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Add ChangeLog entries for previous changes to tests dir -------------------- ChangeLog entries follow: -------------------- tests/ChangeLog addition: 2010-01-14 Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> * automated/base64-tests.el (bt-base64-encode-string): * automated/base64-tests.el (bt-base64-decode-string): * automated/base64-tests.el (for): * automated/byte-compiler-tests.el: * automated/byte-compiler-tests.el (before-and-after-compile-equal): * automated/case-tests.el: * automated/case-tests.el (downcase-string): * automated/case-tests.el (insert): * automated/case-tests.el (featurep): * automated/case-tests.el (let): * automated/case-tests.el (boundp): * automated/ccl-tests.el (ccl-test-normal-expr): * automated/ccl-tests.el (ccl-test-map-instructions): * automated/ccl-tests.el (ccl-test-suites): * automated/database-tests.el (delete-database-files): * automated/extent-tests.el (let): * automated/extent-tests.el (insert): * automated/extent-tests.el (props): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (test): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (for): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (ht): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (iterations): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (h1): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (make-hash-table): * automated/hash-table-tests.el (sxhash): * automated/lisp-tests.el: * automated/lisp-tests.el (setq): * automated/lisp-tests.el (test-setq): * automated/lisp-tests.el (my-vector): * automated/lisp-tests.el (nconc): * automated/lisp-tests.el (x): * automated/lisp-tests.el (y): * automated/lisp-tests.el (butlast): * automated/lisp-tests.el (+): * automated/lisp-tests.el (featurep): * automated/lisp-tests.el (-): * automated/lisp-tests.el (six): * automated/lisp-tests.el (three): * automated/lisp-tests.el (1): * automated/lisp-tests.el (one): * automated/lisp-tests.el (two): * automated/lisp-tests.el (0): * automated/lisp-tests.el (five): * automated/lisp-tests.el (logxor): * automated/lisp-tests.el (test1): * automated/lisp-tests.el (division-test): * automated/lisp-tests.el (for): * automated/lisp-tests.el (check-function-argcounts): * automated/lisp-tests.el (type-of): * automated/lisp-tests.el (mapcar): * automated/lisp-tests.el (z): * automated/lisp-tests.el (mapvector): * automated/lisp-tests.el (mapconcat): * automated/lisp-tests.el ([1 2 3]): * automated/lisp-tests.el (#*010): * automated/lisp-tests.el (test-harness-risk-infloops): * automated/lisp-tests.el (erase-buffer): * automated/lisp-tests.el (sym): * automated/lisp-tests.el (subseq): * automated/lisp-tests.el (length): * automated/lisp-tests.el (102): * automated/lisp-tests.el (read): * automated/lisp-tests.el (new-char): * automated/lisp-tests.el (new-load-file-name): * automated/lisp-tests.el (cl-floor): * automated/lisp-tests.el (foo): * automated/lisp-tests.el (string-variable): * automated/md5-tests.el (lambda): * automated/md5-tests.el (large-string): * automated/md5-tests.el (mapcar): * automated/md5-tests.el (insert): * automated/mule-tests.el (test-chars): * automated/mule-tests.el (existing-file-name): * automated/mule-tests.el (featurep): * automated/query-coding-tests.el (featurep): * automated/regexp-tests.el: * automated/regexp-tests.el (insert): * automated/regexp-tests.el (Assert): * automated/regexp-tests.el (string-match): * automated/regexp-tests.el (featurep): * automated/regexp-tests.el (text): * automated/regexp-tests.el (text1): * automated/regexp-tests.el ("aáa"): * automated/symbol-tests.el: * automated/symbol-tests.el (name): * automated/symbol-tests.el (check-weak-list-unique): * automated/symbol-tests.el (string): * automated/symbol-tests.el (list): * automated/symbol-tests.el (foo): * automated/symbol-tests.el (read): * automated/symbol-tests.el (eval): * automated/symbol-tests.el (fresh-keyword-name): * automated/symbol-tests.el (set): * automated/symbol-tests.el (print-gensym): * automated/symbol-tests.el (mysym): * automated/syntax-tests.el (test-forward-word): * automated/syntax-tests.el (test-backward-word): * automated/syntax-tests.el (test-syntax-table): * automated/syntax-tests.el (with-syntax-table): * automated/syntax-tests.el (Skip-Test-Unless): * automated/syntax-tests.el (with): * automated/tag-tests.el (testfile): * automated/test-harness.el: * automated/test-harness.el (test-harness-from-buffer): * automated/weak-tests.el (w): * automated/weak-tests.el (p): * automated/weak-tests.el (a): Create Assert-eq, Assert-equal, etc. These are equivalent to (Assert (eq ...)) etc. but display both the actual value and the expected value of the comparison. Use them throughout the test suite. * automated/test-harness.el (Assert): Clean up code and doc string of macro Assert.
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2 @node Reading Mail, Calendar/Diary, Sending Mail, Top
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7 XEmacs provides several mail-reading packages. Each one comes with
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10 The recommended mail-reading package for new users is VM. VM works
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11 with standard Unix-mail-format folders and was designed as a replacement
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14 XEmacs also provides a sophisticated and comfortable front-end to the
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38 consider using Gnus, VM, or MH-E instead.