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3 * Introduction
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6 This file presents some general information about XEmacs. It is
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7 primarily about the changes in recent XEmacs versions and its release
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8 history.
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10 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
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11 `C-c C-b' to move to previous equal level. `C-h m' will give more
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12 info about the Outline mode. Many commands are also available through
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13 the menubar.
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15 Users who would like to know which capabilities have been introduced
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16 in each release should look at the appropriate section of this file.
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17 Starting with version 20.0, XEmacs includes ChangeLogs, which can be
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18 consulted for a more detailed list of changes.
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20 Users interested in some of the details of how XEmacs differs from GNU
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21 Emacs should read the section "What's Different?" near the end of this
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22 file.
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24 N.B. The term "GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs Version
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25 19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do not
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26 say just "Emacs" as Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"] prefers, because
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27 it is clearly a more generic term.) The term "XEmacs" refers to
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28 this program or to its predecessors "Era" and "Lucid Emacs". The
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29 predecessor of all these program is called "Emacs 18". When no
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30 particular version is implied, "Emacs" will be used.
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33 * Changes in XEmacs 21.2
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39 now defaults to t. `delete-key-deletes-forward' takes effect only on
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40 the systems that offer both a backspace and a delete key. If set to
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41 nil, the key labeled "Delete" will always delete backward. If set to
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42 non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward, except on keyboards
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43 where a "Backspace" key is not provided (e.g. old DEC keyboards.)
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45 Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want
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46 to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the
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47 Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to
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48 Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard.
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51 off by setting `shifted-motion-keys-select-region' to nil.
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53 ** You can now set the variable `kill-whole-line' to `always', which
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54 makes `kill-line' (C-k) delete the entire line always, not just when
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55 the cursor is at the beginning of the line. This behavior, as well as
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56 the existing kill-whole-line behavior, now only take effect when
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57 kill-line is called interactively, although this is a departure from a
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58 previous behavior in the case of setting this variable kill-whole-line
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59 to t. It is almost certainly what has always been intended, and most
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60 likely the old way of doing things introduced bugs.
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62 The new function `historical-kill-line' ignores the `kill-whole-line'
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63 setting and always gives the historical behavior of only killing to
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64 the end of the line. This function is bound to Sh-C-k, so that the
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65 kill to end of line behavior is available, even when `kill-whole-line'
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66 has been customized.
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68 ** XEmacs menus now have accelerators by default. If a menu item does
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69 not have an accelerator specified, one is created dynamically, using
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74 Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by
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75 the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while
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76 searching). This mechanism has now been slightly improved for
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77 interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains
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78 uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive,
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79 `case-fold-search'.
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81 The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive
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82 searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search'
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83 etc. The incremental search facility has always behaved that way.
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86 it easier to anticipate where consecutive C-s or C-r will place the
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87 point. If you want to disable the feature, set
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88 `isearch-highlight-all-matches' to nil.
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90 ** You can now use the buffer tabs to switch between buffers. The
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91 tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in a
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92 location called "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can
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94 placing this in your .emacs:
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102 ** Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard by default under
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103 Windows. This was done by changing the default value of
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104 `interprogram-cut-function' and `interprogram-paste-function'. You
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105 can get the old behavior by setting these to nil, and there is an
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106 option on the options menu to do this.
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108 ** When you press RET at a minibuffer prompt that provides a default
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109 value, the value is stored in history instead of an empty line. Also,
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110 you can now edit the default value by pressing the down arrow,
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111 accessing the logical "future" value. Not all minibuffer prompts have
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115 order to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of
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116 lines. Two typical examples of the old behavior were
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117 `string-rectangle', which filled all lines up to the right side of the
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118 rectangle, and `clear-rectangle', which filled even empty lines up to
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119 the left side. All functions have been rewritten to avoid inserting
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120 unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to behave the
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121 old way.
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124 `pending-delete-mode': if this mode is active, then the string
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125 replaces the region rectangle. Otherwise, the command does not delete
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126 or overwrite any existing text. For those who want that feature but do
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127 not use pending-delete-mode, a new function, `replace-rectangle', is
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135 settings using a new menu entry. Comments for variables can also be
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136 assigned by calling `customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix
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140 ~/.xemacs/mule-packages/ and ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/. Previously,
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141 the early packages were located in ~/.xemacs/.
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143 ** You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs. An
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144 indirect buffer shares its text with another buffer ("base buffer"),
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145 but has its own major mode, local variables, extents, and narrowing.
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146 An indirect buffer has a name of its own, distinct from those of the
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147 base buffer and all other buffers. An indirect buffer cannot itself
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148 be visiting a file (though its base buffer can be). The base buffer
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149 cannot itself be indirect.
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150
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151 Use (make-indirect-buffer BASE-BUFFER NAME) to make an indirect buffer
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152 named NAME whose base is BASE-BUFFER. If BASE-BUFFER is itself an
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153 indirect buffer, its base buffer is used as the base for the new
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154 buffer.
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156 You can make an indirect buffer current, or switch to it in a window,
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157 just as you would a non-indirect buffer.
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159 The function `buffer-base-buffer' returns a buffer's base buffer or
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160 nil, if given an ordinary (non-indirect) buffer. The function
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161 `buffer-indirect-children' returns a list of the indirect children of
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162 a base buffer.
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163
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164 ** User names following the tilde character can now be completed at
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165 file name prompts; e.g. `C-x C-f ~hni<TAB>' will complete to
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166 `~hniksic/'. To make this operation faster, a cache of user names is
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167 maintained internally.
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169 The new primitives available for this purpose are functions named
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170 `user-name-completion' and `user-name-all-completions'.
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172 ** XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD).
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173 It will try NAS first, then ESD, then playing native sound directly.
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175 ** X-Face support is now available under MS-Windows.
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176 If an X-Face libary built under MS-Windows is available then XEmacs
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177 will use this at build time.
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178
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179 ** The font-menu is now available under MS-Windows.
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181 ** MS-Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
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183 Generally selection should now do what you would expect under
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184 MS-Windows: the middle mouse button will paste your current selection
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185 or the clipboard; conversions from different types of selection to the
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186 clipboard can be made; the kill-ring and friends will be updated as
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187 per X.
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194 XEmacs has always come with a little auxiliary program, movemail,
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195 which moves mail out of the system's spool area into user storage. To
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196 coordinate between XEmacs, the mail delivery agent, and other mail
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197 user agents, movemail needs to properly lock the spool file before
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198 moving it. Movemail now correctly respects the --mail-locking option
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199 to configure. Moreover, movemail's locking behavior can be specified
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200 at run-time, via a new command-line option -m to movemail, or through
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201 the environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD.
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203 When installing XEmacs, make sure you configure it according to your
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204 environment's mail spool locking conventions. When you're using a
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205 binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the
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206 EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable.
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210 If `~/.xemacs/init.el' exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `~/.emacs'
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211 as an init file. The file may be byte-compiled as
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212 `~/.xemacs/init.elc'.
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214 Future versions of XEmacs will stop supporting `~/.emacs' as an init
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215 file. XEmacs offers automatic migration upon startup.
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216
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217 ** Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
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219 Whereas customize settings were formerly stored in the regular init
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220 file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file
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221 `~/.xemacs/custom.el', completely under automatic control. This
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222 change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers
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223 automatic migration upon startup.
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224
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225 ** Init file may be called .emacs.el.
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227 For the time being, like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name
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228 the XEmacs init file `.emacs.el'. Formerly the name had to be
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229 `.emacs'. If you use the name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the
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230 file in the usual way.
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232 If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one
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233 that is used.
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236 These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally
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237 ~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs.
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239 Moreover, -user <user> (which used to only work in unpredictable ways)
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241 -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs. or -user-init-file
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242 ~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs, whichever init
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247 key under MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default
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248 is t. This is not to be confused with `menu-accelerator-enabled',
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249 which enables the use of Alt+<Letter> accelerators to invoke the
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250 menus.
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251
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253 By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the
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254 height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to
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260 do not like this behavior set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area'.
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261
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262 ** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
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263 It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface
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264 to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp.
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265 Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work,
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270 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
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275 out. This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each
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281 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator". The tags have the form
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282 "operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator.
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284 *** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and
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294 *** In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables. my and local
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299 *** .ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is
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308 Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
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309 initial work by Kyle Jones. Normally, XEmacs C sources link into an
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310 executable called `temacs', which loads the Lisp code and "unexecs"
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311 into a proper `xemacs' executable. The unexec() process is hard to
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312 implement correctly and makes XEmacs very hard to port to new
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315 A portable dumper is a different approach to dumping: instead of
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316 dumping full-fledged executable, it only dumps out the initialized
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317 data structures (both Lisp and C) into an external file. A normally
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318 running XEmacs only needs to mmap() that file and relocate a bit to
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319 get to the initialized data. In that scheme, there is no difference
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320 between `temacs' and `xemacs'.
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322 This is all very experimental, though. Configure with `--pdump' to
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327 *** Many basic lisp operations are now faster.
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328 This is especially the case when running a Mule-enabled XEmacs.
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329
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330 A general overhaul of the lisp engine should produce a speedup of 1.4
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331 in a Latin-1 XEmacs, and 2.1 in a Mule XEmacs. These numbers were
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332 obtained running `(byte-compile "simple.el")', which should be a
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333 pretty typical test of "pure" Lisp.
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335 *** Lisp hash tables have been re-implemented. The Common Lisp style
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336 hash table interface has been made standard, and moved from cl.el into
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337 fast C code (See the section on hash tables in the XEmacs Lisp
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338 Reference). A speedup factor of 3 can be expected with code that
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339 makes intensive use of hash tables.
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340
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341 *** The garbage collector has been tuned, leading to a speedup of
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342 1.16.
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343
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344 *** The family of functions that iterate over lists, like `memq', and
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345 `rassq', have been made a little faster (typically 1.3).
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346
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347 *** Lisp function calls are faster, by approximately a factor of two.
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348 However, defining inline functions (via defsubst) still makes sense
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349 for tight loops.
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350
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351 *** Finally, a few functions have had dramatic performance
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352 improvements. For example, `(last long-list)' is now 30 times faster.
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354 Of course, your mileage will vary.
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356 Many operations do not see any improvement. Surprisingly, running
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357 (font-lock-fontify-buffer) does not use the Lisp engine much at all.
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358 Speeding up your favorite slow operation is an excellent project to
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359 improve XEmacs. Don't forget to profile!
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363 The glyph system has been extended to allow the display of glyphs that
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364 are implemented as native window-system widgets. Thus you can embed
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365 buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
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366 buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
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368 All of this is still fairly experimental and there is no
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369 documentation. The current APIs might change in a future version of
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370 XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS-Windows. See the
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371 file glyphs-test.el in the XEmacs src distribution for examples of
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372 usage.
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374 The buffers-tab functionality and progress gauge have been implemented
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375 using this feature.
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377 ** `user-init-file' and `user-init-directory' are now absolute
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378 file/directory names. Previously, both variables used to be relative
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379 to (concat "~" init-file-user). This turned out to be too complicated
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380 for most packages (and some core Lisp files) to use correctly. Also,
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381 the `init-file-user' variable has been obsoleted in the process.
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382
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383 The user-visible options like `-u' have not changed their behavior.
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386 Although this is not yet very sophisticated, it is already responsible
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387 for several important bug fixes in XEmacs. To try it out, simply use
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388 the makefile target `make check' after building XEmacs.
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389
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390 ** Hash tables have been reimplemented.
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391 As was pointed out above, the standard interface to hash tables is now
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392 the Common Lisp interface, as described in Common Lisp, the Language
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393 (CLtL2, by Steele). The older interface (functions with names
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394 containing the phrase `hashtable') will continue to work, but the
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395 preferred interface now has names containing the phrase `hash-table'.
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396
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397 Here's the executive overview: create hash tables using
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398 make-hash-table, and use gethash, puthash, remhash, maphash and
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399 clrhash to manipulate entries in the hash table. See the (updated)
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400 Lisp Reference Manual for details.
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401
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402 ** Lisp code handles circular lists much more robustly.
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403 Many basic lisp functions used to loop forever when given a circular
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404 list, expecting you to C-g (quit) out of the loop. Now this is more
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405 likely to trigger a `circular-list' error. Printing a circular list
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406 now results in something like this:
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407
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408 (let ((x (cons 'foo 'foo)))
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409 (setcdr x x)
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410 x)
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411 => (foo ... <circular list>)
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412
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413 An extra bonus is that checking for circularities is not just
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414 friendlier, but actually faster than checking for C-g.
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415
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416 ** Functions for decoding base64 encoding are now available; see
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417 `base64-encode-region', `base64-encode-string', `base64-decode-region'
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418 and `base64-decode-string'.
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419
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421 `read-variable', `read-command', `read-function', `read-number',
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422 `read-shell-command', `read-from-minibuffer', and `completing-read'
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423 now take an additional argument which specifies the default value. If
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424 this argument is non-nil, it should be a string; that string is used
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425 in two ways:
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427 It is returned if the user enters empty input.
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428 It is available through the history command M-n.
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429
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430 ** LDAP changes.
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431
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432 *** The LDAP interface now consists of two layers, a low-level layer
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433 that closely matches the LDAP C API, and a more convenient
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434 higher-level set of functions.
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435
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436 *** The low-level functions that used to be named *-internal are now
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437 named more simply: `ldap-open', `ldap-close', `ldap-search-basic',
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438 `ldap-add', and `ldap-modify'. They should be used directly for very
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439 specific purposes (such as multiple operations on a connection) only.
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440
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441 *** The higher-level functions provide a more convenient way to access
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442 LDAP directories hiding the subtleties of handling the connection,
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443 translating arguments and ensuring compliance with LDAP
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444 internationalization rules and formats (currently partly implemented
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445 only.) This layer provides atomic operations for searches,
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446 modification, addition and deletion of multiple entries at once:
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447 `ldap-search-entries', `ldap-add-entries', `ldap-delete-entries', and
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448 `ldap-modify-entries'.
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449
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450 *** To maintain compatibility with previous code, the now obsolete
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451 function `ldap-search' is now merely a wrapper that calls either
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452 `ldap-search-basic' or `ldap-search-entries'. Please don't use the
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453 `ldap-search' function in your new programs -- a direct call to one of
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454 the two replacements is more efficient and unambiguous.
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455
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456 ** The arguments to `locate-file' are now more Lisp-like. As before,
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457 the usage is:
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458
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459 (locate-file FILENAME PATH-LIST &optional SUFFIXES MODE)
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460
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461 Except that SUFFIXES are now a list of strings instead of a single,
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462 colon-separated string. MODE is now a symbol or a list of symbols
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463 (symbols `exists', `executable', `writable', and `readable' are
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464 supported) instead of an integer code. See the documentation for
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465 details. Of course, the old form is still accepted for backward
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466 compatibility.
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467
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468 Several bugs in locate-file have been fixed, most notably its failure
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469 to call expand-file-name on elements of PATH-LIST. Because of that
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470 elements of load-path of the form "~/..." used to not work.
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471 locate-file is now guaranteed to expand files during its course of
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472 operation.
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473
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474 ** `translate-region' has been improved in several ways. Its TABLE
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475 argument used to be a 256-character string. In addition to this, it
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476 can now also be a vector or a char-table, which makes the function
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477 useful for Mule, which it wasn't. If TABLE a vector or a generic
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478 char-table, you can map characters to strings instead of to other
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479 characters. For instance:
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480
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481 (let ((table (make-char-table 'generic)))
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482 (put-char-table ?a "the letter a" table)
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483 (put-char-table ?b "" table)
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484 (put-char-table ?c ?\n table)
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485 (translate-region (point-min) (point-max) table))
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486
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487 ** The new form `ignore-file-errors', similar to `ignore-errors' may
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488 be used as a short-hand for condition-case when you wish to ignore
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489 file-related error. For example:
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490
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491 (ignore-file-errors (delete-file "foo"))
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492
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493 ** The first argument to `intern-soft' may now also be a symbol, like
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494 with `unintern'. If given a symbol, `intern-soft' will look for that
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495 exact symbol rather than for any string. This is useful when you want
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496 to check whether a specific symbol is interned in an obarray, e.g.:
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497
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498 (intern "foo")
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499 (intern-soft "foo")
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500 => foo
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501 (intern-soft (make-symbol "foo"))
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502 => nil
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503
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428
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504 ** The `keywordp' function now returns non-nil only on symbols
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505 interned in the global obarray. For example:
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506
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507 (keywordp (intern ":foo" [0]))
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508 => nil
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509 (keywordp (intern ":foo")) ; The same as (keywordp :foo)
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510 => t
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511
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442
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512 This behavior is compatible with other code which treats symbols
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428
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513 beginning with colon as keywords only if they are interned in the
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514 global obarray. `keywordp' used to wrongly return t in both cases
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515 above.
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516
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517 ** New variables `this-command-properties' and
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518 `last-command-properties' are now available for communication between
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519 consecutive commands. Commands should use these to communicate with
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520 the pre/post-command hooks, subsequent commands, wrapping commands,
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521 etc. in preference to looking at and/or setting `this-command'.
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522
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523 ** New functions `add-one-shot-hook' and `add-local-one-shot-hook' make
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524 it possible to add a "one-shot" hook, which is to say a hook that runs
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525 only once, and automatically removes itself after the first time it
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526 has run.
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527
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528 ** The descriptor that specifies the text of a menu item can now be an
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529 evaluated expression. This makes this descriptor parallel with
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530 others, which can also be expressions.
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531
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532
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533 * Changes in XEmacs 21.0
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534 ========================
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535
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536 ** XEmacs has been unbundled into constituent installable packages.
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537 See the Info documentation under "Packages" for more information.
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538 See the file `etc/PACKAGES' in the distribution for a partial list of
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539 packages available at the time of the 21.0 release.
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540
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541 ** XEmacs is now supported under Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
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542 NT operating systems. For starters, look at the XEmacs on Windows FAQ
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543 at <URL:http://jagor.srce.hr/~hniksic/xemacs-on-windows-faq.txt>. To
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544 discuss Windows-specific issues, subscribe to the mailing list at
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545 <xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org>.
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546
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547 ** XEmacs will now use `XEmacs' as its application class if it finds
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548 any `XEmacs' resources in the resource database. Otherwise, it will
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549 continue to use the `Emacs' class.
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550
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551 ** The options menu has been ported to Custom.
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552 This means that each entry in the options menu acts as if you had customized
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553 the corresponding variable by hand. ### WARNING: there is currently no
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554 upgrading function to help you port your old options settings to the new
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555 format. Consequently, if you want to modify the options for XEmacs 21, you
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556 will have to set them all again through the menu, and remove the code loading
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557 .xemacs-options from your .emacs.
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558
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559 ** When the Zmacs region is active, `M-x query-replace' and the other
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560 replace commands now operate on the region contents only.
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561
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562 ** XEmacs now is able to choose X visuals and use private colormaps.
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563 The '-visual <visualStr>' command line option or the '.EmacsVisual'
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564 Xresource controls which visual XEmacs will use, and
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565 '-privateColormap' or '.privateColormap' will force XEmacs to create a
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566 private colormap for use. The syntax for the visual string is
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567 "<visual><bitdepth>" where <visual> is one of 'StaticColor',
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568 'TrueColor', 'GrayScale', 'PseudoColor' or 'DirectColor' and
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569 <bitdepth> is the appropriate number of bits per pixel. If an invalid
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570 or non-supported combination is entered, XEmacs attempts to find a happy
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571 medium. The X creation mechanism will then determine if it needs to
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572 create a colormap for use, or the presence of the private flags will
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573 force it to create it.
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574
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575 ** The `imenu' package has been ported to XEmacs and is available as a
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576 package.
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577
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578 ** `echo-keystrokes' can now be a floating-point number, so that you
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579 can set it to intervals shorter than one second.
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580
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|
|
581 (setq echo-keystrokes 0.1)
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582
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|
|
583 ** The new command `center-to-window-line' works like `recenter'
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|
584 (bound to `C-l'), only it does not redisplay the whole display area.
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585
|
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586 ** The M-. command will now first search through exact tags matches,
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587 and then through inexact matches, as one would expect.
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588
|
|
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589 ** The new variable `user-full-name' can be used to customize one's
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590 name when using the Emacs mail and news reading facilities.
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591
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592 Normally, `user-full-name' is a function that returns the full name of
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593 a user or UID, as specified by the system -- for instance,
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594 (user-full-name "root") returns something like "Super-User". However,
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595 when the function is called without arguments, it will return the
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596 value of the `user-full-name' variable. The `user-full-name' variable
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597 is initialized using the environment variable NAME and (failing that)
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598 the user's system name.
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599
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600 The behavior of the `user-full-name' function with an argument
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601 specified is unchanged.
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602
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|
603 ** The new command `M-x customize-changed-options' lets you customize
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604 all the options whose default values have changed in recent Emacs
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605 versions. You specify a previous Emacs version number as argument,
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606 and the command creates a customization buffer showing all the
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607 customizable options whose default values were changed since that
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608 version.
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609
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|
610 If you don't specify a particular version number argument, then the
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|
611 customization buffer shows all the customizable options for which
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|
612 Emacs versions of changes are recorded.
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|
613
|
|
|
614 ** The new command `add-log-convert' can be used to convert the
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615 old-style (pre-20.3) ChangeLog buffers to new style, for
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616 consistency. A reminder: if you wish to revert to old-style
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617 ChangeLogs instead, customize the value of `add-log-time-format'
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618 variable.
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619
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620 ** The new command `zap-up-to-char' is now available. It is similar
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621 to `zap-to-char', except that it does not delete the searched-for
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622 character. It is not bound to a key by default.
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623
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624 ** You can now store a number into a register with `C-u NUMBER C-x r n'
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625 REG, increment it by INC with `C-u INC C-x r + REG' (to increment by
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626 one, omit C-u INC), and insert it in the buffer with `C-x r g REG'.
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627 This is useful for writing keyboard macros.
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628
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629 ** The M-: command, when given a prefix argument, will now insert its
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630 result to the current buffer.
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631
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632 ** The `C-h c' command, when given a prefix argument, will now insert
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633 the message into the current buffer.
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634
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635 ** Horizontally split windows may now be dragged using the mouse.
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636 Because of this, the dividers between vertical windows are always
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637 visible. To turn it off, set `vertical-divider-always-visible-p' to
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638 nil.
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639
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|
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640 ** XEmacs/Mule (internationalization) changes.
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641
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|
|
642 *** Mule support now works on TTY's. Use `set-terminal-coding-system'
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|
643 and `set-keyboard-coding-system' to specify the coding system of your
|
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644 display and keyboard.
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645
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|
646 *** Egg/SJ3 input method is now officially supported. Quail and
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647 Egg/Skk have been available through the generalized Leim since 20.3.
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648
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649 *** Localized Japanese menubars are available if XEmacs is built with
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650 XFONTSET and either the X11 libraries are built with X_LOCALE defined
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|
651 or the native C libraries support Japanese localization. This has
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652 been available since 20.3, only it hasn't been announced before.
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653
|
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654 ** Jamie Zawinski's `gdb-highlight' extension is now distributed with
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655 the `debug' package. gdb-highlight makes most objects printed in a
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656 gdb buffer be mouse-sensitive: as text shows up in the buffer, it is
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657 parsed, and objects which are recognized have context-sensitive
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658 commands attached to them. To use it, add the following to `.emacs':
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659
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660 (add-hook 'gdb-mode-hook (lambda () (require 'gdb-highlight)))
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661
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662 ** The package popper.el is now included in the edit-utils package.
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663 It has been greatly enhanced with respect to the one once included
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664 with the ilisp package and should work well under XEmacs 21.0.
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665
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666 ** Gnuserv changes
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667
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668 *** Like the old 'gnudoit' program. Gnuclient -batch now can read from stdin.
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669
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670 *** Gnuclient -batch no longer breaks off the output at the first LF.
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671
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672 ** C mode changes
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673
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674 *** Multiline macros are now handled, both as they affect indentation,
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675 and as recognized syntax. New syntactic symbol cpp-macro-cont is
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676 assigned to second and subsequent lines of a multiline macro
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677 definition.
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678
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679 *** A new style "user" which captures all non-hook-ified
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680 (i.e. top-level) .emacs file variable setings and customizations.
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681 Style "cc-mode" is an alias for "user" and is deprecated. "gnu" style
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682 is still the default however.
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683
|
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684 *** "java" style now conforms to Sun's JDK coding style.
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685
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686 *** There are new commands c-beginning-of-defun, c-end-of-defun which
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687 are alternatives which you could bind to C-M-a and C-M-e if you prefer
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688 them. They do not have key bindings by default.
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689
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690 *** New and improved implementations of M-a (c-beginning-of-statement)
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691 and M-e (c-end-of-statement).
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692
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693 *** C++ namespace blocks are supported, with new syntactic symbols
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694 namespace-open, namespace-close, and innamespace.
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695
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696 *** File local variable settings of c-file-style and c-file-offsets
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697 makes the style variables local to that buffer only.
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698
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699 *** New indentation functions c-lineup-close-paren,
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700 c-indent-one-line-block, c-lineup-dont-change.
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701
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702 *** Improvements (hopefully!) to the way CC Mode is loaded. You
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703 should now be able to do a (require 'cc-mode) to get the entire
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704 package loaded properly for customization in your .emacs file. A new
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705 variable c-initialize-on-load controls this and is t by default.
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706
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707 ** In Text mode, now only blank lines separate paragraphs.
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708 This makes it possible to get the full benefit of Adaptive Fill mode
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709 in Text mode, and other modes derived from it (such as Mail mode).
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710 TAB in Text mode now runs the command indent-relative; this makes a
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711 practical difference only when you use indented paragraphs.
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712
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713 As a result, the old Indented Text mode is now identical to Text mode,
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714 and is an alias for it.
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715
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716 If you want spaces at the beginning of a line to start a paragraph,
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717 use the new mode, Paragraph Indent Text mode.
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718
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719 ** Changes to Gnus, the XEmacs newsreader.
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720
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721 *** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
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722 added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
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723 Gnus manual for the full story.
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724
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725 *** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
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726 before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
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727 group, which is created automatically.
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728
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729 *** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
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730 values.
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731
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732 *** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
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733
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734 *** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
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735 outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
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736
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737 *** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
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738 `C-u C-c C-c'.
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739
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740 *** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
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741
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742 *** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
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743 re-highlighting of the article buffer.
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744
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745 *** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
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746
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747 *** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
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748 Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
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749
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750 *** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
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751 `a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
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752
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753 *** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
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754 control over simplification.
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755
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756 *** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
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757
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758 *** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
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759 limit.
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760
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761 *** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
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762
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763 *** \\1-expressions are now valid in `nnmail-split-methods'.
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764
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765 *** The `custom-face-lookup' function has been removed.
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766 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
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767 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
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768
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769 *** Cancelling now uses the current select method. Symbolic prefix
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770 `a' forces normal posting method.
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771
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772 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
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773 -- `W d'.
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774
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775 *** For easier debugging of nntp, you can set `nntp-record-commands'
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776 to a non-nil value.
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777
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778 *** nntp now uses ~/.authinfo, a .netrc-like file, for controlling
|
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779 where and how to send AUTHINFO to NNTP servers.
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780
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781 *** A command for editing group parameters from the summary buffer
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782 has been added.
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783
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784 *** A history of where mails have been split is available.
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785
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786 *** A new article date command has been added -- `article-date-iso8601'.
|
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787
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788 *** Subjects can be simplified when threading by setting
|
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789 `gnus-score-thread-simplify'.
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790
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791 *** A new function for citing in Message has been added --
|
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|
792 `message-cite-original-without-signature'.
|
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793
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|
|
794 *** `article-strip-all-blank-lines' -- new article command.
|
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795
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|
796 *** A new Message command to kill to the end of the article has
|
|
|
797 been added.
|
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798
|
|
|
799 *** A minimum adaptive score can be specified by using the
|
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800 `gnus-adaptive-word-minimum' variable.
|
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801
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|
802 *** The "lapsed date" article header can be kept continually
|
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|
803 updated by the `gnus-start-date-timer' command.
|
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804
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|
805 *** Web listserv archives can be read with the nnlistserv backend.
|
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|
806
|
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|
807 *** Old dejanews archives can now be read by nnweb.
|
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808
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|
809 *** Byte-compilation of user-specs now works under XEmacs.
|
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810
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|
811 ** The `dir' files are no longer essential for functioning of the Info
|
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|
812 subsystem. If the `dir' file does not exist in an Info directory, the
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|
813 relevant information will be generated on-the-fly.
|
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814
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|
815 This behavior can be customized, look for `Info-auto-generate-directory'
|
|
|
816 and `Info-save-auto-generated-dir' in the `info' customization group.
|
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817
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818
|
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|
819 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.0
|
|
|
820 ==========================================
|
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821
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|
|
822 ** It is now possible to build XEmacs with support for 31-bit Lisp
|
|
|
823 integers (normally, Lisp integers are only 28 bits wide on 32-bit
|
|
|
824 machines.) Configure with --use-minimal-tagbits to test. With this
|
|
|
825 change, the maximum buffer size on 32-bit machines is increased from
|
|
|
826 128M to 1G. This setting will be made default in a future XEmacs
|
|
|
827 version.
|
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|
828
|
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|
829 ** Specifier changes.
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830
|
|
|
831 *** When instantiating a specifier, the window locale now has a higher
|
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|
832 precedence than the buffer locale. This is because the window locale
|
|
|
833 is more specific than the buffer locale.
|
|
|
834
|
|
|
835 *** The new macro `let-specifier' can be used to temporarily add
|
|
|
836 specifications to specifiers. See the documentation for details.
|
|
|
837
|
|
|
838 *** The new specifiers `vertical-scrollbar-visible-p' and
|
|
|
839 `horizontal-scrollbar-visible-p' may be used to control scrollbar
|
|
|
840 visibility. Previously, the only way to remove a scrollbar was to set
|
|
|
841 its size to 0. This method is still supported for backward
|
|
|
842 compatibility.
|
|
|
843
|
|
|
844 *** The new specifiers `scrollbar-on-left-p' and `scrollbar-on-top-p'
|
|
|
845 may be used to control the position of the vertical and horizontal
|
|
|
846 toolbar. Previously, their position could be changed only through the
|
|
|
847 use of X resources.
|
|
|
848
|
|
|
849 *** The new draggable vertical dividers between windows may be turned
|
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|
850 off using the `vertical-divider-always-visible-p' specifier. When
|
|
|
851 this is set to nil, the vertical dividers between windows are shown
|
|
|
852 only when needed, and they are not draggable.
|
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|
853
|
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|
854 Other properties of the vertical dividers may be controlled using
|
|
|
855 `vertical-divider-shadow-thickness', `vertical-divider-line-width' and
|
|
|
856 `vertical-divider-spacing' specifiers, which see.
|
|
|
857
|
|
|
858 ** Frame focus management changes.
|
|
|
859
|
|
|
860 *** When the variable focus-follows-mouse is non-nil, `select-frame'
|
|
|
861 no longer permanently selects a different frame. The frame selection
|
|
|
862 is temporary and is reverted when the current command terminates, much
|
|
|
863 like the buffer selected by `set-buffer'. This is the same as in FSF
|
|
|
864 Emacs.
|
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|
865
|
|
|
866 *** The new function `focus-frame' sets the window system focus to
|
|
|
867 FRAME (and selects it), regardless of the value of
|
|
|
868 `focus-follows-mouse'. Doing this is not well behaved, so be
|
|
|
869 absolutely sure that you want this.
|
|
|
870
|
|
|
871 The code that uses `select-frame' only to get the window manager focus
|
|
|
872 should be changed to use `set-frame-focus' instead, so that they keep
|
|
|
873 working when `focus-follows-mouse' is non-nil.
|
|
|
874
|
|
|
875 *** The special forms `save-selected-frame' and `with-selected-frame'
|
|
|
876 can now be used to temporarily change selected frame.
|
|
|
877
|
|
|
878 *** The behavior of `other-frame' command (`C-x 5 o') is unaffected by
|
|
|
879 these changes.
|
|
|
880
|
|
|
881 ** The function `select-window' now has an optional second argument
|
|
|
882 NORECORD which if non-nil inhibits the recording of a buffer change.
|
|
|
883
|
|
|
884 ** The function `vertical-motion' now correctly handles the second,
|
|
|
885 optional WINDOW argument. A new third argument PIXELS, if non-nil,
|
|
|
886 indicates that the returned motion should be in pixels.
|
|
|
887
|
|
|
888 ** The new function `vertical-motion-pixels' is similar to
|
|
|
889 vertical-motion but takes as input a vertical motion in pixels.
|
|
|
890
|
|
|
891 ** The new functions window-text-area-pixel-{width,height,edges} can
|
|
|
892 be used to obtain information about the text-displaying area of a
|
|
|
893 window.
|
|
|
894
|
|
|
895 ** The new functions `shrink-window-pixels' and `enlarge-window-pixels'
|
|
|
896 can be used to adjust the size of a window by a pixel amount.
|
|
|
897
|
|
|
898 ** The new function `window-displayed-text-pixel-height' can be used
|
|
|
899 to determine the height of the text actually displayed in a window.
|
|
|
900
|
|
|
901 ** The arithmetic comparison functions <, >, =, /= now accept a
|
|
|
902 variable number of arguments.
|
|
|
903
|
|
|
904 This means that if you want to test whether A < B < C, you can write
|
|
|
905 it as (< A B C) instead of (and (< A B) (< B C)). Likewise,
|
|
|
906 (apply #'> LIST) now tests if LIST is monotonously increasing -- and
|
|
|
907 so on.
|
|
|
908
|
|
|
909 ** The XEmacs hashtables now have a consistent read/print syntax.
|
|
|
910 This means that a hashtable will be readably printed in a
|
|
|
911 structure-like form:
|
|
|
912
|
|
|
913 #s(hashtable size 2 data (key1 value1 key2 value2))
|
|
|
914
|
|
|
915 When XEmacs reads this form, it will create a new hashtable according
|
|
|
916 to description. This allows you to easily dump hashtables to files
|
|
|
917 using `prin1', and read them back in using `read'.
|
|
|
918
|
|
|
919 If `print-readably' is non-nil, a more relaxed syntax is used; for
|
|
|
920 instance:
|
|
|
921
|
|
|
922 #<hashtable size 2/13 data (key1 value1 key2 value2) 0x874d>
|
|
|
923
|
|
|
924 ** It is now possible to build XEmacs with LDAP support.
|
|
|
925 You will need to install a LDAP library first. The following have
|
|
|
926 been tested:
|
|
|
927 - LDAP 3.3 from the University of Michigan
|
|
|
928 (get it from <URL:http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/>)
|
|
|
929 - OpenLDAP 1.0.3 from the OpenLDAP Foundation
|
|
|
930 (get it from <URL:http://www.openldap.org/>)
|
|
|
931 - LDAP SDK 1.0 from Netscape Corp.
|
|
|
932 (get it from <URL:http://developer.netscape.com/>)
|
|
|
933
|
|
|
934 ** When profiling is in effect, a call-count of all recorded functions
|
|
|
935 is now calculated. This information is stored in
|
|
|
936 `call-count-profile-table', and is utilized by `profile-results' as
|
|
|
937 well as the new command `profile-call-count-results'.
|
|
|
938
|
|
|
939 ** It is now an error to change the value of a symbol whose name
|
|
|
940 starts with a colon, if it is interned in the standard obarray.
|
|
|
941
|
|
|
942 However, setting such a symbol to its proper value, which is that
|
|
|
943 symbol itself, is not an error. This is for the sake of programs that
|
|
|
944 support pre-19.12 XEmacs and pre-20 GNU Emacs by explicitly setting
|
|
|
945 these variables to themselves.
|
|
|
946
|
|
|
947 ** The `concat' function no longer accepts integer arguments.
|
|
|
948
|
|
|
949 ** The new function `string' concatenates all its argument characters
|
|
|
950 and returns the resulting string. This is consistent with other
|
|
|
951 functions, like `list', `vector', etc.
|
|
|
952
|
|
|
953 ** The function `temp-directory' is now available to return the
|
|
|
954 directory to store temporary files. On Unix this will be obtained
|
|
|
955 from TMPDIR, defaulting to `/tmp'.
|
|
|
956
|
|
|
957 ** The function load-average now accepts an optional argument
|
|
|
958 USE-FLOATS. If it is non-nil, the load average values are returned as
|
|
|
959 floating point numbers, rather than as integers to be divided by 100.
|
|
|
960
|
|
|
961 ** The `make-event' function now supports the TYPE and PLIST
|
|
|
962 arguments, which can be used to create various events from Lisp. See
|
|
|
963 the documentation for details.
|
|
|
964
|
|
|
965 ** `function-interactive' is a new function that returns the
|
|
|
966 interactive specification of a funcallable object.
|
|
|
967
|
|
|
968 ** The new `lmessage' function allows printing of a formatted message
|
|
|
969 with a particular label.
|
|
|
970
|
|
|
971 (lmessage 'progress "Processing... %d" counter)
|
|
|
972
|
|
|
973 This function is more convenient than `display-message' because it
|
|
|
974 automatically applies `format' to its arguments.
|
|
|
975
|
|
|
976 ** The new `lwarn' function, analogous to `lmessage', allows printing
|
|
|
977 a formatted warning, with a non-default CLASS or LABEL.
|
|
|
978
|
|
|
979 ** The new function `split-path' can now be used to explode the
|
|
|
980 components of a colon-separated search path into a list.
|
|
|
981
|
|
|
982 (split-path "foo:bar")
|
|
|
983 => ("foo" "bar")
|
|
|
984
|
|
|
985 ** Specifiers and symbols whose value is a specifier are now allowed
|
|
|
986 as modeline specifications.
|
|
|
987
|
|
|
988 ** defcustom now accepts the keyword `:version'. Use this to specify
|
|
|
989 in which version of Emacs a certain variable's default value changed.
|
|
|
990 For example,
|
|
|
991
|
|
|
992 (defcustom foo-max 34 "*Maximum number of foo's allowed."
|
|
|
993 :type 'integer
|
|
|
994 :group 'foo
|
|
|
995 :version "21.0")
|
|
|
996
|
|
|
997 This information is used to control the customize-changed-options
|
|
|
998 command.
|
|
|
999
|
|
|
1000 ** The line number tracking in modeline is now efficient, even for
|
|
|
1001 very large buffers. This is achieved by caching the line numbers of
|
|
|
1002 recent buffer positions, and reusing them. This cache is used only in
|
|
|
1003 the buffers where `line-number-mode' is in effect.
|
|
|
1004
|
|
|
1005 ** When the new GNU Malloc aka Doug Lea Malloc is available, it will
|
|
|
1006 be used. This should result in better performance on Linux systems
|
|
|
1007 with libc6.
|
|
|
1008
|
|
|
1009 ** The code XEmacs uses to assemble its various paths into the
|
|
|
1010 directory hierarchy has been rewritten to support the package system.
|
|
|
1011 Look under "Startup Paths" in the Info documentation for more
|
|
|
1012 information.
|
|
|
1013
|
|
|
1014 *** site-lisp is no longer part of the load-path by default.
|
|
|
1015 Its use is deprecated, but you can specify --with-site-lisp=yes at the
|
|
|
1016 configure command line to get it back.
|
|
|
1017
|
|
|
1018 *** `Info-default-directory-list' is now obsolete. If you want to
|
|
|
1019 change the path which XEmacs uses to search for info files, set
|
|
|
1020 `Info-directory-list' instead.
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