3865 - the OO-Browser package, a multi-language object-oriented browser
|
|
|
3866
|
|
|
3867 There are many more specifics in the "Miscellaneous Changes" section, below.
|
|
|
3868
|
|
|
3869 The online Emacs Manual and Emacs-Lisp Manual are now both relatively
|
|
|
3870 up-to-date.
|
|
|
3871
|
|
|
3872 ** Major Differences Between 19.13 and 19.14
|
|
|
3873 ============================================
|
|
|
3874
|
|
|
3875 XEmacs has a new address! The canonical ftp site is now
|
|
|
3876 ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs and the Web page is now at
|
|
|
3877 http://www.xemacs.org/. All mailing lists now have @xemacs.org
|
|
|
3878 addresses. For the time being the @cs.uiuc.edu addresses will
|
|
|
3879 continue to function.
|
|
|
3880
|
|
|
3881 This is a major new release. Many features have been added, as well
|
|
|
3882 as many bugs fixed. The Motif menubar has still _NOT_ been fixed for
|
|
|
3883 19.14. You should use the Lucid menubar instead.
|
|
|
3884
|
|
|
3885
|
|
|
3886
|
|
|
3887 Major user-visible changes:
|
|
|
3888 ---------------------------
|
|
|
3889
|
|
|
3890 -- Color support in TTY mode is provided. You have to have a TTY capable
|
|
|
3891 of displaying them, such as color xterm or the console under Linux.
|
|
|
3892 If your terminal type supports colors (e.g. `xterm-color'), XEmacs
|
|
|
3893 will automatically notice this and start using color.
|
|
|
3894
|
|
|
3895 -- blink-cursor-mode enables a blinking text cursor. There is a
|
|
|
3896 menubar option for this also.
|
|
|
3897
|
|
|
3898 -- auto-show-mode is turned on by default; this means that XEmacs
|
|
|
3899 will automatically scroll a window horizontally as necessary to
|
|
|
3900 keep point in view.
|
|
|
3901
|
|
|
3902 -- a file dialog box is provided and will be used whenever you
|
|
|
3903 are prompted for a filename as a result of a menubar selection.
|
|
|
3904
|
|
|
3905 -- XEmacs can be compiled with built-in GIF, JPEG, and PNG support.
|
|
|
3906 The GIF libraries are supplied with XEmacs; for JPEG and PNG,
|
|
|
3907 you have to obtain the appropriate libraries (this is well-
|
|
|
3908 documented). This makes image display much easier and faster under
|
|
|
3909 W3 (the web browser) and TM (adds MIME support to VM and GNUS;
|
|
|
3910 not yet included with XEmacs but will be in 19.15).
|
|
|
3911
|
|
|
3912 -- XEmacs provides a really nice mode (PSGML with "Wing improvements")
|
|
|
3913 for editing HTML and other SGML documents. It parses the document,
|
|
|
3914 and as a result it does proper indentation, can show you the context
|
|
|
3915 you're in, the allowed tags at a particular position, etc.
|
|
|
3916
|
|
|
3917 -- XEmacs comes standard with modes for editing Java and VRML code,
|
|
|
3918 including font-lock support.
|
|
|
3919
|
|
|
3920 -- GNUS 5.2 comes standard with XEmacs.
|
|
|
3921
|
|
|
3922 -- You can now embed colors in the modeline, with different sections
|
|
|
3923 of the modeline responding appropriately to various mouse gestures:
|
|
|
3924 For example, clicking on the "read-only" indicator toggles the
|
|
|
3925 read-only status of a buffer, and clicking on the buffer name
|
|
|
3926 cycles to the next buffer. Pressing button3 on these areas brings
|
|
|
3927 up a popup menu of appropriate commands.
|
|
|
3928
|
|
|
3929 -- There is a much nicer mode for completion lists and such.
|
|
|
3930 At the minibuffer prompt, if you hit page-up or Meta-V, the completion
|
|
|
3931 buffer will be displayed (if it wasn't already), you're moved into
|
|
|
3932 it, and can move around and select filenames using the arrow keys
|
|
|
3933 and the return key. Rather than a cursor, a filename is highlighted,
|
|
|
3934 and the arrow keys change which filename is highlighted.
|
|
|
3935
|
|
|
3936 -- The edit-faces subsystem has also been much improved, in somewhat
|
|
|
3937 similar ways to the completion list improvements.
|
|
|
3938
|
|
|
3939 -- Many improvements were made to the multi-device support.
|
|
|
3940 We now provide an auxiliary utility called "gnuattach" that
|
|
|
3941 lets you connect to an existing XEmacs process and display
|
|
|
3942 a TTY frame on the current TTY connection, and commands
|
|
|
3943 `make-frame-on-display' (with a corresponding menubar entry)
|
|
|
3944 and `make-frame-on-tty' for more easily creating frames on
|
|
|
3945 new TTY or X connections.
|
|
|
3946
|
|
|
3947 -- We have incorporated nearly all of the functionality of GNU Emacs
|
|
|
3948 19.30 into XEmacs. This includes support for lazy-loaded
|
|
|
3949 byte code and documentation strings, improved paragraph filling,
|
|
|
3950 better support for margins within documents, v19 regular expression
|
|
|
3951 routines (including caching of compiled regexps), etc.
|
|
|
3952
|
|
|
3953 -- In accordance with GNU Emacs 19.30, the following key binding
|
|
|
3954 changes have been made:
|
|
|
3955
|
|
|
3956 C-x ESC -> C-x ESC ESC
|
|
|
3957 ESC ESC -> ESC :
|
|
|
3958 ESC ESC ESC is "abort anything" (keyboard-escape-quit).
|
|
|
3959
|
|
|
3960 -- All major packages have been updated to their latest-released
|
|
|
3961 versions.
|
|
|
3962
|
|
|
3963 -- XEmacs now gracefully handles a full colormap (such as typically
|
|
|
3964 results when running Netscape). The nearest available color
|
|
|
3965 is automatically substituted.
|
|
|
3966
|
|
|
3967 -- Many bug fixes to the subprocess/PTY code, ps-print, menubar
|
|
|
3968 functions, `set-text-properties', DEC Alpha support, toolbar
|
|
|
3969 resizing (the "phantom VM toolbar" bug), and lots and lots
|
|
|
3970 of other things were made.
|
|
|
3971
|
|
|
3972 -- The ncurses library (a replacement for curses, found especially
|
|
|
3973 under Linux) is supported, and will be automatically used
|
|
|
3974 if it can be found.
|
|
|
3975
|
|
|
3976 -- You can now undo in the minibuffer.
|
|
|
3977
|
|
|
3978 -- Surrogate minibuffers now work. These are also sometimes referred
|
|
|
3979 to as "global" minibuffers.
|
|
|
3980
|
|
|
3981 -- font-lock has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.30, improved defaults
|
|
|
3982 have been added, and changes have been made to the way it is
|
|
|
3983 configured.
|
|
|
3984
|
|
|
3985 -- Many, many modes have menubar entries for them.
|
|
|
3986
|
|
|
3987 -- `recover-session' lets you recover whatever files can be recovered
|
|
|
3988 after your XEmacs process has died unexpectedly.
|
|
|
3989
|
|
|
3990 -- C-h k followed by a toolbar button press correctly reports
|
|
|
3991 the binding of the toolbar button.
|
|
|
3992
|
|
|
3993 -- `function-key-map', `key-translation-map', and `keyboard-translate-table'
|
|
|
3994 are now correctly implemented.
|
|
|
3995
|
|
|
3996 -- `show-message-log' (and its menubar entry under Edit) have been
|
|
|
3997 removed; instead use `view-lossage' (and its menubar entry under
|
|
|
3998 Help).
|
|
|
3999
|
|
|
4000 -- There is a standard menubar entry for specifying which browser
|
|
|
4001 (Netscape, W3, Mosaic, etc.) to use when dispatching URL's
|
|
|
4002 in mail, Usenet news, etc.
|
|
|
4003
|
|
|
4004 -- Improved native sound support under Linux.
|
|
|
4005
|
|
|
4006 -- Lots of other things we forgot to mention.
|
|
|
4007
|
|
|
4008
|
|
|
4009
|
|
|
4010 Significant Lisp-level changes:
|
|
|
4011 -------------------------------
|
|
|
4012
|
|
|
4013 -- Many improvements to the E-Lisp documentation have been made;
|
|
|
4014 it should now be up-to-date and complete in nearly all cases.
|
|
|
4015
|
|
|
4016 -- XEmacs has extensive documentation on its internals, for
|
|
|
4017 would-be C hackers.
|
|
|
4018
|
|
|
4019 -- Common-Lisp support (the CL package) is now dumped standard
|
|
|
4020 into XEmacs. No more need for (require 'cl) or anything
|
|
|
4021 like that.
|
|
|
4022
|
|
|
4023 -- Full support for extents and text properties over strings is
|
|
|
4024 provided.
|
|
|
4025
|
|
|
4026 -- The extent properties `start-open', `end-open', `start-closed',
|
|
|
4027 and `end-closed' now work correctly w.r.t. text properties.
|
|
|
4028
|
|
|
4029 -- The `face' property of extents and text properties can now
|
|
|
4030 be a list.
|
|
|
4031
|
|
|
4032 -- The `mouse-face' property from GNU Emacs is now supported.
|
|
|
4033 It supersedes the `highlight' property.
|
|
|
4034
|
|
|
4035 -- `enriched' and `facemenu' packages from GNU Emacs have been ported.
|
|
|
4036
|
|
|
4037 -- New functions for easier creation of dialog boxes:
|
|
|
4038 `get-dialog-box-response', `message-box', and `message-or-box'.
|
|
|
4039
|
|
|
4040 -- `function-min-args' and `function-max-args' allow you to determine
|
|
|
4041 the minimum and maximum allowed arguments for any type of
|
|
|
4042 function (i.e. subr, lambda expression, byte-compiled function, etc.).
|
|
|
4043
|
|
|
4044 -- Some C-level support for doing E-Lisp profiling is provided.
|
|
|
4045 See `start-profiling', `stop-profiling', and
|
|
|
4046 `pretty-print-profiling-info'.
|
|
|
4047
|
|
|
4048 -- `current-process-time' reports the user, system, and real times
|
|
|
4049 for the currently running XEmacs process.
|
|
|
4050
|
|
|
4051 -- `next-window', `previous-window', `next-frame', `previous-frame',
|
|
|
4052 `other-window', `get-lru-window', etc. have an extra device
|
|
|
4053 argument that allows you to restrict which devices it includes
|
|
|
4054 (normally all devices). Some functions that incorrectly ignored
|
|
|
4055 frames on different devices (e.g. C-x 0) are fixed.
|
|
|
4056
|
|
|
4057 -- new functions `run-hook-with-args-until-success',
|
|
|
4058 `run-hook-with-args-until-failure'.
|
|
|
4059
|
|
|
4060 -- generalized facility for local vs. global hooks. See `make-local-hook',
|
|
|
4061 `add-hook'.
|
|
|
4062
|
|
|
4063 -- New functions for querying the window tree: `frame-leftmost-window',
|
|
|
4064 `frame-rightmost-window', `window-first-hchild', `window-first-vchild',
|
|
|
4065 `window-next-child', `window-previous-child', and `window-parent'.
|
|
|
4066
|
|
|
4067 -- Epoch support works. This gets you direct access to some X events
|
|
|
4068 and objects (e.g. properties and property-notify events).
|
|
|
4069
|
|
|
4070 -- The multi-device support has been majorly revamped. There is now
|
|
|
4071 a new concept of "consoles" (devices grouped together under a
|
|
|
4072 common keyboard/mouse), console-local variables, and a generalized
|
|
|
4073 concept of device/console connection.
|
|
|
4074
|
|
|
4075 -- `display-buffer' synched with GNU Emacs 19.30, giving you lots of
|
|
|
4076 wondrous cruft such as
|
|
|
4077 -- unsplittable frames
|
|
|
4078 -- pop-up-frames, pop-up-frame-function
|
|
|
4079 -- special-display-buffer-names, special-display-regexps,
|
|
|
4080 special-display-function
|
|
|
4081 -- same-window-buffer-names, same-window-regexps
|
|
|
4082
|
|
|
4083 -- XEmacs has support for accessing DBM- and/or DB-format databases,
|
|
|
4084 provided that you have the appropriate libraries on your system.
|
|
|
4085
|
|
|
4086 -- There is a new font style: "strikethru" fonts.
|
|
|
4087
|
|
|
4088 -- New data type "weak list", which is a list with special
|
|
|
4089 garbage-collection properties, similar to weak hash tables.
|
|
|
4090
|
|
|
4091 -- `set-face-parent' makes one face inherit all properties from another.
|
|
|
4092
|
|
|
4093 -- The junky frame parameters mechanism has been revamped as
|
|
|
4094 frame properties, which a standard property-list interface.
|
|
|
4095
|
|
|
4096 -- Lots and lots of functions for working with property lists have
|
|
|
4097 been added.
|
|
|
4098
|
|
|
4099 -- New functions `push-window-configuration', `pop-window-configuration',
|
|
|
4100 `unpop-window-configuration' for maintain a stack of window
|
|
|
4101 configurations.
|
|
|
4102
|
|
|
4103 -- Many fixups to the glyph code; icons and mouse pointers are now
|
|
|
4104 properly merged into the glyph mechanism.
|
|
|
4105
|
|
|
4106 -- `set-specifier' works more sensibly, like `set-face-property'.
|
|
|
4107
|
|
|
4108 -- Many new specifiers for individually controlling toolbar height/width
|
|
|
4109 and visibility and text cursor visibility.
|
|
|
4110
|
|
|
4111 -- New face `text-cursor' controls the colors of the text cursor.
|
|
|
4112
|
|
|
4113 -- Many new variables for turning on debug information about the
|
|
|
4114 inner workings of XEmacs.
|
|
|
4115
|
|
|
4116 -- Hash tables can now compare their keys using `equal' or `eql'
|
|
|
4117 as well as `eq'.
|
|
|
4118
|
|
|
4119 -- Other things too numerous to mention.
|
|
|
4120
|
|
|
4121
|
|
|
4122
|
|
|
4123 Significant configuration/build changes:
|
|
|
4124 ----------------------------------------
|
|
|
4125
|
|
|
4126 -- You can disable TTY support, toolbar support, scrollbar support,
|
|
|
4127 menubar support, and/or dialog box support at configure time
|
|
|
4128 to save memory.
|
|
|
4129
|
|
|
4130 -- New configure option `--extra-verbose' shows the diagnostic
|
|
|
4131 output from feature testing; this should help track down
|
|
|
4132 problems with incorrect feature detection.
|
|
|
4133
|
|
|
4134 -- `dont-have-xmu' is now `with-xmu', with the reversed sense.
|
|
|
4135 (It defaults to `yes'.)
|
|
|
4136
|
|
|
4137 -- `with-mocklisp' lets you add Mocklisp support if you really
|
|
|
4138 need this.
|
|
|
4139
|
|
|
4140 -- `with-term' for adding TERM support for Linux users.
|
|
|
4141
|
|
|
4142
|
|
|
4143
|
|
|
4144 ** Major Differences Between 19.12 and 19.13
|
|
|
4145 ============================================
|
|
|
4146
|
|
|
4147 This is primarily a bug-fix release. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
|
|
|
4148 Hopefully only a few have been introduced. The most noteworthy bug
|
|
|
4149 fixes are:
|
|
|
4150
|
|
|
4151 -- There should be no more problems connecting XEmacs to an X
|
|
|
4152 server over SLIP or other slow connections.
|
|
|
4153 -- Periodic crashes when using the Buffers menu should be gone.
|
|
|
4154 -- etags would sometimes erase the current buffer; it doesn't
|
|
|
4155 any more.
|
|
|
4156 -- XEmacs will correctly exit if the X server dies.
|
|
|
4157 -- uniconified frames are displayed properly under TVTWM.
|
|
|
4158 -- Breakage in `add-menu-item' / `add-menu-button' is fixed.
|
|
|
4159
|
|
|
4160 The Motif menubar has _NOT_ been fixed for 19.13. You should use the
|
|
|
4161 Lucid menubar instead.
|
|
|
4162
|
|
|
4163 Multi-device support should now be working properly. You can now open
|
|
|
4164 an X device after having started out on a TTY device.
|
|
|
4165
|
|
|
4166 Background pixmaps now work. See `set-face-background-pixmap'.
|
|
|
4167
|
|
|
4168 Echo area messages are now saved to a buffer, " *Message Log*". To
|
|
|
4169 see this buffer, use the command `show-message-log'. It is possible
|
|
|
4170 to filter the message which are actually included by modifying the
|
|
|
4171 variables `log-message-ignore-regexps' and `log-message-ignore-labels'.
|
|
|
4172
|
|
|
4173 You can now control which warnings you want to see. See
|
|
|
4174 `display-warning-suppressed-classes' and friends.
|
|
|
4175
|
|
|
4176 You can now set the default location of an "other window" from the
|
|
|
4177 Options menu.
|
|
|
4178
|
|
|
4179 "Save Options" now saves the state of all faces.
|
|
|
4180
|
|
|
4181 You can choose which file "Save Options" writes into; see
|
|
|
4182 `save-options-file'.
|
|
|
4183
|
|
|
4184 XPM support is no longer required for the toolbar.
|
|
|
4185
|
|
|
4186 The relocating allocator is now enabled by default whenever possible.
|
|
|
4187 This allows buffer memory to be returned to the system when no longer
|
|
|
4188 in use which helps keep XEmacs process size down.
|
|
|
4189
|
|
|
4190 The ability to have captioned toolbars has been added. Currently only
|
|
|
4191 the default toolbar actually has a captioned version provided. A new
|
|
|
4192 specifier variable, `toolbar-buttons-captioned-p' controls whether the
|
|
|
4193 toolbar is captioned.
|
|
|
4194
|
|
|
4195 A copy of the XEmacs FAQ is now included and is available through info.
|
|
|
4196
|
|
|
4197 The on-line E-Lisp reference manual has been significantly updated.
|
|
|
4198
|
|
|
4199 There is now audio support under Linux.
|
|
|
4200
|
|
|
4201 Modifier keys can now be sticky. This is controlled by the variable
|
|
|
4202 `modifier-keys-are-sticky'.
|
|
|
4203
|
|
|
4204 manual-entry should now work correctly under Irix with the penalty of
|
|
|
4205 a longer startup time the first time it is invoked. If you are having
|
|
|
4206 problems with this on another system try setting
|
|
|
4207 `Manual-use-subdirectory-list' to t.
|
|
|
4208
|
|
|
4209 make-tty-device no longer automatically creates the first frame.
|
|
|
4210
|
|
|
4211 Rectangular regions now work correctly.
|
|
|
4212
|
|
|
4213 ediff no longer sets synchronize-minibuffers to t unless you first set
|
|
|
4214 ediff-synchronize-minibuffers
|
|
|
4215
|
|
|
4216 keyboard-translate-table has been implemented. This means that the
|
|
|
4217 `enable-flow-control' command for dealing with TTY connections that
|
|
|
4218 filter out ^S and ^Q now works.
|
|
|
4219
|
|
|
4220 You can now create frames that are initially unmapped and frames that
|
|
|
4221 are "transient for another frame", meaning that they behave more like
|
|
|
4222 dialog-box frames.
|
|
|
4223
|
|
|
4224 Other E-Lisp changes:
|
|
|
4225
|
|
|
4226 -- Specifier `menubar-visible-p' for controlling menubar visibility
|
|
|
4227 -- Local command hooks should be set using `local-pre-command-hook'
|
|
|
4228 and `local-post-command-hook' instead of making the global
|
|
|
4229 equivalents be buffer-local.
|
|
|
4230 -- `quit-char', `help-char', `meta-prefix-char' can be any key specifier
|
|
|
4231 instead of just an integer.
|
|
|
4232 -- new functions `add-async-timeout' and `disable-async-timeout'.
|
|
|
4233 These let you create asynchronous timeouts, which are like
|
|
|
4234 normal timeouts except that they're executed even during
|
|
|
4235 running Lisp code. Use this with care!
|
|
|
4236 -- `debug-on-error' and `stack-trace-on-error' now enter the debugger
|
|
|
4237 only when an *unhandled* error occurs. If you want the old
|
|
|
4238 behavior, use `debug-on-signal' and `stack-trace-on-signal'.
|
|
|
4239 -- \U, \L, \u, \l, \E recognized specially in `replace-match'.
|
|
|
4240 These are standard ex/perl commands for changing the case of
|
|
|
4241 replaced text.
|
|
|
4242 -- New function event-matches-key-specifier-p. This provides
|
|
|
4243 a clean way of comparing keypress events with key specifiers
|
|
|
4244 such as 65, (shift home), etc. without having to resort
|
|
|
4245 to ugly `character-to-event' / `event-to-character' hacks.
|
|
|
4246 -- New function `add-to-list'
|
|
|
4247 -- New Common-Lisp functions `some', `every', `notevery', `notany',
|
|
|
4248 `adjoin', `union', `intersection', `set-difference',
|
|
|
4249 `set-exclusive-or', `subsetp'
|
|
|
4250 -- `remove-face-property' provides a clean way of removing a
|
|
|
4251 face property.
|
|
|
4252
|
|
|
4253 Many of the Emacs Lisp packages have been updated. Some of the new
|
|
|
4254 Emacs Lisp packages ---
|
|
|
4255
|
|
|
4256 ada-mode: major mode for editing Ada source
|
|
|
4257
|
|
|
4258 arc-mode: simple editing of archives
|
|
|
4259
|
|
|
4260 auto-show-mode: automatically scrolls horizontally to keep point on-screen
|
|
|
4261
|
|
|
4262 completion: dynamic word completion mode
|
|
|
4263
|
|
|
4264 dabbrev: the dynamic abbrev package has been rewritten and is much
|
|
|
4265 more powerful -- e.g. it searches in other buffers as well
|
|
|
4266 as the current one
|
|
|
4267
|
|
|
4268 easymenu: menu support package
|
|
|
4269
|
|
|
4270 live-icon: makes frame icons represent the current frame contents
|
|
|
4271
|
|
|
4272 mailcrypt 3.2: mail encryption with PGP; included but v2.4 is still
|
|
|
4273 the default
|
|
|
4274
|
|
|
4275 two-column: for editing two-column text
|
|
|
4276
|
|
|
4277
|
|
|
4278 ** Major Differences Between 19.11 and 19.12
|
|
|
4279 ============================================
|
|
|
4280
|
|
|
4281 This is a huge new release. Almost every aspect of XEmacs has been changed
|
|
|
4282 at least somewhat. The highlights are:
|
|
|
4283
|
|
|
4284 -- TTY support (includes face support)
|
|
|
4285 -- new redisplay engine; should be faster, less buggy, and more powerful
|
|
|
4286 -- terminology change from "screen" to "frame"
|
|
|
4287 -- built-in toolbar
|
|
|
4288 -- toolbar support added to many packages
|
|
|
4289 -- multiple device support (still in beta; improvements to come in
|
|
|
4290 19.13)
|
|
|
4291 -- Purify used to ensure that there are no memory leaks or memory corruption
|
|
|
4292 problems
|
|
|
4293 -- horizontal and vertical scrollbars in all windows
|
|
|
4294 -- new Lucid (i.e. look-alike Motif) scrollbar widget
|
|
|
4295 -- stay-up menus in the Lucid (look-alike Motif) menubar widget
|
|
|
4296 -- 3-d modeline
|
|
|
4297 -- new extents engine; should be faster, less buggy, and more powerful
|
|
|
4298 -- much more powerful control over faces
|
|
|
4299 -- expanded menubar
|
|
|
4300 -- more work on synching with GNU Emacs 19.28
|
|
|
4301 -- new packages: Hyperbole, OOBR (object browser), hm--html-menus, viper,
|
|
|
4302 lazy-lock.el, ksh-mode.el, rsz-minibuf.el
|
|
|
4303 -- package updates for all major packages
|
|
|
4304 -- dynodump package for Solaris: provides proper undumping and portable
|
|
|
4305 binaries across different OS versions and machine types
|
|
|
4306 -- Greatly expanded concept of "glyphs" (pixmaps etc. in a buffer)
|
|
|
4307 -- built-in support for displaying X-Faces, if the X-Face library is
|
|
|
4308 available
|
|
|
4309 -- built-in support for SOCKS if the SOCKS library is available
|
|
|
4310 -- graceful behavior when the colormap is full (e.g. Netscape ate
|
|
|
4311 all the colors)
|
|
|
4312 -- built-in MD5 (secure hashing function) support
|
|
|
4313
|
|
|
4314
|
|
|
4315 More specific information:
|
|
|
4316
|
|
|
4317 *** TTY Support
|
|
|
4318 ---------------
|
|
|
4319
|
|
|
4320 The long-awaited TTY support is now available. XEmacs will start up
|
|
|
4321 in TTY mode (using the tty you started XEmacs from) if the DISPLAY
|
|
|
4322 environment variable is not set or if you use the `-nw' option.
|
|
|
4323
|
|
|
4324 Faces are available on TTY's. For a demonstration, try editing a C
|
|
|
4325 file and turning on font-lock-mode.
|
|
|
4326
|
|
|
4327 You can also connect to additional TTY's using `make-tty-device',
|
|
|
4328 whether your first frame was a TTY or an X window. This ability is
|
|
|
4329 not yet completely finished.
|
|
|
4330
|
|
|
4331 The full event-loop capabilities (processes, timeouts, etc.) are
|
|
|
4332 available on TTY's.
|
|
|
4333
|
|
|
4334
|
|
|
4335
|
|
|
4336 *** New Redisplay Engine
|
|
|
4337 ------------------------
|
|
|
4338
|
|
|
4339 The redisplay engine has been rewritten to improve its efficiency and
|
|
|
4340 to increase its functionality. It should also be significantly more
|
|
|
4341 bug-free than the previous redisplay engine.
|
|
|
4342
|
|
|
4343 A line that is not big enough to display at the bottom of the window
|
|
|
4344 will normally be clipped (so that it is partially visible) rather than
|
|
|
4345 not displayed at all. The variable `pixel-vertical-clip-threshold'
|
|
|
4346 can be used to control the minimum space that must be available for a
|
|
|
4347 line to be clipped rather than not displayed at all.
|
|
|
4348
|
|
|
4349 Tabs are displayed in such a way that things line up fairly well even
|
|
|
4350 in the presence of variable-width fonts and/or lines with
|
|
|
4351 multiply-sized fonts.
|
|
|
4352
|
|
|
4353 Display tables are implemented, through the specifier variable
|
|
|
4354 `current-display-table'. They can be buffer-local, window-local,
|
|
|
4355 frame-local, or device-local. See below for info about specifiers.
|
|
|
4356
|
|
|
4357
|
|
|
4358
|
|
|
4359 *** Toolbar
|
|
|
4360 -----------
|
|
|
4361
|
|
|
4362 There is now built-in support for a toolbar. A sample toolbar is
|
|
|
4363 visible by default at the top of the frame. Four separate toolbars
|
|
|
4364 can be configured (at the top, bottom, left, and right of the frame).
|
|
|
4365 The toolbar specification is similar to the menubar specification.
|
|
|
4366 The up, down, and disabled glyphs of a toolbar button can be
|
|
|
4367 separately controlled. Explanatory text can be echoed in the echo
|
|
|
4368 area when the mouse passes over a toolbar button. The size, contents,
|
|
|
4369 and visibility of the various toolbars can be controlled on a
|
|
|
4370 per-buffer, per-window, per-frame, and per-device basis through the
|
|
|
4371 use of specifiers. See the chapter on toolbars in the Lisp Reference
|
|
|
4372 Manual (included with XEmacs) for more information.
|
|
|
4373
|
|
|
4374 The toolbar color and shadow thicknesses are currently controlled only
|
|
|
4375 through `modify-frame-parameters' and through X resources. We are
|
|
|
4376 planning on making these controllable through specifiers as well. (Our
|
|
|
4377 hope is to make `modify-frame-parameters' obsolete, as it is a clunky
|
|
|
4378 and not very powerful mechanism.)
|
|
|
4379
|
|
|
4380 Info, GNUS, VM, W3, and various other packages include custom toolbars
|
|
|
4381 with them.
|
|
|
4382
|
|
|
4383
|
|
|
4384
|
|
|
4385 *** Menubar
|
|
|
4386 -----------
|
|
|
4387
|
|
|
4388 Stay-up menus are implemented in the look-alike Motif menubar.
|
|
|
4389
|
|
|
4390 The default menubar has been expanded to include most commonly-used
|
|
|
4391 functions in XEmacs.
|
|
|
4392
|
|
|
4393 The options menu has been greatly expanded to include many more
|
|
|
4394 options.
|
|
|
4395
|
|
|
4396 The menubar specification format has been greatly expanded. Per-menu
|
|
|
4397 activation hooks can be specified through the :filter keyword (thus
|
|
|
4398 obsoleting `activate-menubar-hook'); this allows for fast response
|
|
|
4399 time when you have a large and complex menu. You can dynamically
|
|
|
4400 control whether menu items are present through the :included and
|
|
|
4401 :config keywords. (The latter keyword implements a simple menubar
|
|
|
4402 configuration scheme, in conjunction with the variable
|
|
|
4403 `menubar-configuration'.) Many different menu-item separators (single
|
|
|
4404 or double line; solid or dashed; flat, etched-in, or etched-out) are
|
|
|
4405 available. See the chapter on menus in the Lisp Reference Manual for
|
|
|
4406 more information about all of this.
|
|
|
4407
|
|
|
4408 New functions `add-submenu' and `add-menu-button' are available.
|
|
|
4409 These supersede the older `add-menu' and `add-menu-item' functions,
|
|
|
4410 and provide a more powerful and consistent interface.
|
|
|
4411
|
|
|
4412 New convenience functions for popping up the part or all of the
|
|
|
4413 menubar in a pop-up menu are available: `popup-menubar-menu' and
|
|
|
4414 `popup-buffer-menu'.
|
|
|
4415
|
|
|
4416 Menus are now incrementally constructed greatly improving menubar
|
|
|
4417 response time.
|
|
|
4418
|
|
|
4419
|
|
|
4420
|
|
|
4421 *** Scrollbars
|
|
|
4422 --------------
|
|
|
4423
|
|
|
4424 A look-alike Motif scrollbar is now included with XEmacs. No longer
|
|
|
4425 will you have to suffer with ugly Athena scrollbars.
|
|
|
4426
|
|
|
4427 Windows can now have horizontal scrollbars. Normally they are visible
|
|
|
4428 when the window's buffer is set to truncate lines rather than wrap
|
|
|
4429 them (e.g. `(setq truncate-lines t)').
|
|
|
4430
|
|
|
4431 All windows, not only the right-most ones, can have vertical
|
|
|
4432 scrollbars.
|
|
|
4433
|
|
|
4434 The functions to change a scrollbar's width have been superseded by
|
|
|
4435 the specifier variables `scrollbar-width' and `scrollbar-height'.
|
|
|
4436 This allows their values to be controlled on a buffer-local,
|
|
|
4437 window-local, frame-local, and device-local basis. See below.
|
|
|
4438
|
|
|
4439 The scrollbars interact better with the event loop (for example, you
|
|
|
4440 can type `C-h k', do a scrollbar action, and see a description of this
|
|
|
4441 scrollbar action printed as if you had pressed a key sequence or
|
|
|
4442 selected a menu item).
|
|
|
4443
|
|
|
4444 The scrollbar behavior can be reprogrammed, by advising the
|
|
|
4445 `scrollbar-*' functions.
|
|
|
4446
|
|
|
4447
|
|
|
4448
|
|
|
4449 *** Key Bindings
|
|
|
4450 ----------------
|
|
|
4451
|
|
|
4452 The oft-used function `goto-line' now has its own binding: M-g.
|
|
|
4453
|
|
|
4454 New bindings are available for scrolling the "other" window: M-next,
|
|
|
4455 M-prior, M-home, M-end. (On many keyboards, `next' and `prior'
|
|
|
4456 labelled `PgUp' and `PgDn'.)
|
|
|
4457
|
|
|
4458 You can reactivate a deactivated Zmacs region, without having any
|
|
|
4459 other effects, with the binding M-C-z.
|
|
|
4460
|
|
|
4461 The bindings `M-u', `M-l', and `M-c' now work on the region (if a
|
|
|
4462 region is active) or work on a word, as before.
|
|
|
4463
|
|
|
4464 Shift-Control-G forces a "critical quit", which drops immediately into
|
|
|
4465 the debugger; see below.
|
|
|
4466
|
|
|
4467
|
|
|
4468
|
|
|
4469 *** Modeline
|
|
|
4470 ------------
|
|
|
4471
|
|
|
4472 The modeline can now have a 3-d look; this is enabled by default. The
|
|
|
4473 specifier variable `modeline-shadow-thickness' controls the size.
|
|
|
4474
|
|
|
4475 The modeline can now be turned off on a per-buffer, per-window,
|
|
|
4476 per-frame, or per-device basis. The specifier variable
|
|
|
4477 `has-modeline-p' controls whether the modeline is visible. See below
|
|
|
4478 for details about the vastly powerful specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
4479
|
|
|
4480 The modeline functions and variables have been renamed to be
|
|
|
4481 `*-modeline-*' rather than `*-mode-line-*'. Aliases are provided for
|
|
|
4482 all the old names.
|
|
|
4483
|
|
|
4484 Variable width fonts now work correctly when used in the modeline.
|
|
|
4485
|
|
|
4486
|
|
|
4487
|
|
|
4488 *** Minibuffer, Echo Area
|
|
|
4489 -------------------------
|
|
|
4490
|
|
|
4491 The minibuffer is no longer constrained to be one line high. The
|
|
|
4492 package rsz-minibuf.el is included to automatically resize the
|
|
|
4493 minibuffer when its contents are too big; enable this with
|
|
|
4494 `resize-minibuffer-mode'.
|
|
|
4495
|
|
|
4496 The echo area is now a true buffer, called " *Echo Area*". This
|
|
|
4497 allows you to customize the echo area behavior through
|
|
|
4498 before-change-functions and after-change-functions.
|
|
|
4499
|
|
|
4500
|
|
|
4501
|
|
|
4502 *** Specifiers
|
|
|
4503 --------------
|
|
|
4504
|
|
|
4505 XEmacs has a new concept called "specifiers", used to configure most
|
|
|
4506 display options (toolbar size and contents, scrollbar size, face
|
|
|
4507 properties, modeline visibility and shadow-thickness, glyphs, display
|
|
|
4508 tables, etc.). We are planning on converting all display
|
|
|
4509 characteristics to use specifiers, and obsoleting the clunky functions
|
|
|
4510 `frame-parameters' and `modify-frame-parameters'. Specifically:
|
|
|
4511
|
|
|
4512 -- You can specify values (called "instantiators") for particular
|
|
|
4513 "locales" (i.e. buffers, windows, frames, devices, or a global value).
|
|
|
4514 When determining what the actual value (or "instance") of a specifier
|
|
|
4515 is, the specifications that are provided are searched from most
|
|
|
4516 specific (i.e. buffer-local) to most general (i.e. global), looking
|
|
|
4517 for a matching one.
|
|
|
4518
|
|
|
4519 -- You can specify multiple instantiators for a particular locale.
|
|
|
4520 For example, when specifying what the foreground color of a face
|
|
|
4521 is in a particular buffer, you could specify two instantiators:
|
|
|
4522 "dark sea green" and "green". The color would then be dark sea
|
|
|
4523 green on devices that recognize that color, and green on other
|
|
|
4524 devices. You have effectively provided a fallback value to make
|
|
|
4525 sure you get reasonable behavior on all devices.
|
|
|
4526
|
|
|
4527 -- You can add one or more tags to an instantiator, where a tag
|
|
|
4528 is a symbol that has been previously registered with XEmacs.
|
|
|
4529 This allows you to identify your instantiators for later
|
|
|
4530 removal in a way that won't interfere with other applications
|
|
|
4531 using the same specifier. Furthermore, particular tags can
|
|
|
4532 be restricted to match only particular sorts of devices.
|
|
|
4533 Any tagged instantiator will be ignored if the device over which
|
|
|
4534 it is being instanced does not match any of its tags. This
|
|
|
4535 allows you, for example, to restrict an instantiator to a
|
|
|
4536 particular device type (X or TTY) and/or class (color, grayscale,
|
|
|
4537 or mono). (You might want to specify, for example, that a
|
|
|
4538 particular face is displayed in green on color devices and is
|
|
|
4539 underlined on mono devices.)
|
|
|
4540
|
|
|
4541 -- A full API is provided for manipulating specifiers, and full
|
|
|
4542 documentation is provided in the Lisp Reference Manual.
|
|
|
4543
|
|
|
4544
|
|
|
4545
|
|
|
4546 *** Basic Lisp Stuff
|
|
|
4547 --------------------
|
|
|
4548
|
|
|
4549 Common-Lisp backquote syntax is recognized. For example, the old
|
|
|
4550 expression
|
|
|
4551
|
|
|
4552 (` (a b (, c)))
|
|
|
4553
|
|
|
4554 can now be written
|
|
|
4555
|
|
|
4556 `(a b ,c)
|
|
|
4557
|
|
|
4558 The old backquote syntax is still accepted.
|
|
|
4559
|
|
|
4560 The new function `type-of' returns a symbol describing the type of a
|
|
|
4561 Lisp object (`integer', `string', `symbol', etc.)
|
|
|
4562
|
|
|
4563 Symbols beginning with a colon (called "keywords") are treated
|
|
|
4564 specially in that they are automatically made self-evaluating when
|
|
|
4565 they are interned into `obarray'. The new function `keywordp' returns
|
|
|
4566 whether a symbol begins with a colon.
|
|
|
4567
|
|
|
4568 `get', `put', and `remprop' have been generalized to allow you to set
|
|
|
4569 and retrieve properties on many different kinds of objects: symbols,
|
|
|
4570 strings, faces, glyphs, and extents (for extents, however, this is not
|
|
|
4571 yet implemented). They are joined by a new function `object-props'
|
|
|
4572 that returns all of the properties that have been set on an object.
|
|
|
4573
|
|
|
4574 New functions `plists-eq' and `plists-equal' are provided for
|
|
|
4575 comparing property lists (a property list is an alternating list
|
|
|
4576 of keys and values).
|
|
|
4577
|
|
|
4578 The Common-Lisp functions `caar', `cadr', `cdar', `cddr', `caaar', etc.
|
|
|
4579 (up to four a's and/or d's), `first', `second', `third', etc. (up to
|
|
|
4580 `tenth'), `last', `rest', and `endp' have been added, for more
|
|
|
4581 convenient manipulation of lists.
|
|
|
4582
|
|
|
4583 New function `mapvector' maps over a sequence and returns a vector
|
|
|
4584 of the results, analogous to `mapcar'.
|
|
|
4585
|
|
|
4586 New functions `rassoc', `remassoc', `remassq', `remrassoc', and
|
|
|
4587 `remrassq' are provided for working with alists.
|
|
|
4588
|
|
|
4589 New functions `defvaralias', `variable-alias' and `indirect-variable'
|
|
|
4590 are provided for creating variable aliases.
|
|
|
4591
|
|
|
4592 Strings have a modified-tick that is bumped every time a string
|
|
|
4593 is modified in-place with `aset' or `fillarray'. This is retrieved
|
|
|
4594 with the new function `string-modified-tick'.
|
|
|
4595
|
|
|
4596 New macro `push' destructively adds an element to the beginning of a
|
|
|
4597 list. New macro `pop' destructively removes and returns the first
|
|
|
4598 element of a list.
|
|
|
4599
|
|
|
4600
|
|
|
4601
|
|
|
4602 *** Buffers
|
|
|
4603 -----------
|
|
|
4604
|
|
|
4605 Most functions that operate on buffer text now take an optional BUFFER
|
|
|
4606 argument, specifying which buffer they operate on. (Previously, they
|
|
|
4607 always operated on the current buffer.)
|
|
|
4608
|
|
|
4609 The new function `transpose-regions' is provided, ported from GNU
|
|
|
4610 Emacs.
|
|
|
4611
|
|
|
4612 The new function `save-current-buffer' works like `save-excursion'
|
|
|
4613 but only saves the current buffer, not the location of point in
|
|
|
4614 that buffer.
|
|
|
4615
|
|
|
4616
|
|
|
4617
|
|
|
4618 *** Devices
|
|
|
4619 -----------
|
|
|
4620
|
|
|
4621 XEmacs has a new concept of "device", which is represents a particular
|
|
|
4622 X display or TTY connection. `make-frame' has a new, optional device
|
|
|
4623 parameter that allows you to specify which device the frame is to be
|
|
|
4624 created on.
|
|
|
4625
|
|
|
4626 Multiple simultaneous TTY and/or X connections may be made. The
|
|
|
4627 specifier mechanism provides reasonable behavior of glyphs, faces,
|
|
|
4628 etc. over heterogeneous device types and over devices whose individual
|
|
|
4629 capabilities may vary.
|
|
|
4630
|
|
|
4631 There is also a device type called "stream" that represents a STDIO
|
|
|
4632 device that has no redisplay or cursor-motion capabilities, such as
|
|
|
4633 the "glass terminal" that XEmacs uses when it is run noninteractively.
|
|
|
4634 There is not all that much you can do with stream devices currently;
|
|
|
4635 please let us know if there are good uses you can think of for this
|
|
|
4636 capability. (For example, log files?)
|
|
|
4637
|
|
|
4638 A new device API is provided. Functions are provided such as
|
|
|
4639 `device-name' (the name of the device, which generally is based on the
|
|
|
4640 X display or TTY file name), `device-type' (X, TTY, or stream),
|
|
|
4641 `device-class' (color, grayscale, or mono), etc. See the Lisp
|
|
|
4642 Reference Manual.
|
|
|
4643
|
|
|
4644 Many functions have been extended to contain an additional, optional
|
|
|
4645 device argument, where such an extension makes sense. In general, if
|
|
|
4646 the argument is omitted, it is equivalent to specifying
|
|
|
4647 `(selected-device)'.
|
|
|
4648
|
|
|
4649 Many previous functions and variables are obsoleted in favor of the
|
|
|
4650 device API. For example, `window-system' is obsoleted by
|
|
|
4651 `device-type', and `x-color-display-p' and friends are obsoleted by
|
|
|
4652 `device-class'.
|
|
|
4653
|
|
|
4654 *** NOTE **: The obsolete variable `window-system' is going
|
|
|
4655 to be deleted soon, probably in 19.14. Please correct all
|
|
|
4656 your code to use `device-type'.
|
|
|
4657
|
|
|
4658 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The function `x-display-visual-class'
|
|
|
4659 returns different values from previous versions of XEmacs.
|
|
|
4660
|
|
|
4661
|
|
|
4662
|
|
|
4663 *** Errors, Warnings, C-g
|
|
|
4664 -------------------------
|
|
|
4665
|
|
|
4666 There is a new warnings system implemented. Many warnings that were
|
|
|
4667 formerly displayed in various ad-hoc ways (e.g. warnings about screwy
|
|
|
4668 modifier mappings, messages about failures handling the mouse cursor
|
|
|
4669 and errors in a gc-hook) have been regularized through this system.
|
|
|
4670 The new function `warn' displays a warning before the next redisplay
|
|
|
4671 (the actually display of the warning messages is accomplished through
|
|
|
4672 `display-warning-buffer'). Both `warn' and `display-warning-buffer'
|
|
|
4673 are Lisp functions (the C code calls out to them as necessary), and
|
|
|
4674 thus you can customize the warning system.
|
|
|
4675
|
|
|
4676 Under an X display, you can press Shift-Control-G to force a "critical
|
|
|
4677 quit". This will immediately display a backtrace and pop you into the
|
|
|
4678 debugger, regardless of the settings of `inhibit-quit' and
|
|
|
4679 `debug-on-quit'.
|
|
|
4680
|
|
|
4681 C-g now works properly even on systems that don't implement SIGIO or
|
|
|
4682 for which SIGIO is broken (e.g. IRIX 5.3 and older versions of Linux).
|
|
|
4683 In addition, the SIGIO support has been fixed for many systems on
|
|
|
4684 which it didn't always work properly before (e.g. HPUX and Solaris).
|
|
|
4685
|
|
|
4686
|
|
|
4687
|
|
|
4688 *** Events
|
|
|
4689 ----------
|
|
|
4690
|
|
|
4691 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: Many event functions have been changed to
|
|
|
4692 accept and return windows instead of frames.
|
|
|
4693
|
|
|
4694 New function: `event-live-p', specifying whether `deallocate-event'
|
|
|
4695 has been called on an event.
|
|
|
4696
|
|
|
4697 The "menu event" type has been renamed to "misc-user event", and
|
|
|
4698 encompasses scrollbar events as well as menu events. We are planning
|
|
|
4699 on making it also encompass toolbar events in a future release.
|
|
|
4700
|
|
|
4701 New functions are provided for determining whether an particular
|
|
|
4702 sections of a frame: `event-over-border-p', `event-over-glyph-p',
|
|
|
4703 `event-over-modeline-p', `event-over-text-area-p', and
|
|
|
4704 `event-over-toolbar-p'. The old, kludgey methods of checking the
|
|
|
4705 window-height, the internal-border-width, etc. are unreliable and
|
|
|
4706 should not be used.
|
|
|
4707
|
|
|
4708 New functions `event-window-x-pixel' and `event-window-y-pixel' are
|
|
|
4709 provided for determining where in a particular window an event
|
|
|
4710 happened.
|
|
|
4711
|
|
|
4712 New functions `event-glyph-x-pixel' and `event-glyph-y-pixel' are
|
|
|
4713 provided for determining where in a particular glyph an event
|
|
|
4714 happened.
|
|
|
4715
|
|
|
4716 New function `event-closest-point', which returns the closest buffer
|
|
|
4717 position to the event even if the event did not occur over any text.
|
|
|
4718
|
|
|
4719 New variable `unread-command-events', superseding the older
|
|
|
4720 `unread-command-event'.
|
|
|
4721
|
|
|
4722 Many event-loop bugs have been fixed.
|
|
|
4723
|
|
|
4724
|
|
|
4725
|
|
|
4726 *** Extents
|
|
|
4727 -----------
|
|
|
4728
|
|
|
4729 The extent code has been largely rewritten. It should be faster and
|
|
|
4730 more reliable.
|
|
|
4731
|
|
|
4732 The text-property implementation has been greatly improved.
|
|
|
4733
|
|
|
4734 Some new extent primitives are provided to return the position of the
|
|
|
4735 next or previous property change in a buffer.
|
|
|
4736
|
|
|
4737 Extents can now have a parent specified; then all of its properties
|
|
|
4738 (except for the buffer it's in and its position in that buffer) come
|
|
|
4739 from that extent. Hierarchies of such extents can be created.
|
|
|
4740
|
|
|
4741 Extents now have a `detachable' property that controls what happens
|
|
|
4742 (they either get detached or shrink down to zero-length) when their
|
|
|
4743 text is deleted. Previously, such extents would always be detached.
|
|
|
4744
|
|
|
4745 The `invisible' property on extents now works.
|
|
|
4746
|
|
|
4747 `map-extents' has three additional parameters that provide more
|
|
|
4748 control over which extents are mapped.
|
|
|
4749
|
|
|
4750 `map-extents' deals better with changes made to extents in the
|
|
|
4751 buffer being mapped over.
|
|
|
4752
|
|
|
4753 A new function `mapcar-extents' (an alternative to `map-extents') has
|
|
|
4754 been provided and should be easier to use than `map-extents'.
|
|
|
4755
|
|
|
4756
|
|
|
4757
|
|
|
4758 *** Faces
|
|
|
4759 ---------
|
|
|
4760
|
|
|
4761 Faces can now be buffer-local, window-local, and device-local as well
|
|
|
4762 as frame-local, and can be further restricted to a particular device
|
|
|
4763 type or class. The way in which faces can be controlled is now based
|
|
|
4764 on the general and powerful specifier mechanism; see above.
|
|
|
4765
|
|
|
4766 The new function `set-face-property' generalizes `set-face-font',
|
|
|
4767 `set-face-foreground', etc. and takes many new optional arguments, in
|
|
|
4768 accordance with the new specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
4769
|
|
|
4770 The new functions `face-property' and `face-property-instance'
|
|
|
4771 generalize `face-font', `face-foreground', etc. and take many new
|
|
|
4772 optional arguments, in accordance with the new specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
4773 (`face-property' returns the value, if any, that was specified for a
|
|
|
4774 particular locale, and `face-property-instance' returns the actual
|
|
|
4775 value that will be used for display. See the section on specifiers.)
|
|
|
4776
|
|
|
4777 The functions `face-font', `face-foreground', `face-background',
|
|
|
4778 `set-face-font', `set-face-foreground', `set-face-background',
|
|
|
4779 etc. are now convenience functions, trivially implemented using
|
|
|
4780 `face-property' and `set-face-property' and take new optioanl
|
|
|
4781 arguments in accordance with those functions. New convenience
|
|
|
4782 functions `face-font-instance', `face-foreground-instance',
|
|
|
4783 `face-background-instance', etc. are provided and are trivially
|
|
|
4784 implemented using `face-property-instance'.
|
|
|
4785
|
|
|
4786 Inheritance of face properties can now be specified. Each individual
|
|
|
4787 face property can inherit differently from other properties, or not
|
|
|
4788 inherit at all.
|
|
|
4789
|
|
|
4790 You can set user-defined properties on faces using
|
|
|
4791 `set-face-property'.
|
|
|
4792
|
|
|
4793 You can create "temporary" faces, which are faces that disappear
|
|
|
4794 when they are no longer in use. This is as opposed to normal
|
|
|
4795 faces, which stay around forever.
|
|
|
4796
|
|
|
4797 The function `make-face' takes a new optional argument specifying
|
|
|
4798 whether a face should be permanent or temporary, and returns the
|
|
|
4799 actual face object rather than the face symbol, as in previous
|
|
|
4800 versions of XEmacs.
|
|
|
4801
|
|
|
4802 The function `face-list' takes a new optional argument specifying
|
|
|
4803 whether permanent, temporary, or both kinds of faces should be
|
|
|
4804 returned.
|
|
|
4805
|
|
|
4806 Faces have new TTY-specific properties: `highlight', `reverse',
|
|
|
4807 `alternate', `blinking', and `dim'.
|
|
|
4808
|
|
|
4809 Redisplay is smarter about dealing with face changes: changes to a
|
|
|
4810 particular face no longer cause all frames to be cleared and
|
|
|
4811 redisplayed.
|
|
|
4812
|
|
|
4813 The Edit-Faces package is provided for interactively changing faces.
|
|
|
4814 A menu item on the options menu is provided for this.
|
|
|
4815
|
|
|
4816 New functions are provided for retrieving the ascent, descent, height,
|
|
|
4817 and width of a character in a particular face.
|
|
|
4818
|
|
|
4819
|
|
|
4820
|
|
|
4821 *** Fonts, Colors
|
|
|
4822 -----------------
|
|
|
4823
|
|
|
4824 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The old "font" and "pixel" objects are gone.
|
|
|
4825 In place are new objects "font specifier", "font instance", "color
|
|
|
4826 specifier", and "color instance". Functions `font-name', `pixel-name'
|
|
|
4827 (an obsolete alias for `color-name'), etc. are now convenience
|
|
|
4828 functions for working with font and color specifiers. Old code that
|
|
|
4829 is not too sophisticated about working with font and pixel objects may
|
|
|
4830 still work, though. (For example, the idiom `(font-name (face-font
|
|
|
4831 'default))' still works.)
|
|
|
4832
|
|
|
4833 You can now extract the RGB components of a color-instance object
|
|
|
4834 (similar to the old pixel object) with the function
|
|
|
4835 `color-instance-rgb-components'. There is also a convenience function
|
|
|
4836 `color-rgb-components' for working with color specifiers.
|
|
|
4837
|
|
|
4838 If there are no more colors available in the colormap, the nearest
|
|
|
4839 existing color will be used when allocating a new color.
|
|
|
4840
|
|
|
4841
|
|
|
4842
|
|
|
4843 *** Frames
|
|
|
4844 ----------
|
|
|
4845
|
|
|
4846 What used to be called "screens" are now called "frames", for clarity
|
|
|
4847 and consistency with GNU Emacs. Aliases are provided for all the old
|
|
|
4848 screen functions and variables, to avoid introducing a huge E-Lisp
|
|
|
4849 incompatibility.
|
|
|
4850
|
|
|
4851 The frame code has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.28, providing
|
|
|
4852 improved functionality for many functions.
|
|
|
4853
|
|
|
4854
|
|
|
4855
|
|
|
4856 *** Glyphs, Images, and Pixmaps
|
|
|
4857 -------------------------------
|
|
|
4858
|
|
|
4859 Glyphs (used in various places, i.e. as begin-glyphs and end-glyphs
|
|
|
4860 attached to extents and appearing in a buffer or in marginal
|
|
|
4861 annotations; as the truncator and continuor glyphs marking line wrap
|
|
|
4862 or truncation; as an overlay at the beginning of a line; as the
|
|
|
4863 displayable element in a toolbar button; etc.) can now be
|
|
|
4864 buffer-local, window-local, frame-local, and device-local, and can be
|
|
|
4865 further restricted to a particular device type or class. The way in
|
|
|
4866 which faces can be controlled is now based on the general and powerful
|
|
|
4867 specifier mechanism; see above.
|
|
|
4868
|
|
|
4869 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The glyph and pixmap API has been completely
|
|
|
4870 overhauled. A new Lisp object "glyph" is provided and should be used
|
|
|
4871 where the old "pixmap" object would have been used. The pixmap object
|
|
|
4872 exists no longer. There are also new Lisp objects "image specifier"
|
|
|
4873 and "image instance" (an image-instance is the closest equivalent to
|
|
|
4874 what a pixmap object was). More work on glyphs and images is slated
|
|
|
4875 for 19.13. The glyph and image docs in the Lisp Reference Manual are
|
|
|
4876 incomplete and will be finished in 19.13.
|
|
|
4877
|
|
|
4878 The new function `set-glyph-property' allows setting of all the
|
|
|
4879 glyph properties (`baseline', `contrib-p', etc.). Convenience
|
|
|
4880 functions for particular properties are also provided, just like
|
|
|
4881 for faces.
|
|
|
4882
|
|
|
4883 You can set user-defined properties on glyphs using the new function
|
|
|
4884 `set-glyph-property'.
|
|
|
4885
|
|
|
4886 When displaying pixmaps, existing, closest-matching colors will be
|
|
|
4887 used if the colormap is full.
|
|
|
4888
|
|
|
4889 If the compface library is compiled into XEmacs, there is built-in
|
|
|
4890 support for displaying X-Face bitmaps. (These are typically small
|
|
|
4891 pictures of people's faces, included in a mail message through the
|
|
|
4892 X-Face: header.) VM and highlight-headers will automatically use the
|
|
|
4893 built-in X-Face support if it is available.
|
|
|
4894
|
|
|
4895 Annotations in the right margin (as well as the left margin) are now
|
|
|
4896 implemented. The left and right margin width functions have been
|
|
|
4897 superseded by the specifier variables `left-margin-width' and
|
|
|
4898 `right-margin-width', allowing much more flexible control through the
|
|
|
4899 specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
4900
|
|
|
4901 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The variable `use-left-overflow',
|
|
|
4902 for controlling annotations in the left margin, is now a specifier
|
|
|
4903 variable instead of a buffer-local variable. (There is also a new
|
|
|
4904 variable `use-right-overflow', that is complementary.)
|
|
|
4905
|
|
|
4906
|
|
|
4907
|
|
|
4908 *** Hashing
|
|
|
4909 -----------
|
|
|
4910
|
|
|
4911 Two new types of weak hashtables can be created: key-weak and
|
|
|
4912 value-weak. In a key-weak hashtable, an entry remains around
|
|
|
4913 if its key is referenced elsewhere, regardless of whether this
|
|
|
4914 is also the case for the value. Value-weak hashtables are
|
|
|
4915 complementary. (This is as opposed to the traditional weak
|
|
|
4916 hashtables, where an entry remains around only if both the
|
|
|
4917 key and value are referenced elsewhere.) New functions
|
|
|
4918 `make-key-weak-hashtable' and `make-value-weak-hashtable'
|
|
|
4919 are provided for creating these hashtables.
|
|
|
4920
|
|
|
4921 The new function `md5' is provided for performing an MD5
|
|
|
4922 hash of an object. MD5 is a secure message digest algorithm
|
|
|
4923 developed by RSA, inc.
|
|
|
4924
|
|
|
4925
|
|
|
4926
|
|
|
4927 *** Keymaps
|
|
|
4928 -----------
|
|
|
4929
|
|
|
4930 The GNU Emacs concept of `function-key-map' is now partially
|
|
|
4931 implemented. This allows conversion of function-key escape sequences
|
|
|
4932 such as `ESC [ 1 1 ~' into an equivalent human-readable keysym such as
|
|
|
4933 `F1'. This work will be completed in 19.14. The function-key map is
|
|
|
4934 device-local and controllable through the functions
|
|
|
4935 `device-function-key-map' and `set-device-function-key-map'.
|
|
|
4936
|
|
|
4937 `where-is-internal' now correctly searches minor-mode keymaps,
|
|
|
4938 extent-local keymaps, etc. As a side effect of this, menu items will
|
|
|
4939 now correctly show the keyboard equivalent for commands that are
|
|
|
4940 available through a minor-mode keymap, extent-local keymap, etc.
|
|
|
4941
|
|
|
4942 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The modifier key "Symbol" has
|
|
|
4943 been renamed to "Alt", for compatibility with the rest of the world.
|
|
|
4944 Keep in mind that on many keyboards, the key labelled "Alt" actually
|
|
|
4945 generates the "Meta" modifier. (On Sun keyboards, however, the key
|
|
|
4946 labelled "Alt" does indeed generate the "Alt" modifier, and the key
|
|
|
4947 labelled with a diamond generates the "Meta" modifier.)
|
|
|
4948
|
|
|
4949
|
|
|
4950
|
|
|
4951 *** Mouse, Active Region
|
|
|
4952 ------------------------
|
|
|
4953
|
|
|
4954 The mouse internals in mouse.el have been rewritten. Hooks have been
|
|
|
4955 provided for easier customization of mouse behavior. For example, you
|
|
|
4956 can now easily specify an action to be invoked on single-click
|
|
|
4957 (i.e. down-up without appreciable motion), double-click, drag-up, etc.
|
|
|
4958
|
|
|
4959 Some code from GNU Emacs has been ported over, generalizing some of
|
|
|
4960 the X-specific mouse stuff.
|
|
|
4961
|
|
|
4962 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The function `set-mouse-position' accepts
|
|
|
4963 a window instead of a frame.
|
|
|
4964
|
|
|
4965 New function `mouse-position' that obsoletes and is more powerful than
|
|
|
4966 `read-mouse-position'.
|
|
|
4967
|
|
|
4968 New functions `mouse-pixel-positon' and `set-mouse-pixel-position' for
|
|
|
4969 working with pixels instead of characters.
|
|
|
4970
|
|
|
4971 The active (Zmacs) region is now highlighted using the `zmacs-region-face'
|
|
|
4972 instead of the `primary-selection-face'; this generalizes what used
|
|
|
4973 to be X-specific.
|
|
|
4974
|
|
|
4975 New functions `region-active-p', `region-exists-p', and `activate-region'
|
|
|
4976 provide a uniform API for dealing with the region irrespective of
|
|
|
4977 whether the variable `zmacs-regions' is set.
|
|
|
4978
|
|
|
4979 XEmacs is now a better X citizen with respect to the primary selection:
|
|
|
4980 it does not stomp on the primary selection quite so much. This makes
|
|
|
4981 things more manageable if you set `zmacs-regions' to nil.
|
|
|
4982
|
|
|
4983
|
|
|
4984
|
|
|
4985 *** Processes
|
|
|
4986 -------------
|
|
|
4987
|
|
|
4988 Various process race conditions and bugs have been fixed. Problems
|
|
|
4989 with process termination not getting noticed until much later (if at
|
|
|
4990 all) should be gone now, as well as problems with zombie processes
|
|
|
4991 under some systems.
|
|
|
4992
|
|
|
4993 SOCKS support is now included. SOCKS is a package that allows hosts
|
|
|
4994 behind a firewall to gain full access to the Internet without
|
|
|
4995 requiring direct IP reachability.
|
|
|
4996
|
|
|
4997
|
|
|
4998
|
|
|
4999 *** Windows
|
|
|
5000 -----------
|
|
|
5001
|
|
|
5002 Windows 95 is still not out yet.
|
|
|
5003
|
|
|
5004 *** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The functions `locate-window-from-coordinates'
|
|
|
5005 and `window-edges' have been eliminated. It no longer makes sense to
|
|
|
5006 work with windows in terms of character positions, because windows can
|
|
|
5007 (and often do) have many differently-sized fonts in them, because the
|
|
|
5008 3-D modeline is not exactly one line high, etc.
|
|
|
5009
|
|
|
5010 The new functions `window-pixel-edges', `window-highest-p',
|
|
|
5011 `window-lowest-p', `frame-highest-window', and `frame-lowest-window'
|
|
|
5012 are provided as substitutes for the above-mentioned, deleted
|
|
|
5013 functions.
|
|
|
5014
|
|
|
5015 The function `window-end' now takes an optional GUARANTEE argument
|
|
|
5016 that will ensure that the value is actually correct as of the next
|
|
|
5017 redisplay.
|
|
|
5018
|
|
|
5019 The window code has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.28, providing
|
|
|
5020 improved functionality for many functions.
|
|
|
5021
|
|
|
5022
|
|
|
5023
|
|
|
5024 *** System-Specific Information
|
|
|
5025 -------------------------------
|
|
|
5026
|
|
|
5027 Georg Nikodym's dynodump package is provided, for proper unexec()ing
|
|
|
5028 on Solaris systems. Executables built on Solaris 2.3 can now run on
|
|
|
5029 Solaris 2.4 without crashing; similarly with executables built on one
|
|
|
5030 type of Sun machine and run on another.
|
|
|
5031
|
|
|
5032 AIX 4.x is supported.
|
|
|
5033
|
|
|
5034 The NeXTstep operating system is supported in TTY mode (this is still
|
|
|
5035 in beta). There are plans to port XEmacs to the NeXTstep window
|
|
|
5036 system, but it may be awhile before this is complete.
|
|
|
5037
|
|
|
5038 Problems with the `round' function causing arithmetic errors on HPUX 9
|
|
|
5039 have been fixed.
|
|
|
5040
|
|
|
5041 You can now build XEmacs as an ELF executable on Linux systems that
|
|
|
5042 support ELF.
|
|
|
5043
|
|
|
5044 Various other new system configurations are supported.
|
|
|
5045
|
|
|
5046
|
|
|
5047
|
|
|
5048
|
|
|
5049 ** Major Differences Between 19.10 and 19.11
|
|
|
5050 ============================================
|
|
|
5051
|
|
|
5052 The name has changed from "Lucid Emacs" to "XEmacs". Along with this is a
|
|
|
5053 new canonical ftp site: cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/xemacs.
|
|
|
5054
|
|
|
5055 XEmacs now has its very own World Wide Web page! It contains a
|
|
|
5056 complete list of the FTP distribution sites, the most recent FAQ,
|
|
|
5057 pointers to Emacs Lisp packages not included with the distribution, and
|
|
|
5058 other useful stuff. Check it out at http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/.
|
|
|
5059
|
|
|
5060 A preliminary New Users Guide.
|
|
|
5061
|
|
|
5062 cc-mode.el now provides the default C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
|
|
|
5063
|
|
|
5064 The primary goal of this release is stability. Very few new features have
|
|
|
5065 been introduced but lots of bugs have been fixed. Many of the Emacs Lisp
|
|
|
5066 packages have been updated.
|
|
|
5067
|
|
|
5068 Some of the new Emacs Lisp packages ---
|
|
|
5069
|
|
|
5070 tcl-mode.el: major mode for editing TCL code
|
|
|
5071
|
|
|
5072 fast-lock.el: saves and restores font-lock highlighting, greatly
|
|
|
5073 reducing the time necessary for loading a font-lock'ed
|
|
|
5074 file
|
|
|
5075
|
|
|
5076 ps-print.el: prints buffers to Postscript printers preserving the
|
|
|
5077 buffer's bold and italic text attributes
|
|
|
5078
|
|
|
5079 toolbar.el: provides a "fake" toolbar for use with XEmacs (an
|
|
|
5080 integrated one will be included with 19.12)
|
|
|
5081
|
|
|
5082
|
|
|
5083 ** Major Differences Between 19.9 and 19.10
|
|
|
5084 ===========================================
|
|
|
5085
|
|
|
5086 The GNU `configure' system is now used to build lemacs.
|
|
|
5087
|
|
|
5088 The Emacs Manual and Emacs Lisp Reference Manual now document version 19.10.
|
|
|
5089 If you notice any errors, please let us know.
|
|
|
5090
|
|
|
5091 When pixmaps are displayed in a buffer, they contribute to the line height -
|
|
|
5092 that is, if the glyph is taller than the rest of the text on the line, the
|
|
|
5093 line will be as tall as necessary to display the glyph.
|
|
|
5094
|
|
|
5095 In addition to using arbitrary sound files as emacs beeps, one can control
|
|
|
5096 the pitch and duration of the standard X beep, on X servers which allow that
|
|
|
5097 (Note: most don't.)
|
|
|
5098
|
|
|
5099 There is support for playing sounds on systems with NetAudio servers.
|
|
|
5100
|
|
|
5101 Minor modes may have mode-specific key bindings; keymaps may have an arbitrary
|
|
|
5102 number of parent maps.
|
|
|
5103
|
|
|
5104 Menus can have toggle and radio buttons in them.
|
|
|
5105
|
|
|
5106 There is a font selection menu.
|
|
|
5107
|
|
|
5108 Some default key bindings have changed to match FSF19; the new bindings are
|
|
|
5109
|
|
|
5110 Screen-related commands:
|
|
|
5111 C-x 5 2 make-screen
|
|
|
5112 C-x 5 0 delete-screen
|
|
|
5113 C-x 5 b switch-to-buffer-other-screen
|
|
|
5114 C-x 5 f find-file-other-screen
|
|
|
5115 C-x 5 C-f find-file-other-screen
|
|
|
5116 C-x 5 m mail-other-screen
|
|
|
5117 C-x 5 o other-screen
|
|
|
5118 C-x 5 r find-file-read-only-other-screen
|
|
|
5119 Abbrev-related commands:
|
|
|
5120 C-x a l add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
5121 C-x a C-a add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
5122 C-x a g add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
5123 C-x a + add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
5124 C-x a i g inverse-add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
5125 C-x a i l inverse-add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
5126 C-x a - inverse-add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
5127 C-x a e expand-abbrev
|
|
|
5128 C-x a ' expand-abbrev
|
|
|
5129 Register-related commands:
|
|
|
5130 C-x r C-SPC point-to-register
|
|
|
5131 C-x r SPC point-to-register
|
|
|
5132 C-x r j jump-to-register
|
|
|
5133 C-x r s copy-to-register
|
|
|
5134 C-x r x copy-to-register
|
|
|
5135 C-x r i insert-register
|
|
|
5136 C-x r g insert-register
|
|
|
5137 C-x r r copy-rectangle-to-register
|
|
|
5138 C-x r c clear-rectangle
|
|
|
5139 C-x r k kill-rectangle
|
|
|
5140 C-x r y yank-rectangle
|
|
|
5141 C-x r o open-rectangle
|
|
|
5142 C-x r t string-rectangle
|
|
|
5143 C-x r w window-configuration-to-register
|
|
|
5144 Narrowing-related commands:
|
|
|
5145 C-x n n narrow-to-region
|
|
|
5146 C-x n w widen
|
|
|
5147 Other changes:
|
|
|
5148 C-x 3 split-window-horizontally (was undefined)
|
|
|
5149 C-x - shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
|
|
|
5150 C-x + balance-windows
|
|
|
5151
|
|
|
5152 The variable allow-deletion-of-last-visible-screen has been removed, since
|
|
|
5153 it was widely hated. You can now always delete the last visible screen if
|
|
|
5154 there are other iconified screens in existence.
|
|
|
5155
|
|
|
5156 ToolTalk support is provided.
|
|
|
5157
|
|
|
5158 An Emacs screen can be placed within an "external client widget" managed
|
|
|
5159 by another application. This allows an application to use an Emacs screen
|
|
|
5160 as its text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided
|
|
|
5161 with Motif or Athena.
|
|
|
5162
|
|
|
5163 Additional compatibility with Epoch is provided (though this is not yet
|
|
|
5164 complete.)
|
|
|
5165
|
|
|
5166
|
|
|
5167 ** Major Differences Between 19.8 and 19.9
|
|
|
5168 ==========================================
|
|
|
5169
|
|
|
5170 Scrollbars! If you have Motif, these are real Motif scrollbars; otherwise,
|
|
|
5171 Athena scrollbars are used. They obey all the usual resources of their
|
|
|
5172 respective toolkits.
|
|
|
5173
|
|
|
5174 There is now an implementation of dialog boxes based on the Athena
|
|
|
5175 widgets, as well as the existing Motif implementation.
|
|
|
5176
|
|
|
5177 This release works with Motif 1.2 as well as 1.1. If you link with Motif,
|
|
|
5178 you do not also need to link with Athena.
|
|
|
5179
|
|
|
5180 If you compile lwlib with both USE_MOTIF and USE_LUCID defined (which is the
|
|
|
5181 recommended configuration) then the Lucid menus will draw text using the Motif
|
|
|
5182 string-drawing library, instead of the Xlib one. The reason for this is that
|
|
|
5183 one can take advantage of the XmString facilities for including non-Latin1
|
|
|
5184 characters in resource specifications. However, this is a user-visible change
|
|
|
5185 in that, in this configuration, the menubar will use the "*fontList" resource
|
|
|
5186 in preference to the "*font" resource, if it is set.
|
|
|
5187
|
|
|
5188 It's possible to make extents which are copied/pasted by kill and undo.
|
|
|
5189 There is an implementation of FSF19-style text properties based on this.
|
|
|
5190
|
|
|
5191 There is a new variable, minibuffer-max-depth, which is intended to circumvent
|
|
|
5192 a common source of confusion among new Emacs users. Since, under a window
|
|
|
5193 system, it's easy to jump out of the minibuffer (by doing M-x, then getting
|
|
|
5194 distracted, and clicking elsewhere) many, many novice users have had the
|
|
|
5195 problem of having multiple minibuffers build up, even to the point of
|
|
|
5196 exhausting the lisp stack. So the default behavior is to disallow the
|
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|
5197 minibuffer to ever be reinvoked while active; if you attempt to do so, you
|
|
|
5198 will be prompted about it.
|
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|
5199
|
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|
5200 There is a new variable, teach-extended-commands-p, which if set, will cause
|
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|
5201 `M-x' to remind you of any key bindings of the command you just invoked the
|
|
|
5202 "long way."
|
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|
5203
|
|
|
5204 There are menus in Dired, Tar, Comint, Compile, and Grep modes.
|
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|
5205
|
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|
5206 There is a menu of window management commands on the right mouse button over
|
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|
5207 the modelines.
|
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|
5208
|
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|
5209 Popup menus now have titles at the top; this is controlled by the new
|
|
|
5210 variable `popup-menu-titles'.
|
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|
5211
|
|
|
5212 The `Find' key on Sun keyboards will search for the next (or previous)
|
|
|
5213 occurrence of the selected text, as in OpenWindows programs.
|
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|
5214
|
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|
5215 The `timer' package has been renamed to `itimer' to avoid a conflict with
|
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|
5216 a different package called `timer'.
|
|
|
5217
|
|
|
5218 VM 5.40 is included.
|
|
|
5219
|
|
|
5220 W3, the emacs interface to the World Wide Web, is included.
|
|
|
5221
|
|
|
5222 Felix Lee's GNUS speedups have been installed, including his new version of
|
|
|
5223 nntp.el which makes GNUS efficiently utilize the NNTP XOVER command if
|
|
|
5224 available (which is much faster.)
|
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|
5225
|
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|
5226 GNUS should also be much friendlier to new users: it starts up much faster,
|
|
|
5227 and doesn't (necessarily) subscribe you to every single newsgroup.
|
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|
5228
|
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|
5229 The byte-compiler issues a new class of warnings: variables which are
|
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|
5230 bound but not used. This is merely an advisory, and does not mean the
|
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|
5231 code is incorrect; you can disable these warnings in the usual way with
|
|
|
5232 the `byte-compiler-options' macro.
|
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|
5233
|
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|
5234 the `start-open' and `end-open' extent properties, for specifying whether
|
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|
5235 characters inserted exactly at a boundary of an extent should go into the
|
|
|
5236 extent or out of it, now work correctly.
|
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|
5237
|
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|
5238 The `extent-data' slot has been generalized/replaced with a property list,
|
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|
5239 so it's easier to attach arbitrary data to extent objects.
|
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|
5240
|
|
|
5241 The `event-modifiers' and `event-modifier-bits' functions work on motion
|
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|
5242 events as well as other mouse and keyboard events.
|
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|
5243
|
|
|
5244 Forms-mode uses fonts and read-only regions.
|
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5245
|
|
|
5246 The behavior of the -geometry command line option should be correct now.
|
|
|
5247
|
|
|
5248 The `iconic' screen parameter works when passed to x-create-screen.
|
|
|
5249
|
|
|
5250 The user's manual now documents Lucid Emacs 19.9.
|
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|
5251
|
|
|
5252 The relocating buffer allocator is turned on by default; this means that when
|
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|
5253 buffers are killed, their storage will be returned to the operating system,
|
|
|
5254 and the size of the emacs process will shrink.
|
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|
5255
|
|
|
5256 CAVEAT: code which contains calls to certain `face' accessor functions will
|
|
|
5257 need to be recompiled by version 19.9 before it will work. The functions
|
|
|
5258 whose callers must be recompiled are: face-font, face-foreground,
|
|
|
5259 face-background, face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The symptom
|
|
|
5260 of this problem is the error "Wrong type argument, arrayp, #<face ... >".
|
|
|
5261 The .elc files generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but
|
|
|
5262 older .elc files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
|
|
|
5263
|
|
|
5264 Work In Progress:
|
|
|
5265
|
|
|
5266 - We have been in the process of internationalizing Lucid Emacs. This code is
|
|
|
5267 ***not*** ready for general use yet. However, the code is included (and
|
|
|
5268 turned off by default) in this release.
|
|
|
5269
|
|
|
5270 - If you define I18N2 at compile-time, then sorting/collation will be done
|
|
|
5271 according to the locale returned by setlocale().
|
|
|
5272
|
|
|
5273 - If you define I18N3 at compile-time, then all messages printed by lemacs
|
|
|
5274 will be filtered through the gettext() library routine, to enable the use
|
|
|
5275 of locale-specific translation catalogues. The current implementation of
|
|
|
5276 this is quite dependent on Solaris 2, and has a very large impact on
|
|
|
5277 existing code, therefore we are going to be making major changes soon.
|
|
|
5278 (You'll notice calls to `gettext' and `GETTEXT' scattered around much of
|
|
|
5279 the lisp and C code; ignore it, this will be going away.)
|
|
|
5280
|
|
|
5281 - If you define I18N4 at compile-time, then lemacs will internally use a
|
|
|
5282 wide representation of characters, enabling the use of large character
|
|
|
5283 sets such as Kanji. This code is very OS dependent: it requires X11R5,
|
|
|
5284 and several OS-supplied library routines for reading and writing wide
|
|
|
5285 characters (getwc(), putwc(), and a few others.) Performance is also a
|
|
|
5286 problem. This code is also scheduled for a major overhaul, with the
|
|
|
5287 intent of improving performance and portability.
|
|
|
5288
|
|
|
5289 Our eventual goal is to merge with MULE, or at least provide the same base
|
|
|
5290 level of functionality. If you would like to help out with this, let us
|
|
|
5291 know.
|
|
|
5292
|
|
|
5293 - Other work-in-progress includes Motif drag-and-drop support, ToolTalk
|
|
|
5294 support, and support for embedding an Emacs widget inside another
|
|
|
5295 application (where it can function as that other application's text-entry
|
|
|
5296 area). This code has not been extensively tested, and may (or may not)
|
|
|
5297 have portability problems, but it's there for the adventurous. Comments,
|
|
|
5298 suggestions, bug reports, and especially fixes are welcome. But have no
|
|
|
5299 expectations that this experimental code will work at all.
|
|
|
5300
|
|
|
5301
|
|
|
5302 ** Major Differences Between 19.6 and 19.8
|
|
|
5303 ==========================================
|
|
|
5304
|
|
|
5305 There were almost no differences between versions 19.6 and 19.7; version 19.7
|
|
|
5306 was a bug-fix release that was distributed with Energize 2.1.
|
|
|
5307
|
|
|
5308 Lucid Emacs 19.8 represents the first stage of the Lucid Emacs/Epoch merger.
|
|
|
5309 The redisplay engine now in lemacs is an improved descendant of the Epoch
|
|
|
5310 redisplay. As a result, many bugs have been eliminated, and several disabled
|
|
|
5311 features have been re-enabled. Notably:
|
|
|
5312
|
|
|
5313 Selective display (and outline-mode) work.
|
|
|
5314
|
|
|
5315 Horizontally split windows work.
|
|
|
5316
|
|
|
5317 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font displayed on that line;
|
|
|
5318 it is possible for a screen to display lines of differing heights. (Previously,
|
|
|
5319 the height of all lines was the height of the tallest font loaded.)
|
|
|
5320
|
|
|
5321 There is lisp code to scale fonts up and down, for example, to load the next-
|
|
|
5322 taller version of a font.
|
|
|
5323
|
|
|
5324 There is a new internal representation for lisp objects, giving emacs-lisp 28
|
|
|
5325 bit integers and a 28 bit address space, up from the previous maximum of 26.
|
|
|
5326 We expect eventually to increase this to 30 bit integers and a 32 bit address
|
|
|
5327 space, eliminating the need for DATA_SEG_BITS on some architectures. (On 64
|
|
|
5328 bit machines, add 32 to all of these numbers.)
|
|
|
5329
|
|
|
5330 GC performance is improved.
|
|
|
5331
|
|
|
5332 Various X objects (fonts, colors, cursors, pixmaps) are accessible as first-
|
|
|
5333 class lisp objects, with finalization.
|
|
|
5334
|
|
|
5335 An alternate interface to embedding images in the text is provided, called
|
|
|
5336 "annotations." You may create an "annotation margin" which is whitespace at
|
|
|
5337 the left side of the screen that contains only annotations, not buffer text.
|
|
|
5338
|
|
|
5339 When using XPM files, one can specify the values of logical color names to be
|
|
|
5340 used when loading the files.
|
|
|
5341
|
|
|
5342 It is possible to resize windows by dragging their modelines up and down. More
|
|
|
5343 generally, it is possible to add bindings for mouse gestures on the modelines.
|
|
|
5344
|
|
|
5345 There is support for playing sound files on HP machines.
|
|
|
5346
|
|
|
5347 ILISP version 5.5 is included.
|
|
|
5348
|
|
|
5349 The Common Lisp #' read syntax is supported (#' is to "function" as ' is to
|
|
|
5350 "quote".)
|
|
|
5351
|
|
|
5352 The `active-p' slot of menu items is now evaluated, so one can put arbitrary
|
|
|
5353 lisp code in a menu to decide whether that item should be selectable, rather
|
|
|
5354 than doing this with an `activate-menubar-hook'.
|
|
|
5355
|
|
|
5356 The X resource hierarchy has changed slightly, to be more consistent. It used
|
|
|
5357 to be
|
|
|
5358 argv[0] SCREEN-NAME pane screen
|
|
|
5359 ApplicationShell EmacsShell Paned EmacsFrame
|
|
|
5360
|
|
|
5361 now it is
|
|
|
5362
|
|
|
5363 argv[0] shell pane SCREEN-NAME
|
|
|
5364 ApplicationShell EmacsShell Paned EmacsFrame
|
|
|
5365
|
|
|
5366 The Lucid Emacs sources have been largely merged with FSF version 19; this
|
|
|
5367 means that the lisp library contains the most recent releases of various
|
|
|
5368 packages, and many new features of FSF 19 have been incorporated.
|
|
|
5369
|
|
|
5370 Because of this, the lemacs sources should also be substantially more portable.
|
|
|
5371
|
|
|
5372
|
|
|
5373 ** Major Differences Between 19.4 and 19.6
|
|
|
5374 ==========================================
|
|
|
5375
|
|
|
5376 There were almost no differences between versions 19.4 and 19.5; we fixed
|
|
|
5377 a few minor bugs and repacked 19.4 as 19.5 for a CD-ROM that we gave away
|
|
|
5378 as a trade show promotion.
|
|
|
5379
|
|
|
5380 The primary goal of the 19.6 release is stability, rather than improved
|
|
|
5381 functionality, so there aren't many user-visible changes. The most notable
|
|
|
5382 changes are:
|
|
|
5383
|
|
|
5384 - The -geometry command-line option now correctly overrides geometry
|
|
|
5385 specifications in the resource database.
|
|
|
5386 - The `width' and `height' screen-parameters work.
|
|
|
5387 - Font-lock-mode considers the comment start and end characters to be
|
|
|
5388 a part of the comment.
|
|
|
5389 - The lhilit package has been removed. Use font-lock-mode instead.
|
|
|
5390 - vm-isearch has been fixed to work with isearch-mode.
|
|
|
5391 - new versions of ispell and calendar.
|
|
|
5392 - sccs.el has menus.
|
|
|
5393
|
|
|
5394 Lots of bugs were fixed, including the problem that lemacs occasionally
|
|
|
5395 grabbed the keyboard focus.
|
|
|
5396
|
|
|
5397 Also, as of Lucid Emacs 19.6 and Energize 2.0 (shipping now) it is possible
|
|
|
5398 to compile the public release of Lucid Emacs with support for Energize; so
|
|
|
5399 now Energize users will be able to build their own Energize-aware versions
|
|
|
5400 of lemacs, and will be able to use newer versions of lemacs as they are
|
|
|
5401 released to the net. (Of course, this is not behavior covered by your
|
|
|
5402 Energize support contract; you do it at your own risk.)
|
|
|
5403
|
|
|
5404 I have not incorporated all portability patches that I have been sent since
|
|
|
5405 19.4; I will try to get to them soon. However, if you need to make any
|
|
|
5406 changes to lemacs to get it to compile on your system, it would be quite
|
|
|
5407 helpful if you would send me context diffs (diff -c) against version 19.6.
|
|
|
5408
|
|
|
5409
|
|
|
5410 ** Major Differences Between 19.3 and 19.4
|
|
|
5411 ==========================================
|
|
|
5412
|
|
|
5413 Prototypes have been added for all functions. Emacs compiles in the strict
|
|
|
5414 ANSI modes of lcc and gcc, so portability should be vastly improved.
|
|
|
5415
|
|
|
5416 Many many many many core leaks have been plugged, especially in screen
|
|
|
5417 creation and deletion.
|
|
|
5418
|
|
|
5419 The float support reworked to be more portable and ANSI conformant. This
|
|
|
5420 resulted in these new configuration parameters: HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC,
|
|
|
5421 HAVE_CBRT, HAVE_RINT, FLOAT_CHECK_ERRNO, FLOAT_CATCH_SIGILL,
|
|
|
5422 FLOAT_CHECK_DOMAIN. Let us know if you had to change the defaults on your
|
|
|
5423 architecture.
|
|
|
5424
|
|
|
5425 The SunOS unexec has been rewritten, and now works with either static or
|
|
|
5426 dynamic libraries, depending on whether -Bstatic or -Bdynamic were specified
|
|
|
5427 at link-time.
|
|
|
5428
|
|
|
5429 Small (character-sized) bitmaps can be mixed in with buffer text via the new
|
|
|
5430 functions set-extent-begin-glyph and set-extent-end-glyph. (This is actually
|
|
|
5431 a piece of functionality that Energize has been using for a while, but we've
|
|
|
5432 just gotten around to making it possible to use it without Energize. See how
|
|
|
5433 nice we are? Go buy our product.)
|
|
|
5434
|
|
|
5435 If compiled with Motif support, one can pop up dialog boxes from emacs lisp.
|
|
|
5436 We encourage someone to contribute Athena an version of this code; it
|
|
|
5437 shouldn't be much work.
|
|
|
5438
|
|
|
5439 If dialog boxes are available, then y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p use dialog boxes
|
|
|
5440 instead of the minibuffer if invoked as a result of a command that was
|
|
|
5441 executed from a menu instead of from the keyboard.
|
|
|
5442
|
|
|
5443 Multiple screen support works better; check out doc of get-screen-for-buffer.
|
|
|
5444
|
|
|
5445 The default binding of backspace is the same as delete. (C-h is still help.)
|
|
|
5446
|
|
|
5447 A middle click while the minibuffer is active does completion if you click on
|
|
|
5448 a highlighted completion, otherwise it executes the global binding of button2.
|
|
|
5449
|
|
|
5450 New versions of Barry Warsaw's c++-mode and syntax.c. Font-lock-mode works
|
|
|
5451 with C++ mode now.
|
|
|
5452
|
|
|
5453 The semantics of activate-menubar-hook has changed; the functions are called
|
|
|
5454 with no arguments now.
|
|
|
5455
|
|
|
5456 `truename' no longer hacks the automounter; use directory-abbrev-alist instead.
|
|
|
5457
|
|
|
5458 Most minibuffer handling has been reimplemented in emacs-lisp.
|
|
|
5459
|
|
|
5460 There is now a builtin minibuffer history mechanism which replaces gmhist.
|
|
|
5461
|
|
|
5462
|
|
|
5463 ** Major Differences Between 19.2 and 19.3
|
|
|
5464 ==========================================
|
|
|
5465
|
|
|
5466 The ISO characters have correct case and syntax tables now, so the word-motion
|
|
|
5467 and case-converting commands work sensibly on them.
|
|
|
5468
|
|
|
5469 If you set ctl-arrow to an integer, you can control exactly which characters
|
|
|
5470 are printable. (There will be a less crufty way to do this eventually.)
|
|
|
5471
|
|
|
5472 Menubars can now be buffer local; the function set-screen-menubar no longer
|
|
|
5473 exists. Look at GNUS and VM for examples of how to do this, or read
|
|
|
5474 menubar.el.
|
|
|
5475
|
|
|
5476 When emacs is reading from the minibuffer with completions, any completions
|
|
|
5477 which are visible on the screen will highlight when the mouse moves over them;
|
|
|
5478 clicking middle on a completion is the same as typing it at the minibuffer.
|
|
|
5479 Some implications of this: The *Completions* buffer is always mousable. If
|
|
|
5480 you're using the completion feature of find-tag, your source code will be
|
|
|
5481 mousable when you type M-. Dired buffers will be mousable as soon as you
|
|
|
5482 type ^X^F. And so on.
|
|
|
5483
|
|
|
5484 The old isearch code has been replaced with a descendant of Dan LaLiberte's
|
|
|
5485 excellent isearch-mode; it is more customizable, and generally less bogus.
|
|
|
5486 You can search for "composed" characters. There are new commands, too; see
|
|
|
5487 the doc for ^S, or the NEWS file.
|
|
|
5488
|
|
|
5489 A patched GNUS 3.14 is included.
|
|
|
5490
|
|
|
5491 The user's manual now documents Lucid Emacs 19.3.
|
|
|
5492
|
|
|
5493 A few more modes have mouse and menu support.
|
|
|
5494
|
|
|
5495 The startup code should be a little more robust, and give you more reasonable
|
|
|
5496 error messages when things aren't installed quite right (instead of the
|
|
|
5497 ubiquitous "cannot open DISPLAY"...)
|
|
|
5498
|
|
|
5499 Subdirectories of the lisp directory whose names begin with a hyphen or dot
|
|
|
5500 are not automatically added to the load-path, so you can use this to avoid
|
|
|
5501 accidentally inflicting experimental software on your users.
|
|
|
5502
|
|
|
5503 I've tried to incorporate all of the portability patches that were sent to
|
|
|
5504 me; I tried to solve some of the problems in different ways than the
|
|
|
5505 patches did, so let me know if I missed something.
|
|
|
5506
|
|
|
5507 Some systems will need to define NEED_STRDUP, NEED_REALPATH, HAVE_DREM, or
|
|
|
5508 HAVE_REMAINDER in config.h. Really this should be done in the appropriate
|
|
|
5509 s- or m- files, but I don't know which systems need these and which don't.
|
|
|
5510 If yours does, let me know which file it should be in.
|
|
|
5511
|
|
|
5512 Check out these new packages:
|
|
|
5513
|
|
|
5514 blink-paren.el: causes the matching parenthesis to flash on and off whenever
|
|
|
5515 the cursor is sitting on a paren-syntax character.
|
|
|
5516
|
|
|
5517 pending-del.el: Certain commands implicitly delete the highlighted region:
|
|
|
5518 Typing a character when there is a highlighted region replaces
|
|
|
5519 that region with the typed character.
|
|
|
5520
|
|
|
5521 font-lock.el: A code-highlighting package, driven off of syntax tables, so
|
|
|
5522 that it understands block comments, strings, etc. The
|
|
|
5523 insertion hook is used to fontify text as you type it in.
|
|
|
5524
|
|
|
5525 shell-font.el: Displays your shell-buffer prompt in boldface.
|
|
|
5526
|
