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3 * Introduction
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7 primarily documents user-visible (interface) changes, but also
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8 includes internal changes of possible interest to the users. When
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9 describing new features, we try to also document ways of reverting to
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10 the old behavior, where applicable. If you dislike a recent change in
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11 how XEmacs behaves, this file might contain a remedy.
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13 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
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14 `C-c C-b' to move to previous equal level. `C-h m' will give more
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15 info about the Outline mode. Many commands are also available through
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16 the menubar.
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18 Users who would like to know which capabilities have been introduced
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19 in each release should look at the appropriate section of this file.
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20 Starting with version 20.0, XEmacs includes ChangeLogs, which can be
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21 consulted for a more detailed list of changes.
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23 N.B. The term "GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs Version
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24 19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do not
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25 say just "Emacs" as Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"] prefers, because
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26 it is clearly a more generic term.) The term "XEmacs" refers to
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27 this program or sometimes to its predecessors "Era" and "Lucid
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28 Emacs". The predecessor of all these program is called "Emacs
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37 -- The delete key now deletes forward by default.
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38 -- Shifted motion keys now select text by default.
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39 -- You can now build XEmacs with support for GTK+ widget set.
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40 -- ~/.xemacs/init.el is now the preferred location for the init file.
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41 - XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file.
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42 - Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
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43 -- Much-improved sample init.el, showing how to use many useful features.
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44 -- XEmacs support for menu accelerators has been much improved.
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45 -- Default menubar improvements.
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46 - Default menubar has many new commands and better organization.
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47 - The font-menu is now available under MS Windows.
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48 -- Dialog box improvements, including a real file dialog box.
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49 - XEmacs now has a proper file dialog box under MS Windows (and GTK)!
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50 - The old clunky file dialog box is improved.
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51 - Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes.
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52 - There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find...
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53 -- New buffer tabs.
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54 -- There is a new MS Windows installer, netinstall, ported from Cygwin.
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55 -- The subprocess quote-handling mechanism under Windows is much improved.
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56 -- Printing support now available under MS Windows.
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57 -- Selection improvements.
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58 - Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard under Windows.
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59 - MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
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60 - Motif selection support is now more correct (but slower).
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61 -- Mail spool locking now works correctly.
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62 -- International support changes.
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63 - The default coding-priority-list is now safer.
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64 - International keysyms are now supported under X.
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65 - MS Windows 1251 code page now supported.
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66 - Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic now supported.
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67 - Proper support for words in Latin 3 and Latin 4.
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68 -- Help buffers contain hyperlinks, and other changes.
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69 -- The modeline's text is now scrollable.
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70 -- The mouse wheel under MS Windows now functions correctly.
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71 -- Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
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72 - Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches.
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73 - Interactive searches always respect uppercase characters.
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74 -- Rectangle functions rewritten to avoid inserting extra spaces.
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75 -- New command `kill-entire-line' that always kills the entire line.
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76 -- Default values correctly stored in minibuffer histories.
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77 -- You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs.
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78 -- Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented.
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79 -- Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets.
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80 -- User names following a tilde can now be completed at file name prompts.
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81 -- XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD).
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82 -- X-Face support is now available under MS Windows.
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83 -- The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
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84 -- Indentation no longer indents comments that begin at column zero.
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85 -- Face and variable settings can have comments in Customize.
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86 -- New locations for early package hierarchies.
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87 -- The `auto-save' library has been greatly improved.
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88 -- New variable `mswindows-alt-by-itself-activates-menu'.
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89 -- The variable `kill-whole-line' now only takes effect interactively.
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90 -- Other init-file-related changes.
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91 - Init file in your home directory may be called `.emacs.el'.
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92 - New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
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93 -- Etags changes.
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94 - In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
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95 - New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.
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96 - New option --declarations, for C-type languages.
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97 - In C++, tags are created for "operator".
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98 - Ada now supported.
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99 - In Fortran, procedure is no longer tagged.
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100 - In Java, tags are created for "interface".
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101 - In Lisp, def-type constructs are now tagged.
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102 - In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables.
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103 - Python now supported.
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104 - New file extensions recognized: .ss, .pdb, .psw.
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109 now defaults to t. `delete-key-deletes-forward' takes effect only on
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110 the systems that offer both a backspace and a delete key. If set to
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111 nil, the key labeled "Delete" will always delete backward. If set to
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112 non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward, except on keyboards
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115 Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want
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116 to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the
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117 Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to
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118 Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard.
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122 You can turn this off by setting `shifted-motion-keys-select-region'
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123 to nil. This works based off of particular keys, not particular
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124 commands: Thus, the arrow keys will normally trigger selection when
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125 the Shift key is held down regardless of their bindings, and non-arrow
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126 keys with the same bindings (e.g. C-f) will not work this way. You
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127 can control which keys trigger shifted motion using
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128 `motion-keys-for-shifted-motion'. See also
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129 `unshifted-motion-keys-deselect-region'.
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133 XEmacs built that way uses GTK+ to draw menubars, scrollbars, and
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134 other GUI components, as well GDK for drawing text, choosing fonts,
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135 allocating colors, etc. Additionally, GTK-XEmacs supports Lisp
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136 functions for writing your own GTK programs in Emacs Lisp!
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138 To use this, build XEmacs with the `--with-gtk' configure flag. (Of
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139 course, you'll need to have the GTK+ libraries and header files on the
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140 system.) Gnome widgets and functionality are supported where
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141 available, and can be turned off.
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145 *** XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file.
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146 If it exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `.emacs' and `.emacs.el'.
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147 The file may be byte-compiled as `~/.xemacs/init.elc'.
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148
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149 If present, the `~/.xemacs/' directory may contain startup files for
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150 XEmacs packages that support it.
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151
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152 The first time you start up XEmacs, it will ask you if you would like
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153 to migrate your `.emacs' to the new location. (Your custom settings
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154 will also be moved, to `~/.xemacs/custom.el' -- see below.) If so, you
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155 will also be asked whether you would like to create a compatibility
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156 `.emacs' for backward compatibility with previous versions of XEmacs
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157 and with GNU Emacs. (This compatibility `.emacs' simply loads the new
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158 init and custom files.) Doing this is generally a good idea -- new
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159 versions of XEmacs will prefer `~/.xemacs/init.el' over `~/.emacs' in
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160 any case.
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161
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162 You can manually migrate at any time with `migrate-user-init-file',
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163 and undo any migration with `unmigrate-user-init-file'. The function
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164 `create-compatibility-dot-emacs' also lets you manually create a
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165 compatibility `.emacs'.
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166
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167 NOTE: Under MS Windows, your home directory (i.e. the directory named
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168 `~') is specified by the HOME environment variable, and defaults to
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169 C:\. To set this variable, modify AUTOEXEC.BAT under Windows 95/98,
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170 or select Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables...
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171 under Windows NT/2000.
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172
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173 *** Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
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175 Whereas customize settings were formerly stored in the regular init
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176 file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file
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177 `~/.xemacs/custom.el', completely under automatic control. This
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178 change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers
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179 automatic migration upon startup.
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180
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181 ** Much-improved sample init.el, showing how to use many useful features.
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182
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183 The sample init file, located in the `etc/' directory of the XEmacs
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184 installation, has been renamed from `sample.emacs' to `sample.init.el',
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185 and pretty much rewritten from scratch. (You can view it by selecting
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186 the menu item Help->Samples->Sample init.el.) Many of the most-useful
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187 optional features in XEmacs have been enabled, and other features that
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188 are useful but may be annoying to some are present but commented out.
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189 There is also extensive documentation on how to add your own
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190 improvements to the init file and where to find more documentation
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191 elsewhere in XEmacs. The file has been specifically designed so that
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192 most people can simply make it their own init file by copying it to
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193 ~/.xemacs/init.el, and they will be satisfied with the results.
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198 accelerators, set `menu-accelerator-enabled' to `menu-force'. Menus
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199 now have accelerators by default, currently on the first letter of the
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200 menu item unless another letter was indicated as the accelerator using
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201 %_ in the menu string. These %_ specifications are automatically
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202 removed when displaying the menu item, and are handled correctly in
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203 functions such as `normalize-menu-item-name'. Some auto-generated
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204 menus will have accelerators added dynamically, using numbers 1-9 and
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205 letters; to add this feature yourself, use the Lisp command
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206 `submenu-generate-accelerator-spec' in a menu filter. The feature
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207 `menu-accelerator-support' has been added so that packages can check
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208 whether this support exists.
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209
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210 ** Default menubar improvements.
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211
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212 *** Default menubar has many new commands and better organization.
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213
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214 The default menubar has been extensively reorganized. Many more
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215 commands are available, and they are more logically organized. The
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216 Options menu, in particular, has been significantly expanded, and almost
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217 everything on the new Cmds menu is new. (Much of the useful
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218 functionality from the `big-menubar' package has been imported.)
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219
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220 *** The font-menu is now available under MS Windows.
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221
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222 ** Dialog box improvements, including a real file dialog box.
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223
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224 *** XEmacs now has a proper file dialog box under MS Windows (and GTK)!
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225 This will appear whenever you select a menu item that requires a file
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226 as an argument.
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227
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228 *** The old clunky file dialog box is improved.
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229 The in-buffer file dialog box (visible on non-MS-Windows, non-GTK
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230 systems) is still clunky but has had many improvements to make it work
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231 significantly better.
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232
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233 *** Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes.
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234
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235 *** There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find...
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236 However, it's very experimental and needs a lot of work.
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237
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238 ** New buffer tabs.
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239
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240 You can now use buffer tabs to switch between buffers.
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241
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242 The tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in
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243 a location called the "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can
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244 disable them using the menu item `Options->Display->Buffers Tab Visible'
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245 by customizing `gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p', or by placing this in
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246 your .xemacs/init.el:
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248 (custom-set-variables '(gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p nil))
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249
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250 You can change the location of the gutter using the menu item
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251 `Options->Display->Default Gutter Location' or with (e.g.)
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253 (custom-set-variables '(default-gutter-position 'left))
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254
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255 However, currently only MS Windows supports tab widgets with
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256 orientations other than vertical, and it doesn't currently support
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257 gutters on the bottom of the frame.
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258
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259 ** There is a new MS Windows installer, netinstall, ported from Cygwin.
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260
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261 Nearly complete automation of the XEmacs install process from
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262 ftp.xemacs.org. Includes selection of Lisp packages to install, etc.
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266 Specifically, the quote-handling mechanism has been completely rewritten,
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267 and you should now be able to use single or double quotes to quote arguments
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268 just like under Unix, and expect to get correct results regardless of the
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269 shell you are using (e.g. CMD.EXE, bash from Cygwin, etc.). For example,
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270 the following command:
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271
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272 M-x grep '<<<<<<<' *.c
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273
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274 should work as intended.
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275
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276 ** Printing support now available under MS Windows.
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277
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278 The File->Print... menu item pretty-prints using the standard MS
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279 Windows printing facilities. Unfortunately it's still rather
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280 experimental. There is a separate `msprinter' device tag for MS
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281 Windows printers, and so you can control the way that faces appear on
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282 the printer by using this tag to specify device-specific face
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283 settings.
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284
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285 ** Selection improvements.
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286
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290 and `interprogram-paste-function'. You can get the old behavior by
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291 setting these to nil, and there is an option on the options menu to do
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292 this.
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293
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294 *** MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
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296 Generally selection should now do what you would expect under
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297 MS Windows: the middle mouse button will paste your current selection
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298 or the clipboard; conversions from different types of selection to the
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299 clipboard can be made; the kill-ring and friends will be updated as
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300 per X.
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301
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302 The only thing selection doesn't do is set the clipboard automatically
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303 as this would break the MS Windows model. If you want this behavior
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304 then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t.
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305
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306 *** Motif selection support is now more correct (but slower).
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307
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308 Changes have been made to allow correct operation of cut/copy/paste
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309 operations between native widgets and XEmacs buffers. However, this
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310 can lead to a lot of X traffic which slows down the performance of
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311 `C-k'. If you want the old behaviour then set
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312 `x-selection-strict-motif-ownership' to nil.
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313
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317 which moves mail out of the system's spool area into user storage. To
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318 coordinate between XEmacs, the mail delivery agent, and other mail
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319 user agents, movemail needs to properly lock the spool file before
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320 moving it. Movemail now correctly respects the --mail-locking option
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321 to configure. Moreover, movemail's locking behavior can be specified
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322 at run-time, via a new command-line option -m to movemail, or through
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323 the environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD.
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324
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325 When installing XEmacs, make sure you configure it according to your
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326 environment's mail spool locking conventions. When you're using a
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327 binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the
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328 EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable.
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329
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330 ** International support changes.
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331
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332 *** The default coding-priority-list is now safer.
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333
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334 This means that if you have no language environment set, Mule no
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335 longer automatically recognizes ISO 2022 escapes in your files. This
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336 makes editing binary files safe.
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337
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338 *** International keysyms are now supported under X.
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339
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340 This means that XEmacs running under Mule will automatically recognize
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341 the keysym `scaron' to be the lower-case `s' with caron in the Latin 2
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342 character set. (Specifically, it will bind the keysym to
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343 `self-insert' and augment its `ascii-character' property.) This is
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344 very useful with XFree under European locales as shipped by recent
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345 Linux distributions. If XEmacs is compiled without Mule support, the
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346 feature still works, but it is unaware of different character sets --
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347 it unconditionally sets the `ascii-character' property to values in
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352 It's available as coding system `windows-1251'.
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353
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354 *** Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic now supported.
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355
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356 *** Proper support for words in Latin 3 and Latin 4.
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363 The help buffers created by C-h commands now contain hyperlinks to
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364 other commands, functions and variables mentioned in the documentation.
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365 Use button2 to follow a link. Use button3 to bring up a context menu
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366 that lets you follow the link, find the source for the item, do a tag
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369 Help functions (e.g. `C-h f') now know how to print macro argument
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376 you need to set to a non-nil value. You can also choose scrolling
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382 It scrolls the XEmacs window under the pointer, not the selected
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389 This makes it easier to anticipate where consecutive C-s or C-r will
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390 place the point. If you want to disable the feature, set
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391 `isearch-highlight-all-matches' to nil.
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396 by the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while
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398 interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains
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399 uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive,
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402 The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive
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403 searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search'
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404 etc. The incremental search facility has always behaved that way.
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411 `string-rectangle', which filled all lines up to the right side of the
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412 rectangle, and `clear-rectangle', which filled even empty lines up to
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413 the left side. All functions have been rewritten to avoid inserting
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414 unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to behave the
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418 `pending-delete-mode': if this mode is active, then the string
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419 replaces the region rectangle. Otherwise, the command does not delete
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420 or overwrite any existing text. For those who want that feature but do
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430 This kills the entire line at point, regardless of whether the point
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431 is at the beginning of line, and regardless of the setting of
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432 `kill-whole-line'.
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437 value, the value is stored in history instead of an empty line. Also,
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438 you can now edit the default value by pressing the down arrow,
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439 accessing the logical "future" value. Not all minibuffer prompts have
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444 An indirect buffer shares its text with another buffer ("base
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445 buffer"), but has its own major mode, local variables, extents, and
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446 narrowing. An indirect buffer has a name of its own, distinct from
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447 those of the base buffer and all other buffers. An indirect buffer
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448 cannot itself be visiting a file (though its base buffer can be).
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449 The base buffer cannot itself be indirect.
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451 Use (make-indirect-buffer BASE-BUFFER NAME) to make an indirect buffer
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452 named NAME whose base is BASE-BUFFER. If BASE-BUFFER is itself an
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453 indirect buffer, its base buffer is used as the base for the new
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454 buffer.
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455
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456 You can make an indirect buffer current, or switch to it in a window,
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457 just as you would a non-indirect buffer.
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458
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459 The function `buffer-base-buffer' returns a buffer's base buffer or
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460 nil, if given an ordinary (non-indirect) buffer. The function
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461 `buffer-indirect-children' returns a list of the indirect children of
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462 a base buffer.
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463
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465 By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the
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466 height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to
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467 modify this behavior.
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468
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469 ** Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets.
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470 See `progress-feedback' for details. This support has been switched
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471 on by default for font-lock and some web browsing functions. If you
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472 do not like this behavior, set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area' to
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473 nil.
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474
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475 ** User names following a tilde can now be completed at file name prompts.
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476 e.g. `C-x C-f ~hni<TAB>' will complete to `~hniksic/'. To make this
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477 operation faster, a cache of user names is maintained internally.
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478
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479 The new primitives available for this purpose are functions named
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480 `user-name-completion' and `user-name-all-completions'.
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481
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482 ** XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD).
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483 It will try NAS first, then ESD, then playing native sound directly.
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484
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485 ** X-Face support is now available under MS Windows.
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486 If an X-Face library built under MS Windows is available then XEmacs
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487 will use this at build time.
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488
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479
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489 ** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
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490 It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface
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491 to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp.
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492 Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work,
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493 but have not been tested) and 7.0-beta1.
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496 This makes it easy to deal with commented out regions of code.
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497
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498 ** Face and variable settings can have comments in Customize.
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499 Customize now supports adding comments about your face and variable
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500 settings using a new menu entry. Comments for variables can also be
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501 assigned by calling `customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix
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502 argument.
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503
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504 ** New locations for early package hierarchies.
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505 XEmacs now locates the early package hierarchies at
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506 ~/.xemacs/mule-packages/ and ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/. Previously,
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507 the early packages were located in ~/.xemacs/.
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508
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509 ** The `auto-save' library has been greatly improved.
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510 (This lets you group all your auto-save files into one directory, and
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511 is provided standardly with XEmacs. See `etc/sample.init.el',
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512 available on the Help menu, for more info on how to set it up.)
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513 Specifically, it now works under MS Windows, and it uses a completely
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514 reversible encoding (basically quoted-printable), so that all
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515 filenames (as well as non-filename buffers) are successfully handled
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516 regardless of any special characters in their names.
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517
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518 ** New variable `mswindows-alt-by-itself-activates-menu'.
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519 If you set this variable to nil then pressing and releasing the Alt
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520 key under MS Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default
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521 is t. This is not to be confused with `menu-accelerator-enabled',
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522 which enables the use of Alt+<Letter> accelerators to invoke the
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523 menus.
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524
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525 ** The variable `kill-whole-line' now only takes effect interactively.
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526
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527 (This variable controls the behavior of `kill-line'.) Although this
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528 is a departure from a previous behavior in the case of setting this
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529 variable `kill-whole-line' to t, it is almost certainly what has
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530 always been intended, and most likely the old way of doing things
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531 introduced bugs.
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532
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533 ** Other init-file-related changes.
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534
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535 *** Init file in your home directory may be called `.emacs.el'.
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536
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537 Like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name the XEmacs init file
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538 located in your home directory `.emacs.el'. Formerly the name had to
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539 be `.emacs'. If you use the name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile
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540 the file in the usual way.
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541
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542 If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one
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543 that is used.
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544
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545 *** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
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479
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546
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464
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547 These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally
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548 ~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs.
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549
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550 Moreover, the `-user <user>' command-line option (which used to only
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551 work in unpredictable ways) is now equivalent to `-user-init-file
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552 ~<user>/.xemacs/init.el -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs', or
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553 `-user-init-file ~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs',
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554 whichever init file comes first.
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555
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556 ** Etags changes.
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557
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558 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
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559
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560 *** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.
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561 It is now possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the
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562 regexp with {lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags
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563 --help' prints out. This feature is useful especially for regex
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564 files, where each line contains a regular expression. The manual
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565 contains details.
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428
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566
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567 *** New option --declarations, for C-type languages.
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568 In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function
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428
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569 declarations when given the --declarations option.
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570
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479
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571 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator".
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572 The tags have the form "operator+", without spaces between the
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573 keyword and the operator.
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428
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574
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479
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575 *** Ada now supported.
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576 Tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and types.
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428
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577
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464
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578 *** In Fortran, procedure is no longer tagged.
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579
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580 *** In Java, tags are created for "interface".
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581
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479
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582 *** In Lisp, def-type constructs are now tagged.
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583 This includes "(defstruct (foo", "(defun (operator" and similar constructs.
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584
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585 *** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables.
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586 my and local variables are tagged.
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428
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587
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479
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588 *** Python now supported.
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589 def and class at the beginning of a line are tags.
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590
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479
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591 *** New file extensions recognized: .ss, .pdb, .psw.
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592 .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is
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428
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593 for PSWrap.
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594
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595
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464
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596 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.4
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428
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597 ==========================================
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598
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440
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599 ** A new portable dumper is available for beta testing.
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430
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600
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601 Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
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464
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602 initial work by Kyle Jones. To perform even the most basic editor,
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603 XEmacs requires some amount of Lisp code to be loaded. To avoid
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604 repeating the expensive loading process at every startup, XEmacs is
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605 built in a special way. Its C sources link into an executable called
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606 `temacs', which loads the bootstrap Lisp code and uses a special
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607 "unexec" call to dump the resulting memory image into a proper
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608 `xemacs' executable on disk. The unexec() process is hard to
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432
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609 implement correctly and makes XEmacs very hard to port to new
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610 operating systems, or even to new releases of old systems.
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430
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611
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464
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612 The new portable dumper uses a different approach to dumping: instead
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613 of dumping full-fledged executable, it only dumps out the initialized
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430
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614 data structures (both Lisp and C) into an external file. A normally
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464
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615 running XEmacs only needs to mmap that file and relocate a bit to get
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616 to the initialized data. In that scheme, there is no difference
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430
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617 between `temacs' and `xemacs'.
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618
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464
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619 Unfortunately, the portable dumper has not been completely finished
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620 for this release, and will not be used by default. However, if you
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621 wish to experiment with it, or if you need to compile XEmacs on a new
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622 and unsupported platform, you can test it by configuring XEmacs with
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623 `--pdump' flag.
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440
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624
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428
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625 ** Much effort has been invested to make XEmacs Lisp faster:
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626
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627 *** Many basic lisp operations are now faster.
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628 This is especially the case when running a Mule-enabled XEmacs.
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629
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630 A general overhaul of the lisp engine should produce a speedup of 1.4
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464
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631 in a non-Mule XEmacs, and 2.1 in a Mule XEmacs. These numbers were
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428
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632 obtained running `(byte-compile "simple.el")', which should be a
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633 pretty typical test of "pure" Lisp.
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634
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635 *** Lisp hash tables have been re-implemented. The Common Lisp style
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636 hash table interface has been made standard, and moved from cl.el into
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637 fast C code (See the section on hash tables in the XEmacs Lisp
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638 Reference). A speedup factor of 3 can be expected with code that
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639 makes intensive use of hash tables.
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640
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641 *** The garbage collector has been tuned, leading to a speedup of
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642 1.16.
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643
|
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464
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644 *** The byte-compiler and the byte-optimizer have been tuned to
|
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645 produce better code in many small ways.
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646
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428
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647 *** The family of functions that iterate over lists, like `memq', and
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648 `rassq', have been made a little faster (typically 1.3).
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649
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650 *** Lisp function calls are faster, by approximately a factor of two.
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651 However, defining inline functions (via defsubst) still makes sense
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652 for tight loops.
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653
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654 *** Finally, a few functions have had dramatic performance
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655 improvements. For example, `(last long-list)' is now 30 times faster.
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656
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657 Of course, your mileage will vary.
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658
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659 Many operations do not see any improvement. Surprisingly, running
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660 (font-lock-fontify-buffer) does not use the Lisp engine much at all.
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661 Speeding up your favorite slow operation is an excellent project to
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662 improve XEmacs. Don't forget to profile!
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663
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430
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664 ** Native widgets can be displayed in buffers.
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665
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666 The glyph system has been extended to allow the display of glyphs that
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667 are implemented as native window-system widgets. Thus you can embed
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668 buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
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669 buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
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670
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440
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671 All of this is still fairly experimental and there is no
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442
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672 documentation. The current APIs might change in a future version of
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673 XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS Windows. See the
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440
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674 file glyphs-test.el in the XEmacs src distribution for examples of
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675 usage.
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430
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676
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440
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677 The buffers-tab functionality and progress gauge have been implemented
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678 using this feature.
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430
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679
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464
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680 ** Case translation now supports international characters.
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681
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682 *** Instead of being lists of 256-character strings, case tables are
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683 now opaque objects. The interface to access them is almost the same,
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684 except it now works for international characters, and you can set the
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685 case pairs using `put-case-table-pair'. `set-case-table' and friends
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686 still support the old list/string based interface for backward
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687 compatibility.
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688
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689 *** As a consequence of this change, functions `downcase' and `upcase'
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690 as well as all the case-transformation commands now work with
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691 non-ASCII characters. Built-in tables cover all the Latin character
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692 sets that we support. If your language has a distinction between
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693 upper and lower case that is not handled by XEmacs/Mule, please let us
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694 know.
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695
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696 *** The code that implements case-insensitive search has been modified
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697 to respect the case table settings. This also applies to regexp
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698 search.
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699
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479
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700 ** Syntax tables may now be specified for a part of a buffer by
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701 attaching the `syntax-table' property to an extent. For compatibility
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702 with GNU Emacs, you may use the text-property interface to achieve the
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703 same result.
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704
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705 ** Values of variables `user-init-file' and `user-init-directory' are
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706 now absolute file/directory names. Previously, both variables used to
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707 be relative to `(concat "~" init-file-user)'. This turned out to be
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708 too complicated for most packages (and some core Lisp files) to use
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709 correctly. Also, the `init-file-user' variable has been obsoleted in
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710 the process.
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711
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442
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712 The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behavior.
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713
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714 ** XEmacs finally has an automated test suite!
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715 Although this is not yet very sophisticated, it is already responsible
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716 for several important bug fixes in XEmacs. To try it out, simply use
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717 the makefile target `make check' after building XEmacs.
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718
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719 ** Hash tables have been reimplemented.
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720 As was pointed out above, the standard interface to hash tables is now
|
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|
721 the Common Lisp interface, as described in Common Lisp, the Language
|
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|
722 (CLtL2, by Steele). The older interface (functions with names
|
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|
723 containing the phrase `hashtable') will continue to work, but the
|
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|
724 preferred interface now has names containing the phrase `hash-table'.
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725
|
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726 Here's the executive overview: create hash tables using
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|
|
727 make-hash-table, and use gethash, puthash, remhash, maphash and
|
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|
728 clrhash to manipulate entries in the hash table. See the (updated)
|
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729 Lisp Reference Manual for details.
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730
|
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731 ** Lisp code handles circular lists much more robustly.
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|
732 Many basic lisp functions used to loop forever when given a circular
|
|
|
733 list, expecting you to C-g (quit) out of the loop. Now this is more
|
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734 likely to trigger a `circular-list' error. Printing a circular list
|
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735 now results in something like this:
|
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736
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737 (let ((x (cons 'foo 'foo)))
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738 (setcdr x x)
|
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739 x)
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|
740 => (foo ... <circular list>)
|
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741
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742 An extra bonus is that checking for circularities is not just
|
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743 friendlier, but actually faster than checking for C-g.
|
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744
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430
|
745 ** Functions for decoding base64 encoding are now available; see
|
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746 `base64-encode-region', `base64-encode-string', `base64-decode-region'
|
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|
747 and `base64-decode-string'.
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428
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748
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440
|
749 ** The functions `read-string', `read-expression', `eval-minibuffer',
|
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750 `read-variable', `read-command', `read-function', `read-number',
|
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751 `read-shell-command', `read-from-minibuffer', and `completing-read'
|
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752 now take an additional argument which specifies the default value. If
|
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753 this argument is non-nil, it should be a string; that string is used
|
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754 in two ways:
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755
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464
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756 * It is returned if the user enters empty input.
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757 * It is available as the logical "future" entry, by pressing the down
|
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|
758 arrow.
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440
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759
|
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760 ** LDAP changes.
|
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761
|
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|
762 *** The LDAP interface now consists of two layers, a low-level layer
|
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763 that closely matches the LDAP C API, and a more convenient
|
|
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764 higher-level set of functions.
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765
|
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766 *** The low-level functions that used to be named *-internal are now
|
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|
767 named more simply: `ldap-open', `ldap-close', `ldap-search-basic',
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768 `ldap-add', and `ldap-modify'. They should be used directly for very
|
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769 specific purposes (such as multiple operations on a connection) only.
|
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770
|
|
|
771 *** The higher-level functions provide a more convenient way to access
|
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772 LDAP directories hiding the subtleties of handling the connection,
|
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|
773 translating arguments and ensuring compliance with LDAP
|
|
|
774 internationalization rules and formats (currently partly implemented
|
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|
775 only.) This layer provides atomic operations for searches,
|
|
|
776 modification, addition and deletion of multiple entries at once:
|
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777 `ldap-search-entries', `ldap-add-entries', `ldap-delete-entries', and
|
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778 `ldap-modify-entries'.
|
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|
779
|
|
|
780 *** To maintain compatibility with previous code, the now obsolete
|
|
|
781 function `ldap-search' is now merely a wrapper that calls either
|
|
|
782 `ldap-search-basic' or `ldap-search-entries'. Please don't use the
|
|
|
783 `ldap-search' function in your new programs -- a direct call to one of
|
|
|
784 the two replacements is more efficient and unambiguous.
|
|
|
785
|
|
430
|
786 ** The arguments to `locate-file' are now more Lisp-like. As before,
|
|
|
787 the usage is:
|
|
428
|
788
|
|
|
789 (locate-file FILENAME PATH-LIST &optional SUFFIXES MODE)
|
|
|
790
|
|
|
791 Except that SUFFIXES are now a list of strings instead of a single,
|
|
|
792 colon-separated string. MODE is now a symbol or a list of symbols
|
|
|
793 (symbols `exists', `executable', `writable', and `readable' are
|
|
|
794 supported) instead of an integer code. See the documentation for
|
|
|
795 details. Of course, the old form is still accepted for backward
|
|
|
796 compatibility.
|
|
|
797
|
|
|
798 Several bugs in locate-file have been fixed, most notably its failure
|
|
|
799 to call expand-file-name on elements of PATH-LIST. Because of that
|
|
|
800 elements of load-path of the form "~/..." used to not work.
|
|
|
801 locate-file is now guaranteed to expand files during its course of
|
|
|
802 operation.
|
|
|
803
|
|
|
804 ** `translate-region' has been improved in several ways. Its TABLE
|
|
|
805 argument used to be a 256-character string. In addition to this, it
|
|
|
806 can now also be a vector or a char-table, which makes the function
|
|
464
|
807 useful for Mule, which it wasn't. If TABLE is a vector or a generic
|
|
428
|
808 char-table, you can map characters to strings instead of to other
|
|
|
809 characters. For instance:
|
|
|
810
|
|
|
811 (let ((table (make-char-table 'generic)))
|
|
|
812 (put-char-table ?a "the letter a" table)
|
|
|
813 (put-char-table ?b "" table)
|
|
|
814 (put-char-table ?c ?\n table)
|
|
|
815 (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table))
|
|
|
816
|
|
430
|
817 ** The new form `ignore-file-errors', similar to `ignore-errors' may
|
|
|
818 be used as a short-hand for condition-case when you wish to ignore
|
|
|
819 file-related error. For example:
|
|
|
820
|
|
|
821 (ignore-file-errors (delete-file "foo"))
|
|
|
822
|
|
|
823 ** The first argument to `intern-soft' may now also be a symbol, like
|
|
|
824 with `unintern'. If given a symbol, `intern-soft' will look for that
|
|
|
825 exact symbol rather than for any string. This is useful when you want
|
|
|
826 to check whether a specific symbol is interned in an obarray, e.g.:
|
|
|
827
|
|
|
828 (intern "foo")
|
|
|
829 (intern-soft "foo")
|
|
|
830 => foo
|
|
|
831 (intern-soft (make-symbol "foo"))
|
|
|
832 => nil
|
|
|
833
|
|
428
|
834 ** The `keywordp' function now returns non-nil only on symbols
|
|
|
835 interned in the global obarray. For example:
|
|
|
836
|
|
|
837 (keywordp (intern ":foo" [0]))
|
|
|
838 => nil
|
|
|
839 (keywordp (intern ":foo")) ; The same as (keywordp :foo)
|
|
|
840 => t
|
|
|
841
|
|
442
|
842 This behavior is compatible with other code which treats symbols
|
|
428
|
843 beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the
|
|
464
|
844 global obarray. `keywordp' used to wrongly return t in both above
|
|
|
845 cases.
|
|
|
846
|
|
|
847 ** The function `replace-in-string' has been rewritten to use
|
|
|
848 `replace-match'. This not only makes it much faster, but adds all the
|
|
|
849 features of `replace-match'.
|
|
428
|
850
|
|
442
|
851 ** New variables `this-command-properties' and
|
|
|
852 `last-command-properties' are now available for communication between
|
|
|
853 consecutive commands. Commands should use these to communicate with
|
|
|
854 the pre/post-command hooks, subsequent commands, wrapping commands,
|
|
|
855 etc. in preference to looking at and/or setting `this-command'.
|
|
|
856
|
|
|
857 ** New functions `add-one-shot-hook' and `add-local-one-shot-hook' make
|
|
|
858 it possible to add a "one-shot" hook, which is to say a hook that runs
|
|
|
859 only once, and automatically removes itself after the first time it
|
|
|
860 has run.
|
|
|
861
|
|
|
862 ** The descriptor that specifies the text of a menu item can now be an
|
|
464
|
863 evaluated expression. This makes it parallel with other descriptors,
|
|
|
864 which can also be expressions.
|
|
442
|
865
|
|
428
|
866
|
|
|
867 * Changes in XEmacs 21.0
|
|
|
868 ========================
|
|
|
869
|
|
|
870 ** XEmacs has been unbundled into constituent installable packages.
|
|
|
871 See the Info documentation under "Packages" for more information.
|
|
|
872 See the file `etc/PACKAGES' in the distribution for a partial list of
|
|
|
873 packages available at the time of the 21.0 release.
|
|
|
874
|
|
|
875 ** XEmacs is now supported under Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
|
|
|
876 NT operating systems. For starters, look at the XEmacs on Windows FAQ
|
|
|
877 at <URL:http://jagor.srce.hr/~hniksic/xemacs-on-windows-faq.txt>. To
|
|
|
878 discuss Windows-specific issues, subscribe to the mailing list at
|
|
|
879 <xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org>.
|
|
|
880
|
|
|
881 ** XEmacs will now use `XEmacs' as its application class if it finds
|
|
|
882 any `XEmacs' resources in the resource database. Otherwise, it will
|
|
|
883 continue to use the `Emacs' class.
|
|
|
884
|
|
|
885 ** The options menu has been ported to Custom.
|
|
|
886 This means that each entry in the options menu acts as if you had customized
|
|
|
887 the corresponding variable by hand. ### WARNING: there is currently no
|
|
|
888 upgrading function to help you port your old options settings to the new
|
|
|
889 format. Consequently, if you want to modify the options for XEmacs 21, you
|
|
|
890 will have to set them all again through the menu, and remove the code loading
|
|
|
891 .xemacs-options from your .emacs.
|
|
|
892
|
|
|
893 ** When the Zmacs region is active, `M-x query-replace' and the other
|
|
|
894 replace commands now operate on the region contents only.
|
|
|
895
|
|
|
896 ** XEmacs now is able to choose X visuals and use private colormaps.
|
|
|
897 The '-visual <visualStr>' command line option or the '.EmacsVisual'
|
|
|
898 Xresource controls which visual XEmacs will use, and
|
|
|
899 '-privateColormap' or '.privateColormap' will force XEmacs to create a
|
|
|
900 private colormap for use. The syntax for the visual string is
|
|
|
901 "<visual><bitdepth>" where <visual> is one of 'StaticColor',
|
|
|
902 'TrueColor', 'GrayScale', 'PseudoColor' or 'DirectColor' and
|
|
|
903 <bitdepth> is the appropriate number of bits per pixel. If an invalid
|
|
|
904 or non-supported combination is entered, XEmacs attempts to find a happy
|
|
|
905 medium. The X creation mechanism will then determine if it needs to
|
|
|
906 create a colormap for use, or the presence of the private flags will
|
|
|
907 force it to create it.
|
|
|
908
|
|
|
909 ** The `imenu' package has been ported to XEmacs and is available as a
|
|
|
910 package.
|
|
|
911
|
|
|
912 ** `echo-keystrokes' can now be a floating-point number, so that you
|
|
|
913 can set it to intervals shorter than one second.
|
|
|
914
|
|
|
915 (setq echo-keystrokes 0.1)
|
|
|
916
|
|
|
917 ** The new command `center-to-window-line' works like `recenter'
|
|
|
918 (bound to `C-l'), only it does not redisplay the whole display area.
|
|
|
919
|
|
|
920 ** The M-. command will now first search through exact tags matches,
|
|
|
921 and then through inexact matches, as one would expect.
|
|
|
922
|
|
|
923 ** The new variable `user-full-name' can be used to customize one's
|
|
|
924 name when using the Emacs mail and news reading facilities.
|
|
|
925
|
|
|
926 Normally, `user-full-name' is a function that returns the full name of
|
|
|
927 a user or UID, as specified by the system -- for instance,
|
|
|
928 (user-full-name "root") returns something like "Super-User". However,
|
|
|
929 when the function is called without arguments, it will return the
|
|
|
930 value of the `user-full-name' variable. The `user-full-name' variable
|
|
|
931 is initialized using the environment variable NAME and (failing that)
|
|
|
932 the user's system name.
|
|
|
933
|
|
|
934 The behavior of the `user-full-name' function with an argument
|
|
|
935 specified is unchanged.
|
|
|
936
|
|
|
937 ** The new command `M-x customize-changed-options' lets you customize
|
|
|
938 all the options whose default values have changed in recent Emacs
|
|
|
939 versions. You specify a previous Emacs version number as argument,
|
|
|
940 and the command creates a customization buffer showing all the
|
|
|
941 customizable options whose default values were changed since that
|
|
|
942 version.
|
|
|
943
|
|
|
944 If you don't specify a particular version number argument, then the
|
|
|
945 customization buffer shows all the customizable options for which
|
|
|
946 Emacs versions of changes are recorded.
|
|
|
947
|
|
|
948 ** The new command `add-log-convert' can be used to convert the
|
|
|
949 old-style (pre-20.3) ChangeLog buffers to new style, for
|
|
|
950 consistency. A reminder: if you wish to revert to old-style
|
|
|
951 ChangeLogs instead, customize the value of `add-log-time-format'
|
|
|
952 variable.
|
|
|
953
|
|
|
954 ** The new command `zap-up-to-char' is now available. It is similar
|
|
|
955 to `zap-to-char', except that it does not delete the searched-for
|
|
|
956 character. It is not bound to a key by default.
|
|
|
957
|
|
|
958 ** You can now store a number into a register with `C-u NUMBER C-x r n'
|
|
|
959 REG, increment it by INC with `C-u INC C-x r + REG' (to increment by
|
|
|
960 one, omit C-u INC), and insert it in the buffer with `C-x r g REG'.
|
|
|
961 This is useful for writing keyboard macros.
|
|
|
962
|
|
|
963 ** The M-: command, when given a prefix argument, will now insert its
|
|
|
964 result to the current buffer.
|
|
|
965
|
|
|
966 ** The `C-h c' command, when given a prefix argument, will now insert
|
|
|
967 the message into the current buffer.
|
|
|
968
|
|
|
969 ** Horizontally split windows may now be dragged using the mouse.
|
|
|
970 Because of this, the dividers between vertical windows are always
|
|
|
971 visible. To turn it off, set `vertical-divider-always-visible-p' to
|
|
|
972 nil.
|
|
|
973
|
|
|
974 ** XEmacs/Mule (internationalization) changes.
|
|
|
975
|
|
|
976 *** Mule support now works on TTY's. Use `set-terminal-coding-system'
|
|
|
977 and `set-keyboard-coding-system' to specify the coding system of your
|
|
|
978 display and keyboard.
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 *** Egg/SJ3 input method is now officially supported. Quail and
|
|
|
981 Egg/Skk have been available through the generalized Leim since 20.3.
|
|
|
982
|
|
|
983 *** Localized Japanese menubars are available if XEmacs is built with
|
|
|
984 XFONTSET and either the X11 libraries are built with X_LOCALE defined
|
|
|
985 or the native C libraries support Japanese localization. This has
|
|
|
986 been available since 20.3, only it hasn't been announced before.
|
|
|
987
|
|
|
988 ** Jamie Zawinski's `gdb-highlight' extension is now distributed with
|
|
|
989 the `debug' package. gdb-highlight makes most objects printed in a
|
|
|
990 gdb buffer be mouse-sensitive: as text shows up in the buffer, it is
|
|
|
991 parsed, and objects which are recognized have context-sensitive
|
|
|
992 commands attached to them. To use it, add the following to `.emacs':
|
|
|
993
|
|
|
994 (add-hook 'gdb-mode-hook (lambda () (require 'gdb-highlight)))
|
|
|
995
|
|
|
996 ** The package popper.el is now included in the edit-utils package.
|
|
|
997 It has been greatly enhanced with respect to the one once included
|
|
|
998 with the ilisp package and should work well under XEmacs 21.0.
|
|
|
999
|
|
|
1000 ** Gnuserv changes
|
|
|
1001
|
|
|
1002 *** Like the old 'gnudoit' program. Gnuclient -batch now can read from stdin.
|
|
|
1003
|
|
|
1004 *** Gnuclient -batch no longer breaks off the output at the first LF.
|
|
|
1005
|
|
|
1006 ** C mode changes
|
|
|
1007
|
|
|
1008 *** Multiline macros are now handled, both as they affect indentation,
|
|
|
1009 and as recognized syntax. New syntactic symbol cpp-macro-cont is
|
|
|
1010 assigned to second and subsequent lines of a multiline macro
|
|
|
1011 definition.
|
|
|
1012
|
|
|
1013 *** A new style "user" which captures all non-hook-ified
|
|
|
1014 (i.e. top-level) .emacs file variable setings and customizations.
|
|
|
1015 Style "cc-mode" is an alias for "user" and is deprecated. "gnu" style
|
|
|
1016 is still the default however.
|
|
|
1017
|
|
|
1018 *** "java" style now conforms to Sun's JDK coding style.
|
|
|
1019
|
|
|
1020 *** There are new commands c-beginning-of-defun, c-end-of-defun which
|
|
|
1021 are alternatives which you could bind to C-M-a and C-M-e if you prefer
|
|
|
1022 them. They do not have key bindings by default.
|
|
|
1023
|
|
|
1024 *** New and improved implementations of M-a (c-beginning-of-statement)
|
|
|
1025 and M-e (c-end-of-statement).
|
|
|
1026
|
|
|
1027 *** C++ namespace blocks are supported, with new syntactic symbols
|
|
|
1028 namespace-open, namespace-close, and innamespace.
|
|
|
1029
|
|
|
1030 *** File local variable settings of c-file-style and c-file-offsets
|
|
|
1031 makes the style variables local to that buffer only.
|
|
|
1032
|
|
|
1033 *** New indentation functions c-lineup-close-paren,
|
|
|
1034 c-indent-one-line-block, c-lineup-dont-change.
|
|
|
1035
|
|
|
1036 *** Improvements (hopefully!) to the way CC Mode is loaded. You
|
|
|
1037 should now be able to do a (require 'cc-mode) to get the entire
|
|
|
1038 package loaded properly for customization in your .emacs file. A new
|
|
|
1039 variable c-initialize-on-load controls this and is t by default.
|
|
|
1040
|
|
|
1041 ** In Text mode, now only blank lines separate paragraphs.
|
|
|
1042 This makes it possible to get the full benefit of Adaptive Fill mode
|
|
|
1043 in Text mode, and other modes derived from it (such as Mail mode).
|
|
|
1044 TAB in Text mode now runs the command indent-relative; this makes a
|
|
|
1045 practical difference only when you use indented paragraphs.
|
|
|
1046
|
|
|
1047 As a result, the old Indented Text mode is now identical to Text mode,
|
|
|
1048 and is an alias for it.
|
|
|
1049
|
|
|
1050 If you want spaces at the beginning of a line to start a paragraph,
|
|
|
1051 use the new mode, Paragraph Indent Text mode.
|
|
|
1052
|
|
|
1053 ** Changes to Gnus, the XEmacs newsreader.
|
|
|
1054
|
|
|
1055 *** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
|
|
|
1056 added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
|
|
|
1057 Gnus manual for the full story.
|
|
|
1058
|
|
|
1059 *** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
|
|
|
1060 before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
|
|
|
1061 group, which is created automatically.
|
|
|
1062
|
|
|
1063 *** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
|
|
|
1064 values.
|
|
|
1065
|
|
|
1066 *** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
|
|
|
1067
|
|
|
1068 *** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
|
|
|
1069 outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
|
|
|
1070
|
|
|
1071 *** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
|
|
|
1072 `C-u C-c C-c'.
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1073
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1074 *** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
|
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1075
|
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|
1076 *** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
|
|
|
1077 re-highlighting of the article buffer.
|
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1078
|
|
|
1079 *** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
|
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|
1080
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|
|
1081 *** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
|
|
|
1082 Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
|
|
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1083
|
|
|
1084 *** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
|
|
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1085 `a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
|
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1086
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|
|
1087 *** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
|
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|
1088 control over simplification.
|
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1089
|
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|
1090 *** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
|
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1091
|
|
|
1092 *** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
|
|
|
1093 limit.
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1094
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|
|
1095 *** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
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1096
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|
1097 *** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
|
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1098
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|
|
1099 *** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed.
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|
1100 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
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1101 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
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1102
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1103 *** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
|
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1104 `a' forces normal posting method.
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1105
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1106 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
|
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1107 -- `W d'.
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1108
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|
|
1109 *** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
|
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1110 to a non-nil value.
|
|
|
1111
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|
|
1112 *** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
|
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|
1113 where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
|
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1114
|
|
|
1115 *** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
|
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|
1116 has been added.
|
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1117
|
|
|
1118 *** A history of where mails have been split is available.
|
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|
1119
|
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|
1120 *** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
|
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|
1121
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|
1122 *** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
|
|
|
1123 `gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
|
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1124
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|
1125 *** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
|
|
|
1126 `message-cite-original-without-signature'.
|
|
|
1127
|
|
|
1128 *** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
|
|
|
1129
|
|
|
1130 *** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
|
|
|
1131 been added.
|
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1132
|
|
|
1133 *** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
|
|
|
1134 `gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
|
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|
1135
|
|
|
1136 *** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
|
|
|
1137 updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
|
|
|
1138
|
|
|
1139 *** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
|
|
|
1140
|
|
|
1141 *** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
|
|
|
1142
|
|
|
1143 *** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.
|
|
|
1144
|
|
|
1145 ** The `dir' files are no longer essential for functioning of the Info
|
|
|
1146 subsystem. If the `dir' file does not exist in an Info directory, the
|
|
|
1147 relevant information will be generated on-the-fly.
|
|
|
1148
|
|
|
1149 This behavior can be customized, look for `Info-auto-generate-directory'
|
|
|
1150 and `Info-save-auto-generated-dir' in the `info' customization group.
|
|
|
1151
|
|
|
1152
|
|
|
1153 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.0
|
|
|
1154 ==========================================
|
|
|
1155
|
|
|
1156 ** It is now possible to build XEmacs with support for 31-bit Lisp
|
|
|
1157 integers (normally, Lisp integers are only 28 bits wide on 32-bit
|
|
|
1158 machines.) Configure with --use-minimal-tagbits to test. With this
|
|
|
1159 change, the maximum buffer size on 32-bit machines is increased from
|
|
|
1160 128M to 1G. This setting will be made default in a future XEmacs
|
|
|
1161 version.
|
|
|
1162
|
|
|
1163 ** Specifier changes.
|
|
|
1164
|
|
|
1165 *** When instantiating a specifier, the window locale now has a higher
|
|
|
1166 precedence than the buffer locale. This is because the window locale
|
|
|
1167 is more specific than the buffer locale.
|
|
|
1168
|
|
|
1169 *** The new macro `let-specifier' can be used to temporarily add
|
|
|
1170 specifications to specifiers. See the documentation for details.
|
|
|
1171
|
|
|
1172 *** The new specifiers `vertical-scrollbar-visible-p' and
|
|
|
1173 `horizontal-scrollbar-visible-p' may be used to control scrollbar
|
|
|
1174 visibility. Previously, the only way to remove a scrollbar was to set
|
|
|
1175 its size to 0. This method is still supported for backward
|
|
|
1176 compatibility.
|
|
|
1177
|
|
|
1178 *** The new specifiers `scrollbar-on-left-p' and `scrollbar-on-top-p'
|
|
|
1179 may be used to control the position of the vertical and horizontal
|
|
|
1180 toolbar. Previously, their position could be changed only through the
|
|
|
1181 use of X resources.
|
|
|
1182
|
|
|
1183 *** The new draggable vertical dividers between windows may be turned
|
|
|
1184 off using the `vertical-divider-always-visible-p' specifier. When
|
|
|
1185 this is set to nil, the vertical dividers between windows are shown
|
|
|
1186 only when needed, and they are not draggable.
|
|
|
1187
|
|
|
1188 Other properties of the vertical dividers may be controlled using
|
|
|
1189 `vertical-divider-shadow-thickness', `vertical-divider-line-width' and
|
|
|
1190 `vertical-divider-spacing' specifiers, which see.
|
|
|
1191
|
|
|
1192 ** Frame focus management changes.
|
|
|
1193
|
|
|
1194 *** When the variable focus-follows-mouse is non-nil, `select-frame'
|
|
|
1195 no longer permanently selects a different frame. The frame selection
|
|
|
1196 is temporary and is reverted when the current command terminates, much
|
|
|
1197 like the buffer selected by `set-buffer'. This is the same as in FSF
|
|
|
1198 Emacs.
|
|
|
1199
|
|
|
1200 *** The new function `focus-frame' sets the window system focus to
|
|
|
1201 FRAME (and selects it), regardless of the value of
|
|
|
1202 `focus-follows-mouse'. Doing this is not well behaved, so be
|
|
|
1203 absolutely sure that you want this.
|
|
|
1204
|
|
|
1205 The code that uses `select-frame' only to get the window manager focus
|
|
|
1206 should be changed to use `set-frame-focus' instead, so that they keep
|
|
|
1207 working when `focus-follows-mouse' is non-nil.
|
|
|
1208
|
|
|
1209 *** The special forms `save-selected-frame' and `with-selected-frame'
|
|
|
1210 can now be used to temporarily change selected frame.
|
|
|
1211
|
|
|
1212 *** The behavior of `other-frame' command (`C-x 5 o') is unaffected by
|
|
|
1213 these changes.
|
|
|
1214
|
|
|
1215 ** The function `select-window' now has an optional second argument
|
|
|
1216 NORECORD which if non-nil inhibits the recording of a buffer change.
|
|
|
1217
|
|
|
1218 ** The function `vertical-motion' now correctly handles the second,
|
|
|
1219 optional WINDOW argument. A new third argument PIXELS, if non-nil,
|
|
|
1220 indicates that the returned motion should be in pixels.
|
|
|
1221
|
|
|
1222 ** The new function `vertical-motion-pixels' is similar to
|
|
|
1223 vertical-motion but takes as input a vertical motion in pixels.
|
|
|
1224
|
|
|
1225 ** The new functions window-text-area-pixel-{width,height,edges} can
|
|
|
1226 be used to obtain information about the text-displaying area of a
|
|
|
1227 window.
|
|
|
1228
|
|
|
1229 ** The new functions `shrink-window-pixels' and `enlarge-window-pixels'
|
|
|
1230 can be used to adjust the size of a window by a pixel amount.
|
|
|
1231
|
|
|
1232 ** The new function `window-displayed-text-pixel-height' can be used
|
|
|
1233 to determine the height of the text actually displayed in a window.
|
|
|
1234
|
|
|
1235 ** The arithmetic comparison functions <, >, =, /= now accept a
|
|
|
1236 variable number of arguments.
|
|
|
1237
|
|
|
1238 This means that if you want to test whether A < B < C, you can write
|
|
|
1239 it as (< A B C) instead of (and (< A B) (< B C)). Likewise,
|
|
|
1240 (apply #'> LIST) now tests if LIST is monotonously increasing -- and
|
|
|
1241 so on.
|
|
|
1242
|
|
|
1243 ** The XEmacs hashtables now have a consistent read/print syntax.
|
|
|
1244 This means that a hashtable will be readably printed in a
|
|
|
1245 structure-like form:
|
|
|
1246
|
|
|
1247 #s(hashtable size 2 data (key1 value1 key2 value2))
|
|
|
1248
|
|
|
1249 When XEmacs reads this form, it will create a new hashtable according
|
|
|
1250 to description. This allows you to easily dump hashtables to files
|
|
|
1251 using `prin1', and read them back in using `read'.
|
|
|
1252
|
|
|
1253 If `print-readably' is non-nil, a more relaxed syntax is used; for
|
|
|
1254 instance:
|
|
|
1255
|
|
|
1256 #<hashtable size 2/13 data (key1 value1 key2 value2) 0x874d>
|
|
|
1257
|
|
|
1258 ** It is now possible to build XEmacs with LDAP support.
|
|
|
1259 You will need to install a LDAP library first. The following have
|
|
|
1260 been tested:
|
|
|
1261 - LDAP 3.3 from the University of Michigan
|
|
|
1262 (get it from <URL:http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/>)
|
|
|
1263 - OpenLDAP 1.0.3 from the OpenLDAP Foundation
|
|
|
1264 (get it from <URL:http://www.openldap.org/>)
|
|
|
1265 - LDAP SDK 1.0 from Netscape Corp.
|
|
|
1266 (get it from <URL:http://developer.netscape.com/>)
|
|
|
1267
|
|
|
1268 ** When profiling is in effect, a call-count of all recorded functions
|
|
|
1269 is now calculated. This information is stored in
|
|
|
1270 `call-count-profile-table', and is utilized by `profile-results' as
|
|
|
1271 well as the new command `profile-call-count-results'.
|
|
|
1272
|
|
|
1273 ** It is now an error to change the value of a symbol whose name
|
|
|
1274 starts with a colon, if it is interned in the standard obarray.
|
|
|
1275
|
|
|
1276 However, setting such a symbol to its proper value, which is that
|
|
|
1277 symbol itself, is not an error. This is for the sake of programs that
|
|
|
1278 support pre-19.12 XEmacs and pre-20 GNU Emacs by explicitly setting
|
|
|
1279 these variables to themselves.
|
|
|
1280
|
|
|
1281 ** The `concat' function no longer accepts integer arguments.
|
|
|
1282
|
|
|
1283 ** The new function `string' concatenates all its argument characters
|
|
|
1284 and returns the resulting string. This is consistent with other
|
|
|
1285 functions, like `list', `vector', etc.
|
|
|
1286
|
|
|
1287 ** The function `temp-directory' is now available to return the
|
|
|
1288 directory to store temporary files. On Unix this will be obtained
|
|
|
1289 from TMPDIR, defaulting to `/tmp'.
|
|
|
1290
|
|
|
1291 ** The function load-average now accepts an optional argument
|
|
|
1292 USE-FLOATS. If it is non-nil, the load average values are returned as
|
|
|
1293 floating point numbers, rather than as integers to be divided by 100.
|
|
|
1294
|
|
|
1295 ** The `make-event' function now supports the TYPE and PLIST
|
|
|
1296 arguments, which can be used to create various events from Lisp. See
|
|
|
1297 the documentation for details.
|
|
|
1298
|
|
|
1299 ** `function-interactive' is a new function that returns the
|
|
|
1300 interactive specification of a funcallable object.
|
|
|
1301
|
|
|
1302 ** The new `lmessage' function allows printing of a formatted message
|
|
|
1303 with a particular label.
|
|
|
1304
|
|
|
1305 (lmessage 'progress "Processing... %d" counter)
|
|
|
1306
|
|
|
1307 This function is more convenient than `display-message' because it
|
|
|
1308 automatically applies `format' to its arguments.
|
|
|
1309
|
|
|
1310 ** The new `lwarn' function, analogous to `lmessage', allows printing
|
|
|
1311 a formatted warning, with a non-default CLASS or LABEL.
|
|
|
1312
|
|
|
1313 ** The new function `split-path' can now be used to explode the
|
|
|
1314 components of a colon-separated search path into a list.
|
|
|
1315
|
|
|
1316 (split-path "foo:bar")
|
|
|
1317 => ("foo" "bar")
|
|
|
1318
|
|
|
1319 ** Specifiers and symbols whose value is a specifier are now allowed
|
|
|
1320 as modeline specifications.
|
|
|
1321
|
|
|
1322 ** defcustom now accepts the keyword `:version'. Use this to specify
|
|
|
1323 in which version of Emacs a certain variable's default value changed.
|
|
|
1324 For example,
|
|
|
1325
|
|
|
1326 (defcustom foo-max 34 "*Maximum number of foo's allowed."
|
|
|
1327 :type 'integer
|
|
|
1328 :group 'foo
|
|
|
1329 :version "21.0")
|
|
|
1330
|
|
|
1331 This information is used to control the customize-changed-options
|
|
|
1332 command.
|
|
|
1333
|
|
|
1334 ** The line number tracking in modeline is now efficient, even for
|
|
|
1335 very large buffers. This is achieved by caching the line numbers of
|
|
|
1336 recent buffer positions, and reusing them. This cache is used only in
|
|
|
1337 the buffers where `line-number-mode' is in effect.
|
|
|
1338
|
|
|
1339 ** When the new GNU Malloc aka Doug Lea Malloc is available, it will
|
|
|
1340 be used. This should result in better performance on Linux systems
|
|
|
1341 with libc6.
|
|
|
1342
|
|
|
1343 ** The code XEmacs uses to assemble its various paths into the
|
|
|
1344 directory hierarchy has been rewritten to support the package system.
|
|
|
1345 Look under "Startup Paths" in the Info documentation for more
|
|
|
1346 information.
|
|
|
1347
|
|
|
1348 *** site-lisp is no longer part of the load-path by default.
|
|
|
1349 Its use is deprecated, but you can specify --with-site-lisp=yes at the
|
|
|
1350 configure command line to get it back.
|
|
|
1351
|
|
|
1352 *** `Info-default-directory-list' is now obsolete. If you want to
|
|
|
1353 change the path which XEmacs uses to search for info files, set
|
|
|
1354 `Info-directory-list' instead.
|
|
464
|
1355
|
|
|
1356
|
|
|
1357 * For older news, see the file ONEWS.
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