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6 This file presents some general information about XEmacs. It is primarily
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7 about the evolution of XEmacs and its release history.
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17 New users should look at the next section on "Using Outline Mode". You will
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18 be more efficient when you can navigate quickly through this file. Users
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22 Users who would like to know which capabilities have been introduced
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23 in each release should look at the appropriate subsection of the
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24 "XEmacs Release Notes." Starting with version 20.0, XEmacs includes
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25 ChangeLogs, which can be consulted for a more detailed list of
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28 N.B. The term "FSF GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs Version 19
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29 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do not say just
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30 "GNU Emacs" because Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"] thinks that this term
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31 is too generic; although we sometimes say e.g. "GNU Emacs 19.30" to refer
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32 to a specific version of FSF GNU Emacs. We do not say merely "Emacs", as
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33 RMS prefers, because that is clearly an even more generic term.) The term
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34 "XEmacs" refers to this program or to its predecessors "Era" and
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35 "Lucid Emacs". The predecessor of all these program is called "Emacs 18".
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42 This file is in outline mode, a major mode for viewing (or editing)
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43 outlines. It allows you to make parts of the text temporarily invisible so
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44 that you can see just the overall structure of the outline.
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46 There are two ways of using outline mode: with keys or with menus. Using
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47 outline mode with menus is the simplest and is just as effective as using
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48 keystrokes. There are menus for outline mode on the menubar as well as in
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49 popup menus activated by pressing mouse button 3.
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52 you to navigate from heading to heading. Menu items under "Show" make
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53 visible portions of the outline while menu items under "Hide" do the
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56 A special minor mode called "outl-mouse" has been automatically enabled. In
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57 this minor mode, glyphs appear which, when clicked on, will alternately hide
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64 C-c C-n outline-next-visible-heading move by visible headings
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65 C-c C-p outline-previous-visible-heading
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66 C-c C-f outline-forward-same-level similar but skip subheadings
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68 C-c C-u outline-up-heading move from subheading to heading
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70 C-c C-t make all text invisible (not headings).
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71 M-x show-all make everything in buffer visible.
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73 The remaining commands are used when point is on a heading line.
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74 They apply to some of the body or subheadings of that heading.
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75 C-c C-d hide-subtree make body and subheadings invisible.
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76 C-c C-s show-subtree make body and subheadings visible.
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78 No effect on body, or subheadings 2 or more levels down.
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79 With arg N, affects subheadings N levels down.
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80 C-c C-c make immediately following body invisible.
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87 XEmacs Release Notes
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90 * Future Plans for XEmacs
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93 ** XEmacs will be unbundled into constituent installable packages.
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95 The XEmacs distribution has grown very large. We plan the future
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96 distribution to contain a much smaller amount of code for basic
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97 functionality, with all the popular Lisp packages being available in
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98 the form of easy-to-install add-ons.
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100 ** Autoconf 2 will be supported, to make XEmacs a more behaved
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101 denizen of the free software community.
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103 ** We are working on improving the Mule support in future releases:
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105 *** Other input methods, such as skk, will be supported.
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109 *** More user-level documentation on using Mule.
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116 very final moment. Instead of confusing the version numbers further,
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117 the `20.1' designation was abandoned, and the release was renamed to
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118 `20.2'.
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119
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120 ** The `C-z' key now iconifies only the current X frame. You can use
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121 `C-x C-z' to get the old behavior.
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123 On the tty frames `C-z' behaves as before.
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125 ** Several Egg/Wnn-related crashes were fixed.
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127 ** lib-complete.el was MULE-ized.
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129 The commands `find-library', `find-library-other-window' and
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130 `find-library-other-frame' now take an optional coding system
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131 argument.
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133 ** XEmacs 20.0 MULE API supported for backwards compatibilty
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135 XEmacs 20.2 primarily supports the MULE 3 API. It now also supports
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136 the XEmacs 20.0 MULE API.
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138 ** `values' now has a setf method
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140 ** W3-3.0.85 Courtesy of William Perry
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142 Bug fixes. See the 20.1 notes for further details.
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146 Bug fixes. See the 20.1 notes for further details.
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150 Interface changes to maintain Emacs compatibility.
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154 Bug fixes.
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158 Restoration of proper behavior with respect to the zmacs region.
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170 ** Further support of Custom package by Hrvoje Niksic
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178 The sample .Xdefaults and .emacs files contain examples of how to
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179 revert to the old background color.
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181 ** Default modeline colors are now less of a color-salad.
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183 ** The command `display-time' now draws a pretty image in the modeline
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184 when new mail arrives. It also supports balloon-help messages.
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186 ** Various commands that were previously disabled are now enabled, like
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187 eval-expression (`M-:') and upcase-region (`C-x C-u')/downcase-region
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188 (`C-x C-l').
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190 ** Numerous causes of crashes have been fixed. XEmacs should now be
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191 even more stable than before.
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193 ** The XEmacs build process has been changed to make site
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194 administration easier. See lisp/site-load.el for details.
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196 ** It is now possible to customize the functions called by XEmacs toolbar.
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198 Type `M-x customize RET toolbar RET' to customize it. Customizations
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199 include the choice of functions for the buttons to invoke, as well as
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200 a wide choice of mailers and newsreaders to invoked by the respective
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201 functions.
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202
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203 ** `temp-buffer-shrink-to-fit' now defaults to nil.
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205 There are unresolved issues regarding this feature, which is why the
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206 XEmacs developers decided to disable it by default.
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208 ** `ps-print-color-p' now defaults to nil.
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210 This is because the new default background color is non-white. The
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211 `Printing Options' in the `Options' menu now include an item that
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212 enables color printing, and sets the white background.
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214 ** `line-number-mode' should be used to get line numbers in the
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215 modeline, and `column-number-mode' to get column numbers. Line
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216 numbers now number from 1 by default.
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218 ** font-lock-mode will now correctly fontify `int a, b, c;'
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219 expressions in C mode.
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220
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221 ** The blinking cursor is always "on" during movement.
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223 ** A number of new packages are added, and many packages were
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224 updated.
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228 *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
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247 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
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250
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253 *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
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258 used to pick articles.
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263 `M-x gnus-change-server'
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287 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
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290 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
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293
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294 *** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
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298 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
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300 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
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301 a group.
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306 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
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310 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
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314 Use the `Y c' command.
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315
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317
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318 *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
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320 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
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321
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323 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
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324
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325 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
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326
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331 The Customize library enables Emacs Lisp programmers to specify types
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332 of their variables, so that the users can customize them.
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333
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334 Invoke the customizations buffer using the menus (Customize is at the
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335 top of the Options menu), or using commands `M-x customize',
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336 `M-x customize-variable' and `M-x customize-face'. Customize can save
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337 the changed settings to your `.emacs' file.
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338
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339 Customize is now the preferred way to change XEmacs settings. Tens of
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340 packages have been converted to take advantage of the Customize
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341 features, including Gnus, Message, Supercite, Psgml, Comint, W3,
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342 cc-mode (and many other programming language modes), ispell.el,
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343 ps-print.el, id-select.el, most of the programming language modes, and
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344 many many more.
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345
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346 See the "Lisp Changes" section later for a short description of why
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347 and how to add custom support to your Lisp packages. Custom is also
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348 documented in the XEmacs info manuals.
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349
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350 ** W3-3.0.80, courtesy of William Perry
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351
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352 Version 3 of Emacs/W3, the Emacs World Wide Web browser, has been
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353 included. It is significantly faster than any of the previous
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354 versions, and contains numerous new features.
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355
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356 ** AUCTeX-9.7k, courtesy of Per Abrahamsen
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357
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358 AUC TeX is a comprehensive customizable integrated environment for
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359 writing input files for LaTeX using GNU Emacs.
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360
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361 AUC TeX lets you run TeX/LaTeX and other LaTeX-related tools, such as
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362 a output filters or post processor from inside Emacs. Especially
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363 `running LaTeX' is interesting, as AUC TeX lets you browse through the
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364 errors TeX reported, while it moves the cursor directly to the
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365 reported error, and displays some documentation for that particular
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366 error. This will even work when the document is spread over several
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367 files.
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368
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369 AUC TeX automatically indents your `LaTeX-source', not only as you
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370 write it -- you can also let it indent and format an entire document.
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371 It has a special outline feature, which can greatly help you `getting
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372 an overview' of a document.
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373
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374 Apart from these special features, AUC TeX provides an large range of
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375 handy Emacs macros, which in several different ways can help you write
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376 your LaTeX documents fast and painless.
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377
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378 ** redo.el-1.01, courtesy of Kyle Jones
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379
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380 redo.el is a package that implements true redo mechanism in XEmacs
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381 buffers. Once you load it from your `.emacs', you can bind the `redo'
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382 command to a convenient key to use it.
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383
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384 Emacs' normal undo system allows you to undo an arbitrary number of
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385 buffer changes. These undos are recorded as ordinary buffer changes
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386 themselves. So when you break the chain of undos by issuing some
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387 other command, you can then undo all the undos. The chain of recorded
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388 buffer modifications therefore grows without bound, truncated only at
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389 garbage collection time.
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390
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391 The redo/undo system is different in two ways:
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392
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393 *** The undo/redo command chain is only broken by a buffer modification.
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395 You can move around the buffer or switch buffers and still come back
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396 and do more undos or redos.
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397
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398 *** The `redo' command rescinds the most recent undo without
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399 recording the change as a _new_ buffer change.
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400
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401 It completely reverses the effect of the undo, which includes making
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402 the chain of buffer modification records shorter by one, to counteract
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403 the effect of the undo command making the record list longer by one.
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407
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408 Edmacro is a utility that provides easy editing of keyboard macros.
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409 Originally written by Dave Gillespie, it has been mostly rewritten by
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410 Hrvoje Niksic, in order to make it distinguish characters and integer,
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411 as well as to adapt it to XEmacs keysyms.
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412
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413 Press `C-x C-k' to invoke the `edit-kbd-macro' command that lets you
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414 edit old as well as define new keyboard macros. You can also edit the
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415 last 100 keystrokes and insert them into a macro to be bound to a key
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416 or named as a command. The recorded/edited macros can be dumped to
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417 `.emacs' file.
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418
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419 ** xmine.el-1.7, courtesy of Jens Lautenbacher
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420
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421 XEmacs now includes a minesweeper game with a full-featured graphics
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422 and mouse interface. Invoke with `M-x xmine'.
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423
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424 ** efs-1.15 courtesy of Andy Norman and Michael Sperber
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425
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426 EFS is now integrated with XEmacs, and replaces the old ange-ftp. It
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427 has many more features, including info documentation, support for many
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428 different FTP servers, and integration with dired.
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429
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430 ** mic-paren.el-1.3.1, courtesy of Mikael Sjödin
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431 ** hyperbole-4.022, courtesy of Bob Weiner
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432 ** hm--html-menus-5.3, courtesy of Heiko Muenkel
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433 ** python-mode.el-2.90, courtesy of Barry Warsaw
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434 ** balloon-help-1.05, courtesy of Kyle Jones
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435 ** xrdb-mode.el-1.21, courtesy of Barry Warsaw
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436 ** igrep.el-2.56, courtesy of Kevin Rodgers
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437 ** frame-icon.el, courtesy of Michael Lamoureux and Bob Weiner
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438 ** itimer.el-1.05, courtesy of Kyle Jones
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439 ** VM-6.26, courtesy of Kyle Jones
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440 ** OO-Browser-2.10, courtesy of Bob Weiner
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441 ** viper-2.93, courtesy of Michael Kifer
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442 ** ediff-2.64, courtesy of Michael Kifer
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443 ** detached-minibuf-1.1, courtesy of Alvin Shelton
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444 ** whitespace-mode.el, courtesy of Heiko Muenkel
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445 ** winmgr-mode.el, courtesy of David Konerding, Stefan Strobel & Barry Warsaw
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446 ** fast-lock.el-3.11.01, courtesy of Simon Marshall
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447 ** lazy-lock.el-1.16, courtesy of Simon Marshall
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448 ** browse-cltl2.el-1.1, courtesy of Holger Schauer
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449 ** eldoc.el-1.10, courtesy of Noah Friedman
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450 ** tm-7.105, courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko
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451 ** verilog-mode.el, courtesy of Michael McNamara & Adrian Aichner
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452 ** overlay.el, courtesy of Joseph Nuspl
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453
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454
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457
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458 ** `defcustom' and `defgroup' can now be used to specify types and
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459 placement of the user-settable variables.
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460
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461 You can now specify the types of user-settable variables in your Lisp
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462 packages to be customized by users. To do so, use `defcustom' as a
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463 replacement for `defvar'.
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464
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465 For example, the old declaration:
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466
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467 (defvar foo-blurgoze nil
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468 "*non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely.")
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471
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472 (defcustom foo-blurgoze nil
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473 "*non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely."
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474 :type 'boolean
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475 :group 'foo)
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476
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477 From a package writer's point of view, nothing has been changed
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478 However, the user can now type `M-x customize RET foo-blurgoze RET' to
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479 customize the variable.
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480
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481 Other, more complex data structures can be described with `defcustom'
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482 too, for instance:
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483
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484 (defcustom foo-hairy-alist '((somekey . "somestring")
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485 (otherkey . (foo-doit))
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486 (thirdkey . [1 2 3]))
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487 "*Alist describing the hairy options of the foo package.
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488 The CAR of each element is a symbol, whereas the CDR can be either a
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489 string, a form to evaluate, or a vector of integers.
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490 New Emacs users simply adore alists like this one."
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491 :type '(repeat (cons (symbol :tag "Key")
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492 (choice string
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493 (vector (repeat :inline t integer))
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494 sexp)))
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495 :group 'foo)
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496
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497 The user will be able to add and remove the entries to the list in a
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498 visually appealing way, as well as save the settings to his/her
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499 `.emacs'.
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500
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501 Note that `defcustom' will also be included in GNU Emacs 19.35, and
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502 that both XEmacs and GNU Emacs will be using it in the future.
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503 Although the user-interface of customize may change, the Lisp
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504 interface will remain the same. This is why we recommend that you use
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505 `defcustom' for user-settable variables in your new Lisp packages.
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506
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507 ** The `read-kbd-macro' function is now available.
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508
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509 The `read-kbd-macro' function (as well as the read-time evaluated
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510 `kbd' macro) from the edmacro package is now available in XEmacs. For
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511 example:
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512
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513 (define-key foo-mode-map (kbd "C-c <up>") 'foo-up)
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514
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516
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517 (define-key foo-mode-map [(control ?c) up] 'foo-up)
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518
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519 The `kbd' macro is preferred over `read-kbd-macro' function , as it
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520 evaluates before compiling, thus having no loading overhead.
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521
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522 Using `kbd' is not necessary for GNU Emacs compatibility (GNU Emacs
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523 supports the XEmacs-style keysyms), but adds to clarity. For example,
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524 (kbd "C-?") is usually easier to read than [(control ??)]. The full
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525 description of the syntax of keybindings accepted by `read-kbd-macro'
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526 is documented in the docstring of `edmacro-mode'.
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527
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528 ** Overlay compatibility is implemented.
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529
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530 The overlay support in XEmacs is now functional. Written by Joe
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531 Nuspl, the overlay compatibility library overlay.el is implemented on
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532 top of the native XEmacs extents, and can be used as a GNU
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533 Emacs-compatible way of changing display properties.
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534
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126
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535 ** You should use keysyms kp-* (kp-1, kp-2, ..., kp-enter etc.)
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536 rather than the old form kp_*. The new form is also compatible with
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537 GNU Emacs.
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538
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539 ** The keysyms mouse-1, mouse-2, mouse-3 and down-mouse-1,
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540 down-mouse-2, and down-mouse-3 have been added for GNU Emacs
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541 compatibility.
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542
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543 ** A new user variable `signal-error-on-buffer-boundary' has been
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544 added.
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545
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546 Set this to variable to nil to avoid XEmacs usual lossage of zmacs
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547 region when moving up against a buffer boundary.
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548
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549 ** The `eval-after-load' and `eval-next-after-load' functions are
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550 now available.
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551
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552 ** A bug that prevented `current-display-table' to be correctly set
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553 with `set-specifier' has been fixed.
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554
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555 ** The bug in easymenu which prevented multiple menus from being
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556 accessible through button3 has been fixed.
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557
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558 You can now safely use easymenu to define multiple menu entries in a
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559 compatible way, with the added menus accessible via button3 as local
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560 submenus.
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561
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562 ** Many bugs in the scrollbar code have been fixed.
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563
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564 ** First alpha level support of MS Windows NT is available, courtesy
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565 of David Hobley.
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566
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567 ** Wnn/egg now has initial support Courtesy of Jareth Hein.
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568
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569 ** Some old non-working code has been removed until someone chooses
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570 to work on it.
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571
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572 This includes much of the NeXTStep stuff. The VMS support is also
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573 likely to be removed in the future.
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574
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575 ** Many files have been purged out of the etc/ directory.
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576
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577 If you still need the purged files, look for them in the GNU Emacs
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578 distribution.
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579
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580
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581 * Changes in XEmacs 20.1
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582 ========================
|
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583
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584 XEmacs 20.1 has not been released to the net. Please consult the 20.2
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585 entries instead.
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586
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587
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589 ===========================================
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88
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590
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591 XEmacs 20.0 is the first public release to have support for MULE
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592 (Multi-Lingual Emacs). The --with-mule configuration flag must be
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593 used to enable Mule support.
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594
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595 Many bugs have been fixed. An effort has been made to eradicate all
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596 XEmacs crashes, although we are not quite done yet. The overall
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597 quality of XEmacs should be higher than any previous release. XEmacs
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598 now compiles with nary a warning with some compilers.
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599
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600 -- Multiple character sets can be displayed in a buffer. The file
|
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601 mule-doc/demo in the distribution contains a greeting in many
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602 different languages.
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603
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604 -- Although the Mule work is for all languages, particular effort has
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605 been invested in Japanese, with particular focus on Japanese users
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606 of Sun WorkShop. Many menubar labels have been translated into
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90
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607 Japanese. Martin Buchholz, the maintainer of MULE features within
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608 XEmacs normaly runs XEmacs in a Japanese language environment.
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609 Some of the other contributors are Japanese, most importantly
|
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610 Morioka Tomohiko, author of the TM package, providing MIME support
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|
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611 for Mail and News.
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88
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612
|
|
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613 -- Input for complex Asian languages is supported via XIM, a mechanism
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614 introduced in X11R5 to allow applications to get localized input
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615 without knowledge of the language. The way XIM works is that when
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616 the locale has a complex character set, such as Japanese, and extra
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|
617 minibuffer-like status window appears attached to various
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618 application windows, and indicates the status of the input method.
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|
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619 Composed input in XEmacs should work the same as with other
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620 applications. If Motif and Mule support is configured into XEmacs,
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621 then XIM support is automatically configured in as well.
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622
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|
623 -- TM (Tools for Mime) now comes with XEmacs. This provides MIME
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|
624 (Multi-purpose Internet Multi-media Extensions?) support for Mail
|
|
|
625 and News. The primary author is Morioka Tomohiko.
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|
|
626
|
|
|
627 -- Japanese input can also be input using the `canna' input method.
|
|
|
628 This support was contributed by Morioka Tomohiko. Setting up canna
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|
|
629 usually requires more user effort (and better knowledge of Japanese!)
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|
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630 than XIM, but provides a better-integrated input method.
|
|
|
631
|
|
|
632 -- A mini-tutorial on using Mule:
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|
|
633
|
|
|
634 -- Every time data passes between XEmacs and the rest of the
|
|
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635 environment, via file or process input or output, XEmacs must
|
|
|
636 convert between its internal multi-character representation and
|
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637 the external representation (`coding system'). Many
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638 difficulties with Mule are related to controlling these coding
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639 system conversions.
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|
640
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|
641 -- file-coding-system, file-coding-system-for-read,
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|
|
642 overriding-file-coding-system, and file-coding-system-alist
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|
|
643 are used to determine the coding systems used on file input
|
|
|
644 and output.
|
|
|
645
|
|
|
646 -- For each process, (set-process-input-coding-system) and
|
|
|
647 (set-process-output-coding-system) determine the coding
|
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|
648 system used for I/O from the process.
|
|
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649
|
|
|
650 -- Many other things are encoded using pathname-coding-system:
|
|
|
651 -- file and directory names
|
|
|
652 -- window manager properties: window title, icon name
|
|
|
653 -- process names and process arguments
|
|
|
654 -- XIM input.
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|
655
|
|
|
656 -- In many cases, you will want to have the same values for all
|
|
|
657 the above variables in many cases. For example, in a
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|
658 Japanese environment, you will want to use the 'euc-japan
|
|
|
659 coding system consistently, except when running certain
|
|
|
660 processes that do byte-oriented, rather than
|
|
|
661 character-oriented I/O, such as gzip, or when processing Mail
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662 or News, where ISO2022-based coding systems are the norm,
|
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|
663 since they support multiple character sets.
|
|
|
664
|
|
|
665 -- To add support for a new language or character set, start by
|
|
|
666 trying to copy code in japanese-hooks.el.
|
|
|
667
|
|
|
668 -- The traditional pre-Mule data conversion is equivalent to the
|
|
|
669 'binary coding system under Mule. In this case all characters
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|
670 are treated as iso8859-1 (i.e. characters for English + Western
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|
671 European languages).
|
|
|
672
|
|
|
673 -- many fileio-related commands such as find-file and write-file
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|
|
674 take an extra argument, coding-system, which specifies the
|
|
|
675 encoding to be used with the file on disk. For example, here is
|
|
|
676 a command that converts from the Japanese EUC to ISO2022 format:
|
|
|
677
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|
678 xemacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file
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679 "locale-start.el.euc" (quote euc-japan)) (write-file
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|
|
680 "locale-start.el" nil (quote iso-2022-8-unix)))'
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|
|
681
|
|
|
682 Interactively, you can be prompted for a coding system by
|
|
|
683 providing a prefix argument to the fileio command. In
|
|
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684 particular, C-u C-x C-f is a useful sequence to edit a file
|
|
|
685 using a particular coding system.
|
|
|
686
|
|
|
687 -- In an Asian locale (i.e. if $LANG is set to ja, ko, or zh),
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688 XEmacs automatically sets up a language environment assuming
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689 that the operating system encodes information in the national
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|
690 version of EUC, which supports English and the national
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691 language, but typically no other character sets.
|
|
|
692
|
|
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693 -- Command line processing should work much better now - no more order
|
|
|
694 dependencies.
|
|
|
695
|
|
|
696 -- Many many package upgraded (thanks go to countless maintainers):
|
|
|
697
|
|
|
698 -- ediff 2.64 (Michael Kifer)
|
|
90
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699 -- Gnus 5.2.40 (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
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88
|
700 -- w3 3.0.51 (Bill Perry)
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90
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701 -- ilisp 5.8 (Chris McConnell, Ivan Vasquez, Marco Antoniotti, Rick
|
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702 Campbell)
|
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88
|
703 -- VM 5.97 (Kyle Jones)
|
|
|
704 -- etags 11.78 (Francesco Potorti`)
|
|
|
705 -- ksh-mode.el 2.9
|
|
|
706 -- vhdl-mode.el 2.73 (Rod Whitby)
|
|
|
707 -- id-select.el (Bob Weiner)
|
|
|
708 -- EDT/TPU emulation modes should work now for the first time.
|
|
|
709 -- viper 2.92 (Michael Kifer) is now the `official' vi emulator for XEmacs.
|
|
|
710 -- big-menubar should work much better now.
|
|
|
711 -- mode-motion+.el 3.16
|
|
|
712 -- backup-dir 2.0 (Greg Klanderman)
|
|
|
713 -- ps-print.el-3.05 (Jacques Duthen Prestataire)
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90
|
714 -- lazy-lock-1.15 (Simon Marshall)
|
|
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715 -- reporter 3.3 (Barry Warsaw)
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88
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716 -- hm--html-menus 5.0 (Heiko Muenkel)
|
|
|
717 -- cc-mode 4.322 (Barry Warsaw)
|
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718 -- elp 2.37 (Barry Warsaw)
|
|
|
719
|
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720
|
|
|
721 -- Many new packages have been added:
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|
|
722 -- m4-mode 1.8 (Andrew Csillag)
|
|
|
723 -- crisp.el - crisp/brief emulation (Gary D. Foster)
|
|
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724 -- Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el has been ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva
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90
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725 -- psgml-1.01 (Lennart Staflin, James Clark)
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88
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726 -- python-mode.el 2.83 (Barry Warsaw)
|
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|
727 -- vrml-mode.el (Ben Wing)
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90
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728 -- enriched.el, face-menu.el (Boris Goldowsky, Michael Sperber)
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729 -- sh-script.el (Daniel Pfeiffer)
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730 -- decipher.el (Christopher J. Madsen)
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88
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731
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732 -- New function x-keysym-on-keyboard-p helps determine keyboard
|
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733 characteristics for key rebinding:
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734
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735 x-keysym-on-keyboard-p: (KEYSYM &optional DEVICE)
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736 -- a built-in function.
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737 Return true if KEYSYM names a key on the keyboard of DEVICE.
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738 More precisely, return true if pressing a physical key
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739 on the keyboard of DEVICE without any modifier keys generates KEYSYM.
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740 Valid keysyms are listed in the files /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h and in
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741 /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or whatever the equivalents are on your system.
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742
|
|
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743 -- Installed info files are now compressed (support courtesy of Joseph J Nuspl)
|
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744
|
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745 -- (load-average) works on Solaris, even if you're not root. Thanks to
|
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746 Hrvoje Niksic.
|
|
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747
|
|
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748 -- OffiX drag-and-drop support added
|
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749
|
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750 -- lots of syncing with 19.34 elisp files, most by Steven Baur
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70
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751
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752
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0
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753 ** Major Differences Between 19.13 and 19.14
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754 ============================================
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755
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756 XEmacs has a new address! The canonical ftp site is now
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757 ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs and the Web page is now at
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758 http://www.xemacs.org/. All mailing lists now have @xemacs.org
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|
759 addresses. For the time being the @cs.uiuc.edu addresses will
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|
760 continue to function.
|
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761
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|
762 This is a major new release. Many features have been added, as well
|
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|
763 as many bugs fixed. The Motif menubar has still _NOT_ been fixed for
|
|
|
764 19.14. You should use the Lucid menubar instead.
|
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765
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766
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767
|
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768 Major user-visible changes:
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769 ---------------------------
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770
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771 -- Color support in TTY mode is provided. You have to have a TTY capable
|
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772 of displaying them, such as color xterm or the console under Linux.
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773 If your terminal type supports colors (e.g. `xterm-color'), XEmacs
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774 will automatically notice this and start using color.
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775
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776 -- blink-cursor-mode enables a blinking text cursor. There is a
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777 menubar option for this also.
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778
|
|
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779 -- auto-show-mode is turned on by default; this means that XEmacs
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|
780 will automatically scroll a window horizontally as necessary to
|
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|
781 keep point in view.
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782
|
|
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783 -- a file dialog box is provided and will be used whenever you
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|
784 are prompted for a filename as a result of a menubar selection.
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785
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|
786 -- XEmacs can be compiled with built-in GIF, JPEG, and PNG support.
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|
787 The GIF libraries are supplied with XEmacs; for JPEG and PNG,
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|
788 you have to obtain the appropriate libraries (this is well-
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789 documented). This makes image display much easier and faster under
|
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790 W3 (the web browser) and TM (adds MIME support to VM and GNUS;
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791 not yet included with XEmacs but will be in 19.15).
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792
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793 -- XEmacs provides a really nice mode (PSGML with "Wing improvements")
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794 for editing HTML and other SGML documents. It parses the document,
|
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795 and as a result it does proper indentation, can show you the context
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796 you're in, the allowed tags at a particular position, etc.
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797
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798 -- XEmacs comes standard with modes for editing Java and VRML code,
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799 including font-lock support.
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800
|
|
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801 -- GNUS 5.2 comes standard with XEmacs.
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802
|
|
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803 -- You can now embed colors in the modeline, with different sections
|
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|
804 of the modeline responding appropriately to various mouse gestures:
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805 For example, clicking on the "read-only" indicator toggles the
|
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806 read-only status of a buffer, and clicking on the buffer name
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|
807 cycles to the next buffer. Pressing button3 on these areas brings
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808 up a popup menu of appropriate commands.
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809
|
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810 -- There is a much nicer mode for completion lists and such.
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|
811 At the minibuffer prompt, if you hit page-up or Meta-V, the completion
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812 buffer will be displayed (if it wasn't already), you're moved into
|
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|
813 it, and can move around and select filenames using the arrow keys
|
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814 and the return key. Rather than a cursor, a filename is highlighted,
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|
815 and the arrow keys change which filename is highlighted.
|
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816
|
|
|
817 -- The edit-faces subsystem has also been much improved, in somewhat
|
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|
818 similar ways to the completion list improvements.
|
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819
|
|
|
820 -- Many improvements were made to the multi-device support.
|
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|
821 We now provide an auxiliary utility called "gnuattach" that
|
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|
822 lets you connect to an existing XEmacs process and display
|
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|
823 a TTY frame on the current TTY connection, and commands
|
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|
824 `make-frame-on-display' (with a corresponding menubar entry)
|
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825 and `make-frame-on-tty' for more easily creating frames on
|
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|
826 new TTY or X connections.
|
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827
|
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828 -- We have incorporated nearly all of the functionality of GNU Emacs
|
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|
829 19.30 into XEmacs. This includes support for lazy-loaded
|
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|
830 byte code and documentation strings, improved paragraph filling,
|
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|
831 better support for margins within documents, v19 regular expression
|
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|
832 routines (including caching of compiled regexps), etc.
|
|
|
833
|
|
|
834 -- In accordance with GNU Emacs 19.30, the following key binding
|
|
|
835 changes have been made:
|
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|
836
|
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|
837 C-x ESC -> C-x ESC ESC
|
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|
838 ESC ESC -> ESC :
|
|
|
839 ESC ESC ESC is "abort anything" (keyboard-escape-quit).
|
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|
840
|
|
|
841 -- All major packages have been updated to their latest-released
|
|
|
842 versions.
|
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843
|
|
|
844 -- XEmacs now gracefully handles a full colormap (such as typically
|
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|
845 results when running Netscape). The nearest available color
|
|
|
846 is automatically substituted.
|
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|
847
|
|
|
848 -- Many bug fixes to the subprocess/PTY code, ps-print, menubar
|
|
|
849 functions, `set-text-properties', DEC Alpha support, toolbar
|
|
|
850 resizing (the "phantom VM toolbar" bug), and lots and lots
|
|
|
851 of other things were made.
|
|
|
852
|
|
|
853 -- The ncurses library (a replacement for curses, found especially
|
|
|
854 under Linux) is supported, and will be automatically used
|
|
|
855 if it can be found.
|
|
|
856
|
|
|
857 -- You can now undo in the minibuffer.
|
|
|
858
|
|
|
859 -- Surrogate minibuffers now work. These are also sometimes referred
|
|
|
860 to as "global" minibuffers.
|
|
|
861
|
|
|
862 -- font-lock has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.30, improved defaults
|
|
|
863 have been added, and changes have been made to the way it is
|
|
|
864 configured.
|
|
|
865
|
|
|
866 -- Many, many modes have menubar entries for them.
|
|
|
867
|
|
|
868 -- `recover-session' lets you recover whatever files can be recovered
|
|
|
869 after your XEmacs process has died unexpectedly.
|
|
|
870
|
|
|
871 -- C-h k followed by a toolbar button press correctly reports
|
|
|
872 the binding of the toolbar button.
|
|
|
873
|
|
|
874 -- `function-key-map', `key-translation-map', and `keyboard-translate-table'
|
|
|
875 are now correctly implemented.
|
|
|
876
|
|
|
877 -- `show-message-log' (and its menubar entry under Edit) have been
|
|
|
878 removed; instead use `view-lossage' (and its menubar entry under
|
|
|
879 Help).
|
|
|
880
|
|
|
881 -- There is a standard menubar entry for specifying which browser
|
|
|
882 (Netscape, W3, Mosaic, etc.) to use when dispatching URL's
|
|
|
883 in mail, Usenet news, etc.
|
|
|
884
|
|
|
885 -- Improved native sound support under Linux.
|
|
|
886
|
|
|
887 -- Lots of other things we forgot to mention.
|
|
|
888
|
|
|
889
|
|
|
890
|
|
|
891 Significant Lisp-level changes:
|
|
|
892 -------------------------------
|
|
|
893
|
|
|
894 -- Many improvements to the E-Lisp documentation have been made;
|
|
|
895 it should now be up-to-date and complete in nearly all cases.
|
|
|
896
|
|
|
897 -- XEmacs has extensive documentation on its internals, for
|
|
|
898 would-be C hackers.
|
|
|
899
|
|
|
900 -- Common-Lisp support (the CL package) is now dumped standard
|
|
|
901 into XEmacs. No more need for (require 'cl) or anything
|
|
|
902 like that.
|
|
|
903
|
|
|
904 -- Full support for extents and text properties over strings is
|
|
|
905 provided.
|
|
|
906
|
|
|
907 -- The extent properties `start-open', `end-open', `start-closed',
|
|
|
908 and `end-closed' now work correctly w.r.t. text properties.
|
|
|
909
|
|
|
910 -- The `face' property of extents and text properties can now
|
|
|
911 be a list.
|
|
|
912
|
|
116
|
913 -- The `mouse-face' property from GNU Emacs is now supported.
|
|
0
|
914 It supersedes the `highlight' property.
|
|
|
915
|
|
116
|
916 -- `enriched' and `facemenu' packages from GNU Emacs have been ported.
|
|
0
|
917
|
|
|
918 -- New functions for easier creation of dialog boxes:
|
|
|
919 `get-dialog-box-response', `message-box', and `message-or-box'.
|
|
|
920
|
|
|
921 -- `function-min-args' and `function-max-args' allow you to determine
|
|
|
922 the minimum and maximum allowed arguments for any type of
|
|
|
923 function (i.e. subr, lambda expression, byte-compiled function, etc.).
|
|
|
924
|
|
|
925 -- Some C-level support for doing E-Lisp profiling is provided.
|
|
|
926 See `start-profiling', `stop-profiling', and
|
|
|
927 `pretty-print-profiling-info'.
|
|
|
928
|
|
|
929 -- `current-process-time' reports the user, system, and real times
|
|
|
930 for the currently running XEmacs process.
|
|
|
931
|
|
|
932 -- `next-window', `previous-window', `next-frame', `previous-frame',
|
|
|
933 `other-window', `get-lru-window', etc. have an extra device
|
|
|
934 argument that allows you to restrict which devices it includes
|
|
|
935 (normally all devices). Some functions that incorrectly ignored
|
|
|
936 frames on different devices (e.g. C-x 0) are fixed.
|
|
|
937
|
|
|
938 -- new functions `run-hook-with-args-until-success',
|
|
|
939 `run-hook-with-args-until-failure'.
|
|
|
940
|
|
|
941 -- generalized facility for local vs. global hooks. See `make-local-hook',
|
|
|
942 `add-hook'.
|
|
|
943
|
|
|
944 -- New functions for querying the window tree: `frame-leftmost-window',
|
|
|
945 `frame-rightmost-window', `window-first-hchild', `window-first-vchild',
|
|
|
946 `window-next-child', `window-previous-child', and `window-parent'.
|
|
|
947
|
|
|
948 -- Epoch support works. This gets you direct access to some X events
|
|
|
949 and objects (e.g. properties and property-notify events).
|
|
|
950
|
|
|
951 -- The multi-device support has been majorly revamped. There is now
|
|
|
952 a new concept of "consoles" (devices grouped together under a
|
|
|
953 common keyboard/mouse), console-local variables, and a generalized
|
|
|
954 concept of device/console connection.
|
|
|
955
|
|
|
956 -- `display-buffer' synched with GNU Emacs 19.30, giving you lots of
|
|
|
957 wondrous cruft such as
|
|
|
958 -- unsplittable frames
|
|
|
959 -- pop-up-frames, pop-up-frame-function
|
|
|
960 -- special-display-buffer-names, special-display-regexps,
|
|
|
961 special-display-function
|
|
|
962 -- same-window-buffer-names, same-window-regexps
|
|
|
963
|
|
|
964 -- XEmacs has support for accessing DBM- and/or DB-format databases,
|
|
|
965 provided that you have the appropriate libraries on your system.
|
|
|
966
|
|
|
967 -- There is a new font style: "strikethru" fonts.
|
|
|
968
|
|
|
969 -- New data type "weak list", which is a list with special
|
|
|
970 garbage-collection properties, similar to weak hash tables.
|
|
|
971
|
|
|
972 -- `set-face-parent' makes one face inherit all properties from another.
|
|
|
973
|
|
|
974 -- The junky frame parameters mechanism has been revamped as
|
|
|
975 frame properties, which a standard property-list interface.
|
|
|
976
|
|
|
977 -- Lots and lots of functions for working with property lists have
|
|
|
978 been added.
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 -- New functions `push-window-configuration', `pop-window-configuration',
|
|
|
981 `unpop-window-configuration' for maintain a stack of window
|
|
|
982 configurations.
|
|
|
983
|
|
|
984 -- Many fixups to the glyph code; icons and mouse pointers are now
|
|
|
985 properly merged into the glyph mechanism.
|
|
|
986
|
|
|
987 -- `set-specifier' works more sensibly, like `set-face-property'.
|
|
|
988
|
|
|
989 -- Many new specifiers for individually controlling toolbar height/width
|
|
|
990 and visibility and text cursor visibility.
|
|
|
991
|
|
|
992 -- New face `text-cursor' controls the colors of the text cursor.
|
|
|
993
|
|
|
994 -- Many new variables for turning on debug information about the
|
|
|
995 inner workings of XEmacs.
|
|
|
996
|
|
|
997 -- Hash tables can now compare their keys using `equal' or `eql'
|
|
|
998 as well as `eq'.
|
|
|
999
|
|
|
1000 -- Other things too numerous to mention.
|
|
|
1001
|
|
|
1002
|
|
|
1003
|
|
|
1004 Significant configuration/build changes:
|
|
|
1005 ----------------------------------------
|
|
|
1006
|
|
|
1007 -- You can disable TTY support, toolbar support, scrollbar support,
|
|
|
1008 menubar support, and/or dialog box support at configure time
|
|
|
1009 to save memory.
|
|
|
1010
|
|
|
1011 -- New configure option `--extra-verbose' shows the diagnostic
|
|
|
1012 output from feature testing; this should help track down
|
|
|
1013 problems with incorrect feature detection.
|
|
|
1014
|
|
|
1015 -- `dont-have-xmu' is now `with-xmu', with the reversed sense.
|
|
|
1016 (It defaults to `yes'.)
|
|
|
1017
|
|
|
1018 -- `with-mocklisp' lets you add Mocklisp support if you really
|
|
|
1019 need this.
|
|
|
1020
|
|
|
1021 -- `with-term' for adding TERM support for Linux users.
|
|
|
1022
|
|
|
1023
|
|
|
1024
|
|
|
1025 ** Major Differences Between 19.12 and 19.13
|
|
|
1026 ============================================
|
|
|
1027
|
|
|
1028 This is primarily a bug-fix release. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
|
|
|
1029 Hopefully only a few have been introduced. The most noteworthy bug
|
|
|
1030 fixes are:
|
|
|
1031
|
|
|
1032 -- There should be no more problems connecting XEmacs to an X
|
|
|
1033 server over SLIP or other slow connections.
|
|
|
1034 -- Periodic crashes when using the Buffers menu should be gone.
|
|
|
1035 -- etags would sometimes erase the current buffer; it doesn't
|
|
|
1036 any more.
|
|
|
1037 -- XEmacs will correctly exit if the X server dies.
|
|
|
1038 -- uniconified frames are displayed properly under TVTWM.
|
|
|
1039 -- Breakage in `add-menu-item' / `add-menu-button' is fixed.
|
|
|
1040
|
|
|
1041 The Motif menubar has _NOT_ been fixed for 19.13. You should use the
|
|
|
1042 Lucid menubar instead.
|
|
|
1043
|
|
|
1044 Multi-device support should now be working properly. You can now open
|
|
|
1045 an X device after having started out on a TTY device.
|
|
|
1046
|
|
|
1047 Background pixmaps now work. See `set-face-background-pixmap'.
|
|
|
1048
|
|
|
1049 Echo area messages are now saved to a buffer, " *Message Log*". To
|
|
|
1050 see this buffer, use the command `show-message-log'. It is possible
|
|
|
1051 to filter the message which are actually included by modifying the
|
|
|
1052 variables `log-message-ignore-regexps' and `log-message-ignore-labels'.
|
|
|
1053
|
|
|
1054 You can now control which warnings you want to see. See
|
|
|
1055 `display-warning-suppressed-classes' and friends.
|
|
|
1056
|
|
|
1057 You can now set the default location of an "other window" from the
|
|
|
1058 Options menu.
|
|
|
1059
|
|
|
1060 "Save Options" now saves the state of all faces.
|
|
|
1061
|
|
|
1062 You can choose which file "Save Options" writes into; see
|
|
|
1063 `save-options-file'.
|
|
|
1064
|
|
|
1065 XPM support is no longer required for the toolbar.
|
|
|
1066
|
|
|
1067 The relocating allocator is now enabled by default whenever possible.
|
|
|
1068 This allows buffer memory to be returned to the system when no longer
|
|
|
1069 in use which helps keep XEmacs process size down.
|
|
|
1070
|
|
|
1071 The ability to have captioned toolbars has been added. Currently only
|
|
|
1072 the default toolbar actually has a captioned version provided. A new
|
|
|
1073 specifier variable, `toolbar-buttons-captioned-p' controls whether the
|
|
|
1074 toolbar is captioned.
|
|
|
1075
|
|
|
1076 A copy of the XEmacs FAQ is now included and is available through info.
|
|
|
1077
|
|
|
1078 The on-line E-Lisp reference manual has been significantly updated.
|
|
|
1079
|
|
|
1080 There is now audio support under Linux.
|
|
|
1081
|
|
|
1082 Modifier keys can now be sticky. This is controlled by the variable
|
|
|
1083 `modifier-keys-are-sticky'.
|
|
|
1084
|
|
|
1085 manual-entry should now work correctly under Irix with the penalty of
|
|
|
1086 a longer startup time the first time it is invoked. If you are having
|
|
|
1087 problems with this on another system try setting
|
|
|
1088 `Manual-use-subdirectory-list' to t.
|
|
|
1089
|
|
|
1090 make-tty-device no longer automatically creates the first frame.
|
|
|
1091
|
|
|
1092 Rectangular regions now work correctly.
|
|
|
1093
|
|
|
1094 ediff no longer sets synchronize-minibuffers to t unless you first set
|
|
|
1095 ediff-synchronize-minibuffers
|
|
|
1096
|
|
|
1097 keyboard-translate-table has been implemented. This means that the
|
|
|
1098 `enable-flow-control' command for dealing with TTY connections that
|
|
|
1099 filter out ^S and ^Q now works.
|
|
|
1100
|
|
|
1101 You can now create frames that are initially unmapped and frames that
|
|
|
1102 are "transient for another frame", meaning that they behave more like
|
|
|
1103 dialog-box frames.
|
|
|
1104
|
|
|
1105 Other E-Lisp changes:
|
|
|
1106
|
|
|
1107 -- Specifier `menubar-visible-p' for controlling menubar visibility
|
|
|
1108 -- Local command hooks should be set using `local-pre-command-hook'
|
|
|
1109 and `local-post-command-hook' instead of making the global
|
|
|
1110 equivalents be buffer-local.
|
|
|
1111 -- `quit-char', `help-char', `meta-prefix-char' can be any key specifier
|
|
|
1112 instead of just an integer.
|
|
|
1113 -- new functions `add-async-timeout' and `disable-async-timeout'.
|
|
|
1114 These let you create asynchronous timeouts, which are like
|
|
|
1115 normal timeouts except that they're executed even during
|
|
|
1116 running Lisp code. Use this with care!
|
|
|
1117 -- `debug-on-error' and `stack-trace-on-error' now enter the debugger
|
|
|
1118 only when an *unhandled* error occurs. If you want the old
|
|
|
1119 behavior, use `debug-on-signal' and `stack-trace-on-signal'.
|
|
|
1120 -- \U, \L, \u, \l, \E recognized specially in `replace-match'.
|
|
|
1121 These are standard ex/perl commands for changing the case of
|
|
|
1122 replaced text.
|
|
|
1123 -- New function event-matches-key-specifier-p. This provides
|
|
|
1124 a clean way of comparing keypress events with key specifiers
|
|
|
1125 such as 65, (shift home), etc. without having to resort
|
|
|
1126 to ugly `character-to-event' / `event-to-character' hacks.
|
|
|
1127 -- New function `add-to-list'
|
|
|
1128 -- New Common-Lisp functions `some', `every', `notevery', `notany',
|
|
|
1129 `adjoin', `union', `intersection', `set-difference',
|
|
|
1130 `set-exclusive-or', `subsetp'
|
|
|
1131 -- `remove-face-property' provides a clean way of removing a
|
|
|
1132 face property.
|
|
|
1133
|
|
|
1134 Many of the Emacs Lisp packages have been updated. Some of the new
|
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1135 Emacs Lisp packages ---
|
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1136
|
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1137 ada-mode: major mode for editing Ada source
|
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1138
|
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1139 arc-mode: simple editing of archives
|
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1140
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70
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1141 auto-show-mode: automatically scrolls horizontally to keep point on-screen
|
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0
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1142
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1143 completion: dynamic word completion mode
|
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1144
|
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1145 dabbrev: the dynamic abbrev package has been rewritten and is much
|
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1146 more powerful -- e.g. it searches in other buffers as well
|
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|
1147 as the current one
|
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1148
|
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1149 easymenu: menu support package
|
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1150
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1151 live-icon: makes frame icons represent the current frame contents
|
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1152
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1153 mailcrypt 3.2: mail encryption with PGP; included but v2.4 is still
|
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70
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1154 the default
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1155
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1156 two-column: for editing two-column text
|
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0
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1157
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1158
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1159 ** Major Differences Between 19.11 and 19.12
|
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|
1160 ============================================
|
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1161
|
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|
1162 This is a huge new release. Almost every aspect of XEmacs has been changed
|
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1163 at least somewhat. The highlights are:
|
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1164
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1165 -- TTY support (includes face support)
|
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1166 -- new redisplay engine; should be faster, less buggy, and more powerful
|
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1167 -- terminology change from "screen" to "frame"
|
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1168 -- built-in toolbar
|
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1169 -- toolbar support added to many packages
|
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1170 -- multiple device support (still in beta; improvements to come in
|
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1171 19.13)
|
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1172 -- Purify used to ensure that there are no memory leaks or memory corruption
|
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|
1173 problems
|
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|
1174 -- horizontal and vertical scrollbars in all windows
|
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1175 -- new Lucid (i.e. look-alike Motif) scrollbar widget
|
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|
1176 -- stay-up menus in the Lucid (look-alike Motif) menubar widget
|
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|
1177 -- 3-d modeline
|
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1178 -- new extents engine; should be faster, less buggy, and more powerful
|
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1179 -- much more powerful control over faces
|
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1180 -- expanded menubar
|
|
|
1181 -- more work on synching with GNU Emacs 19.28
|
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|
1182 -- new packages: Hyperbole, OOBR (object browser), hm--html-menus, viper,
|
|
|
1183 lazy-lock.el, ksh-mode.el, rsz-minibuf.el
|
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1184 -- package updates for all major packages
|
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|
1185 -- dynodump package for Solaris: provides proper undumping and portable
|
|
|
1186 binaries across different OS versions and machine types
|
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|
1187 -- Greatly expanded concept of "glyphs" (pixmaps etc. in a buffer)
|
|
|
1188 -- built-in support for displaying X-Faces, if the X-Face library is
|
|
|
1189 available
|
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1190 -- built-in support for SOCKS if the SOCKS library is available
|
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1191 -- graceful behavior when the colormap is full (e.g. Netscape ate
|
|
|
1192 all the colors)
|
|
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1193 -- built-in MD5 (secure hashing function) support
|
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1194
|
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1195
|
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1196 More specific information:
|
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1197
|
|
|
1198 *** TTY Support
|
|
|
1199 ---------------
|
|
|
1200
|
|
|
1201 The long-awaited TTY support is now available. XEmacs will start up
|
|
|
1202 in TTY mode (using the tty you started XEmacs from) if the DISPLAY
|
|
|
1203 environment variable is not set or if you use the `-nw' option.
|
|
|
1204
|
|
|
1205 Faces are available on TTY's. For a demonstration, try editing a C
|
|
|
1206 file and turning on font-lock-mode.
|
|
|
1207
|
|
|
1208 You can also connect to additional TTY's using `make-tty-device',
|
|
|
1209 whether your first frame was a TTY or an X window. This ability is
|
|
|
1210 not yet completely finished.
|
|
|
1211
|
|
|
1212 The full event-loop capabilities (processes, timeouts, etc.) are
|
|
|
1213 available on TTY's.
|
|
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1214
|
|
|
1215
|
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1216
|
|
|
1217 *** New Redisplay Engine
|
|
|
1218 ------------------------
|
|
|
1219
|
|
|
1220 The redisplay engine has been rewritten to improve its efficiency and
|
|
|
1221 to increase its functionality. It should also be significantly more
|
|
|
1222 bug-free than the previous redisplay engine.
|
|
|
1223
|
|
|
1224 A line that is not big enough to display at the bottom of the window
|
|
|
1225 will normally be clipped (so that it is partially visible) rather than
|
|
|
1226 not displayed at all. The variable `pixel-vertical-clip-threshold'
|
|
|
1227 can be used to control the minimum space that must be available for a
|
|
|
1228 line to be clipped rather than not displayed at all.
|
|
|
1229
|
|
|
1230 Tabs are displayed in such a way that things line up fairly well even
|
|
|
1231 in the presence of variable-width fonts and/or lines with
|
|
|
1232 multiply-sized fonts.
|
|
|
1233
|
|
|
1234 Display tables are implemented, through the specifier variable
|
|
|
1235 `current-display-table'. They can be buffer-local, window-local,
|
|
|
1236 frame-local, or device-local. See below for info about specifiers.
|
|
|
1237
|
|
|
1238
|
|
|
1239
|
|
|
1240 *** Toolbar
|
|
|
1241 -----------
|
|
|
1242
|
|
|
1243 There is now built-in support for a toolbar. A sample toolbar is
|
|
|
1244 visible by default at the top of the frame. Four separate toolbars
|
|
|
1245 can be configured (at the top, bottom, left, and right of the frame).
|
|
|
1246 The toolbar specification is similar to the menubar specification.
|
|
|
1247 The up, down, and disabled glyphs of a toolbar button can be
|
|
|
1248 separately controlled. Explanatory text can be echoed in the echo
|
|
|
1249 area when the mouse passes over a toolbar button. The size, contents,
|
|
|
1250 and visibility of the various toolbars can be controlled on a
|
|
|
1251 per-buffer, per-window, per-frame, and per-device basis through the
|
|
|
1252 use of specifiers. See the chapter on toolbars in the Lisp Reference
|
|
|
1253 Manual (included with XEmacs) for more information.
|
|
|
1254
|
|
|
1255 The toolbar color and shadow thicknesses are currently controlled only
|
|
|
1256 through `modify-frame-parameters' and through X resources. We are
|
|
|
1257 planning on making these controllable through specifiers as well. (Our
|
|
|
1258 hope is to make `modify-frame-parameters' obsolete, as it is a clunky
|
|
|
1259 and not very powerful mechanism.)
|
|
|
1260
|
|
|
1261 Info, GNUS, VM, W3, and various other packages include custom toolbars
|
|
|
1262 with them.
|
|
|
1263
|
|
|
1264
|
|
|
1265
|
|
|
1266 *** Menubar
|
|
|
1267 -----------
|
|
|
1268
|
|
|
1269 Stay-up menus are implemented in the look-alike Motif menubar.
|
|
|
1270
|
|
|
1271 The default menubar has been expanded to include most commonly-used
|
|
|
1272 functions in XEmacs.
|
|
|
1273
|
|
|
1274 The options menu has been greatly expanded to include many more
|
|
|
1275 options.
|
|
|
1276
|
|
|
1277 The menubar specification format has been greatly expanded. Per-menu
|
|
|
1278 activation hooks can be specified through the :filter keyword (thus
|
|
|
1279 obsoleting `activate-menubar-hook'); this allows for fast response
|
|
|
1280 time when you have a large and complex menu. You can dynamically
|
|
|
1281 control whether menu items are present through the :included and
|
|
|
1282 :config keywords. (The latter keyword implements a simple menubar
|
|
|
1283 configuration scheme, in conjunction with the variable
|
|
|
1284 `menubar-configuration'.) Many different menu-item separators (single
|
|
|
1285 or double line; solid or dashed; flat, etched-in, or etched-out) are
|
|
|
1286 available. See the chapter on menus in the Lisp Reference Manual for
|
|
|
1287 more information about all of this.
|
|
|
1288
|
|
|
1289 New functions `add-submenu' and `add-menu-button' are available.
|
|
|
1290 These supersede the older `add-menu' and `add-menu-item' functions,
|
|
|
1291 and provide a more powerful and consistent interface.
|
|
|
1292
|
|
|
1293 New convenience functions for popping up the part or all of the
|
|
|
1294 menubar in a pop-up menu are available: `popup-menubar-menu' and
|
|
|
1295 `popup-buffer-menu'.
|
|
|
1296
|
|
|
1297 Menus are now incrementally constructed greatly improving menubar
|
|
|
1298 response time.
|
|
|
1299
|
|
|
1300
|
|
|
1301
|
|
|
1302 *** Scrollbars
|
|
|
1303 --------------
|
|
|
1304
|
|
|
1305 A look-alike Motif scrollbar is now included with XEmacs. No longer
|
|
|
1306 will you have to suffer with ugly Athena scrollbars.
|
|
|
1307
|
|
|
1308 Windows can now have horizontal scrollbars. Normally they are visible
|
|
|
1309 when the window's buffer is set to truncate lines rather than wrap
|
|
|
1310 them (e.g. `(setq truncate-lines t)').
|
|
|
1311
|
|
|
1312 All windows, not only the right-most ones, can have vertical
|
|
|
1313 scrollbars.
|
|
|
1314
|
|
|
1315 The functions to change a scrollbar's width have been superseded by
|
|
|
1316 the specifier variables `scrollbar-width' and `scrollbar-height'.
|
|
|
1317 This allows their values to be controlled on a buffer-local,
|
|
|
1318 window-local, frame-local, and device-local basis. See below.
|
|
|
1319
|
|
|
1320 The scrollbars interact better with the event loop (for example, you
|
|
|
1321 can type `C-h k', do a scrollbar action, and see a description of this
|
|
|
1322 scrollbar action printed as if you had pressed a key sequence or
|
|
|
1323 selected a menu item).
|
|
|
1324
|
|
|
1325 The scrollbar behavior can be reprogrammed, by advising the
|
|
|
1326 `scrollbar-*' functions.
|
|
|
1327
|
|
|
1328
|
|
|
1329
|
|
|
1330 *** Key Bindings
|
|
|
1331 ----------------
|
|
|
1332
|
|
|
1333 The oft-used function `goto-line' now has its own binding: M-g.
|
|
|
1334
|
|
|
1335 New bindings are available for scrolling the "other" window: M-next,
|
|
|
1336 M-prior, M-home, M-end. (On many keyboards, `next' and `prior'
|
|
|
1337 labelled `PgUp' and `PgDn'.)
|
|
|
1338
|
|
|
1339 You can reactivate a deactivated Zmacs region, without having any
|
|
|
1340 other effects, with the binding M-C-z.
|
|
|
1341
|
|
|
1342 The bindings `M-u', `M-l', and `M-c' now work on the region (if a
|
|
|
1343 region is active) or work on a word, as before.
|
|
|
1344
|
|
|
1345 Shift-Control-G forces a "critical quit", which drops immediately into
|
|
|
1346 the debugger; see below.
|
|
|
1347
|
|
|
1348
|
|
|
1349
|
|
|
1350 *** Modeline
|
|
|
1351 ------------
|
|
|
1352
|
|
|
1353 The modeline can now have a 3-d look; this is enabled by default. The
|
|
|
1354 specifier variable `modeline-shadow-thickness' controls the size.
|
|
|
1355
|
|
|
1356 The modeline can now be turned off on a per-buffer, per-window,
|
|
|
1357 per-frame, or per-device basis. The specifier variable
|
|
|
1358 `has-modeline-p' controls whether the modeline is visible. See below
|
|
|
1359 for details about the vastly powerful specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
1360
|
|
|
1361 The modeline functions and variables have been renamed to be
|
|
|
1362 `*-modeline-*' rather than `*-mode-line-*'. Aliases are provided for
|
|
|
1363 all the old names.
|
|
|
1364
|
|
|
1365 Variable width fonts now work correctly when used in the modeline.
|
|
|
1366
|
|
|
1367
|
|
|
1368
|
|
|
1369 *** Minibuffer, Echo Area
|
|
|
1370 -------------------------
|
|
|
1371
|
|
|
1372 The minibuffer is no longer constrained to be one line high. The
|
|
|
1373 package rsz-minibuf.el is included to automatically resize the
|
|
|
1374 minibuffer when its contents are too big; enable this with
|
|
|
1375 `resize-minibuffer-mode'.
|
|
|
1376
|
|
|
1377 The echo area is now a true buffer, called " *Echo Area*". This
|
|
|
1378 allows you to customize the echo area behavior through
|
|
|
1379 before-change-functions and after-change-functions.
|
|
|
1380
|
|
|
1381
|
|
|
1382
|
|
|
1383 *** Specifiers
|
|
|
1384 --------------
|
|
|
1385
|
|
|
1386 XEmacs has a new concept called "specifiers", used to configure most
|
|
|
1387 display options (toolbar size and contents, scrollbar size, face
|
|
|
1388 properties, modeline visibility and shadow-thickness, glyphs, display
|
|
|
1389 tables, etc.). We are planning on converting all display
|
|
|
1390 characteristics to use specifiers, and obsoleting the clunky functions
|
|
|
1391 `frame-parameters' and `modify-frame-parameters'. Specifically:
|
|
|
1392
|
|
|
1393 -- You can specify values (called "instantiators") for particular
|
|
|
1394 "locales" (i.e. buffers, windows, frames, devices, or a global value).
|
|
|
1395 When determining what the actual value (or "instance") of a specifier
|
|
|
1396 is, the specifications that are provided are searched from most
|
|
|
1397 specific (i.e. buffer-local) to most general (i.e. global), looking
|
|
|
1398 for a matching one.
|
|
|
1399
|
|
|
1400 -- You can specify multiple instantiators for a particular locale.
|
|
|
1401 For example, when specifying what the foreground color of a face
|
|
|
1402 is in a particular buffer, you could specify two instantiators:
|
|
|
1403 "dark sea green" and "green". The color would then be dark sea
|
|
|
1404 green on devices that recognize that color, and green on other
|
|
|
1405 devices. You have effectively provided a fallback value to make
|
|
|
1406 sure you get reasonable behavior on all devices.
|
|
|
1407
|
|
|
1408 -- You can add one or more tags to an instantiator, where a tag
|
|
|
1409 is a symbol that has been previously registered with XEmacs.
|
|
|
1410 This allows you to identify your instantiators for later
|
|
|
1411 removal in a way that won't interfere with other applications
|
|
|
1412 using the same specifier. Furthermore, particular tags can
|
|
|
1413 be restricted to match only particular sorts of devices.
|
|
|
1414 Any tagged instantiator will be ignored if the device over which
|
|
|
1415 it is being instanced does not match any of its tags. This
|
|
|
1416 allows you, for example, to restrict an instantiator to a
|
|
|
1417 particular device type (X or TTY) and/or class (color, grayscale,
|
|
|
1418 or mono). (You might want to specify, for example, that a
|
|
|
1419 particular face is displayed in green on color devices and is
|
|
|
1420 underlined on mono devices.)
|
|
|
1421
|
|
|
1422 -- A full API is provided for manipulating specifiers, and full
|
|
|
1423 documentation is provided in the Lisp Reference Manual.
|
|
|
1424
|
|
|
1425
|
|
|
1426
|
|
|
1427 *** Basic Lisp Stuff
|
|
|
1428 --------------------
|
|
|
1429
|
|
|
1430 Common-Lisp backquote syntax is recognized. For example, the old
|
|
|
1431 expression
|
|
|
1432
|
|
|
1433 (` (a b (, c)))
|
|
|
1434
|
|
|
1435 can now be written
|
|
|
1436
|
|
|
1437 `(a b ,c)
|
|
|
1438
|
|
|
1439 The old backquote syntax is still accepted.
|
|
|
1440
|
|
|
1441 The new function `type-of' returns a symbol describing the type of a
|
|
|
1442 Lisp object (`integer', `string', `symbol', etc.)
|
|
|
1443
|
|
|
1444 Symbols beginning with a colon (called "keywords") are treated
|
|
|
1445 specially in that they are automatically made self-evaluating when
|
|
|
1446 they are interned into `obarray'. The new function `keywordp' returns
|
|
|
1447 whether a symbol begins with a colon.
|
|
|
1448
|
|
|
1449 `get', `put', and `remprop' have been generalized to allow you to set
|
|
|
1450 and retrieve properties on many different kinds of objects: symbols,
|
|
|
1451 strings, faces, glyphs, and extents (for extents, however, this is not
|
|
|
1452 yet implemented). They are joined by a new function `object-props'
|
|
|
1453 that returns all of the properties that have been set on an object.
|
|
|
1454
|
|
|
1455 New functions `plists-eq' and `plists-equal' are provided for
|
|
|
1456 comparing property lists (a property list is an alternating list
|
|
|
1457 of keys and values).
|
|
|
1458
|
|
|
1459 The Common-Lisp functions `caar', `cadr', `cdar', `cddr', `caaar', etc.
|
|
|
1460 (up to four a's and/or d's), `first', `second', `third', etc. (up to
|
|
|
1461 `tenth'), `last', `rest', and `endp' have been added, for more
|
|
|
1462 convenient manipulation of lists.
|
|
|
1463
|
|
|
1464 New function `mapvector' maps over a sequence and returns a vector
|
|
|
1465 of the results, analogous to `mapcar'.
|
|
|
1466
|
|
|
1467 New functions `rassoc', `remassoc', `remassq', `remrassoc', and
|
|
|
1468 `remrassq' are provided for working with alists.
|
|
|
1469
|
|
|
1470 New functions `defvaralias', `variable-alias' and `indirect-variable'
|
|
|
1471 are provided for creating variable aliases.
|
|
|
1472
|
|
|
1473 Strings have a modified-tick that is bumped every time a string
|
|
|
1474 is modified in-place with `aset' or `fillarray'. This is retrieved
|
|
|
1475 with the new function `string-modified-tick'.
|
|
|
1476
|
|
|
1477 New macro `push' destructively adds an element to the beginning of a
|
|
|
1478 list. New macro `pop' destructively removes and returns the first
|
|
|
1479 element of a list.
|
|
|
1480
|
|
|
1481
|
|
|
1482
|
|
|
1483 *** Buffers
|
|
|
1484 -----------
|
|
|
1485
|
|
|
1486 Most functions that operate on buffer text now take an optional BUFFER
|
|
|
1487 argument, specifying which buffer they operate on. (Previously, they
|
|
|
1488 always operated on the current buffer.)
|
|
|
1489
|
|
|
1490 The new function `transpose-regions' is provided, ported from GNU
|
|
|
1491 Emacs.
|
|
|
1492
|
|
|
1493 The new function `save-current-buffer' works like `save-excursion'
|
|
|
1494 but only saves the current buffer, not the location of point in
|
|
|
1495 that buffer.
|
|
|
1496
|
|
|
1497
|
|
|
1498
|
|
|
1499 *** Devices
|
|
|
1500 -----------
|
|
|
1501
|
|
|
1502 XEmacs has a new concept of "device", which is represents a particular
|
|
|
1503 X display or TTY connection. `make-frame' has a new, optional device
|
|
|
1504 parameter that allows you to specify which device the frame is to be
|
|
|
1505 created on.
|
|
|
1506
|
|
|
1507 Multiple simultaneous TTY and/or X connections may be made. The
|
|
|
1508 specifier mechanism provides reasonable behavior of glyphs, faces,
|
|
|
1509 etc. over heterogeneous device types and over devices whose individual
|
|
|
1510 capabilities may vary.
|
|
|
1511
|
|
|
1512 There is also a device type called "stream" that represents a STDIO
|
|
|
1513 device that has no redisplay or cursor-motion capabilities, such as
|
|
|
1514 the "glass terminal" that XEmacs uses when it is run noninteractively.
|
|
|
1515 There is not all that much you can do with stream devices currently;
|
|
|
1516 please let us know if there are good uses you can think of for this
|
|
|
1517 capability. (For example, log files?)
|
|
|
1518
|
|
|
1519 A new device API is provided. Functions are provided such as
|
|
|
1520 `device-name' (the name of the device, which generally is based on the
|
|
|
1521 X display or TTY file name), `device-type' (X, TTY, or stream),
|
|
|
1522 `device-class' (color, grayscale, or mono), etc. See the Lisp
|
|
|
1523 Reference Manual.
|
|
|
1524
|
|
|
1525 Many functions have been extended to contain an additional, optional
|
|
|
1526 device argument, where such an extension makes sense. In general, if
|
|
|
1527 the argument is omitted, it is equivalent to specifying
|
|
|
1528 `(selected-device)'.
|
|
|
1529
|
|
|
1530 Many previous functions and variables are obsoleted in favor of the
|
|
|
1531 device API. For example, `window-system' is obsoleted by
|
|
|
1532 `device-type', and `x-color-display-p' and friends are obsoleted by
|
|
|
1533 `device-class'.
|
|
|
1534
|
|
70
|
1535 ** NOTE **: The obsolete variable `window-system' is going
|
|
0
|
1536 to be deleted soon, probably in 19.14. Please correct all
|
|
|
1537 your code to use `device-type'.
|
|
|
1538
|
|
70
|
1539 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The function `x-display-visual-class'
|
|
0
|
1540 returns different values from previous versions of XEmacs.
|
|
|
1541
|
|
|
1542
|
|
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1543
|
|
|
1544 *** Errors, Warnings, C-g
|
|
|
1545 -------------------------
|
|
|
1546
|
|
|
1547 There is a new warnings system implemented. Many warnings that were
|
|
|
1548 formerly displayed in various ad-hoc ways (e.g. warnings about screwy
|
|
|
1549 modifier mappings, messages about failures handling the mouse cursor
|
|
|
1550 and errors in a gc-hook) have been regularized through this system.
|
|
|
1551 The new function `warn' displays a warning before the next redisplay
|
|
|
1552 (the actually display of the warning messages is accomplished through
|
|
|
1553 `display-warning-buffer'). Both `warn' and `display-warning-buffer'
|
|
|
1554 are Lisp functions (the C code calls out to them as necessary), and
|
|
|
1555 thus you can customize the warning system.
|
|
|
1556
|
|
|
1557 Under an X display, you can press Shift-Control-G to force a "critical
|
|
|
1558 quit". This will immediately display a backtrace and pop you into the
|
|
|
1559 debugger, regardless of the settings of `inhibit-quit' and
|
|
|
1560 `debug-on-quit'.
|
|
|
1561
|
|
|
1562 C-g now works properly even on systems that don't implement SIGIO or
|
|
|
1563 for which SIGIO is broken (e.g. IRIX 5.3 and older versions of Linux).
|
|
|
1564 In addition, the SIGIO support has been fixed for many systems on
|
|
|
1565 which it didn't always work properly before (e.g. HPUX and Solaris).
|
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1566
|
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70
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1567
|
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0
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1568
|
|
|
1569 *** Events
|
|
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1570 ----------
|
|
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1571
|
|
70
|
1572 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: Many event functions have been changed to
|
|
0
|
1573 accept and return windows instead of frames.
|
|
|
1574
|
|
|
1575 New function: `event-live-p', specifying whether `deallocate-event'
|
|
|
1576 has been called on an event.
|
|
|
1577
|
|
|
1578 The "menu event" type has been renamed to "misc-user event", and
|
|
|
1579 encompasses scrollbar events as well as menu events. We are planning
|
|
|
1580 on making it also encompass toolbar events in a future release.
|
|
|
1581
|
|
|
1582 New functions are provided for determining whether an particular
|
|
|
1583 sections of a frame: `event-over-border-p', `event-over-glyph-p',
|
|
|
1584 `event-over-modeline-p', `event-over-text-area-p', and
|
|
|
1585 `event-over-toolbar-p'. The old, kludgey methods of checking the
|
|
|
1586 window-height, the internal-border-width, etc. are unreliable and
|
|
|
1587 should not be used.
|
|
|
1588
|
|
|
1589 New functions `event-window-x-pixel' and `event-window-y-pixel' are
|
|
|
1590 provided for determining where in a particular window an event
|
|
|
1591 happened.
|
|
|
1592
|
|
|
1593 New functions `event-glyph-x-pixel' and `event-glyph-y-pixel' are
|
|
|
1594 provided for determining where in a particular glyph an event
|
|
|
1595 happened.
|
|
|
1596
|
|
|
1597 New function `event-closest-point', which returns the closest buffer
|
|
|
1598 position to the event even if the event did not occur over any text.
|
|
|
1599
|
|
|
1600 New variable `unread-command-events', superseding the older
|
|
|
1601 `unread-command-event'.
|
|
|
1602
|
|
|
1603 Many event-loop bugs have been fixed.
|
|
|
1604
|
|
|
1605
|
|
|
1606
|
|
|
1607 *** Extents
|
|
|
1608 -----------
|
|
|
1609
|
|
|
1610 The extent code has been largely rewritten. It should be faster and
|
|
|
1611 more reliable.
|
|
|
1612
|
|
|
1613 The text-property implementation has been greatly improved.
|
|
|
1614
|
|
|
1615 Some new extent primitives are provided to return the position of the
|
|
|
1616 next or previous property change in a buffer.
|
|
|
1617
|
|
|
1618 Extents can now have a parent specified; then all of its properties
|
|
|
1619 (except for the buffer it's in and its position in that buffer) come
|
|
|
1620 from that extent. Hierarchies of such extents can be created.
|
|
|
1621
|
|
|
1622 Extents now have a `detachable' property that controls what happens
|
|
|
1623 (they either get detached or shrink down to zero-length) when their
|
|
|
1624 text is deleted. Previously, such extents would always be detached.
|
|
|
1625
|
|
|
1626 The `invisible' property on extents now works.
|
|
|
1627
|
|
|
1628 `map-extents' has three additional parameters that provide more
|
|
|
1629 control over which extents are mapped.
|
|
|
1630
|
|
|
1631 `map-extents' deals better with changes made to extents in the
|
|
|
1632 buffer being mapped over.
|
|
|
1633
|
|
|
1634 A new function `mapcar-extents' (an alternative to `map-extents') has
|
|
|
1635 been provided and should be easier to use than `map-extents'.
|
|
|
1636
|
|
|
1637
|
|
|
1638
|
|
|
1639 *** Faces
|
|
|
1640 ---------
|
|
|
1641
|
|
|
1642 Faces can now be buffer-local, window-local, and device-local as well
|
|
|
1643 as frame-local, and can be further restricted to a particular device
|
|
|
1644 type or class. The way in which faces can be controlled is now based
|
|
|
1645 on the general and powerful specifier mechanism; see above.
|
|
|
1646
|
|
|
1647 The new function `set-face-property' generalizes `set-face-font',
|
|
|
1648 `set-face-foreground', etc. and takes many new optional arguments, in
|
|
|
1649 accordance with the new specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
1650
|
|
|
1651 The new functions `face-property' and `face-property-instance'
|
|
|
1652 generalize `face-font', `face-foreground', etc. and take many new
|
|
|
1653 optional arguments, in accordance with the new specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
1654 (`face-property' returns the value, if any, that was specified for a
|
|
|
1655 particular locale, and `face-property-instance' returns the actual
|
|
|
1656 value that will be used for display. See the section on specifiers.)
|
|
|
1657
|
|
|
1658 The functions `face-font', `face-foreground', `face-background',
|
|
|
1659 `set-face-font', `set-face-foreground', `set-face-background',
|
|
|
1660 etc. are now convenience functions, trivially implemented using
|
|
|
1661 `face-property' and `set-face-property' and take new optioanl
|
|
|
1662 arguments in accordance with those functions. New convenience
|
|
|
1663 functions `face-font-instance', `face-foreground-instance',
|
|
|
1664 `face-background-instance', etc. are provided and are trivially
|
|
|
1665 implemented using `face-property-instance'.
|
|
|
1666
|
|
|
1667 Inheritance of face properties can now be specified. Each individual
|
|
|
1668 face property can inherit differently from other properties, or not
|
|
|
1669 inherit at all.
|
|
|
1670
|
|
|
1671 You can set user-defined properties on faces using
|
|
|
1672 `set-face-property'.
|
|
|
1673
|
|
|
1674 You can create "temporary" faces, which are faces that disappear
|
|
|
1675 when they are no longer in use. This is as opposed to normal
|
|
|
1676 faces, which stay around forever.
|
|
|
1677
|
|
|
1678 The function `make-face' takes a new optional argument specifying
|
|
|
1679 whether a face should be permanent or temporary, and returns the
|
|
|
1680 actual face object rather than the face symbol, as in previous
|
|
|
1681 versions of XEmacs.
|
|
|
1682
|
|
|
1683 The function `face-list' takes a new optional argument specifying
|
|
|
1684 whether permanent, temporary, or both kinds of faces should be
|
|
|
1685 returned.
|
|
|
1686
|
|
|
1687 Faces have new TTY-specific properties: `highlight', `reverse',
|
|
|
1688 `alternate', `blinking', and `dim'.
|
|
|
1689
|
|
|
1690 Redisplay is smarter about dealing with face changes: changes to a
|
|
|
1691 particular face no longer cause all frames to be cleared and
|
|
|
1692 redisplayed.
|
|
|
1693
|
|
|
1694 The Edit-Faces package is provided for interactively changing faces.
|
|
|
1695 A menu item on the options menu is provided for this.
|
|
|
1696
|
|
|
1697 New functions are provided for retrieving the ascent, descent, height,
|
|
|
1698 and width of a character in a particular face.
|
|
|
1699
|
|
|
1700
|
|
|
1701
|
|
|
1702 *** Fonts, Colors
|
|
|
1703 -----------------
|
|
|
1704
|
|
70
|
1705 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The old "font" and "pixel" objects are gone.
|
|
0
|
1706 In place are new objects "font specifier", "font instance", "color
|
|
|
1707 specifier", and "color instance". Functions `font-name', `pixel-name'
|
|
|
1708 (an obsolete alias for `color-name'), etc. are now convenience
|
|
|
1709 functions for working with font and color specifiers. Old code that
|
|
|
1710 is not too sophisticated about working with font and pixel objects may
|
|
|
1711 still work, though. (For example, the idiom `(font-name (face-font
|
|
|
1712 'default))' still works.)
|
|
|
1713
|
|
|
1714 You can now extract the RGB components of a color-instance object
|
|
|
1715 (similar to the old pixel object) with the function
|
|
|
1716 `color-instance-rgb-components'. There is also a convenience function
|
|
|
1717 `color-rgb-components' for working with color specifiers.
|
|
|
1718
|
|
|
1719 If there are no more colors available in the colormap, the nearest
|
|
|
1720 existing color will be used when allocating a new color.
|
|
|
1721
|
|
|
1722
|
|
|
1723
|
|
|
1724 *** Frames
|
|
|
1725 ----------
|
|
|
1726
|
|
|
1727 What used to be called "screens" are now called "frames", for clarity
|
|
|
1728 and consistency with GNU Emacs. Aliases are provided for all the old
|
|
|
1729 screen functions and variables, to avoid introducing a huge E-Lisp
|
|
|
1730 incompatibility.
|
|
|
1731
|
|
|
1732 The frame code has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.28, providing
|
|
|
1733 improved functionality for many functions.
|
|
|
1734
|
|
|
1735
|
|
|
1736
|
|
|
1737 *** Glyphs, Images, and Pixmaps
|
|
|
1738 -------------------------------
|
|
|
1739
|
|
|
1740 Glyphs (used in various places, i.e. as begin-glyphs and end-glyphs
|
|
|
1741 attached to extents and appearing in a buffer or in marginal
|
|
|
1742 annotations; as the truncator and continuor glyphs marking line wrap
|
|
|
1743 or truncation; as an overlay at the beginning of a line; as the
|
|
|
1744 displayable element in a toolbar button; etc.) can now be
|
|
|
1745 buffer-local, window-local, frame-local, and device-local, and can be
|
|
|
1746 further restricted to a particular device type or class. The way in
|
|
|
1747 which faces can be controlled is now based on the general and powerful
|
|
|
1748 specifier mechanism; see above.
|
|
|
1749
|
|
70
|
1750 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The glyph and pixmap API has been completely
|
|
0
|
1751 overhauled. A new Lisp object "glyph" is provided and should be used
|
|
|
1752 where the old "pixmap" object would have been used. The pixmap object
|
|
|
1753 exists no longer. There are also new Lisp objects "image specifier"
|
|
|
1754 and "image instance" (an image-instance is the closest equivalent to
|
|
|
1755 what a pixmap object was). More work on glyphs and images is slated
|
|
|
1756 for 19.13. The glyph and image docs in the Lisp Reference Manual are
|
|
|
1757 incomplete and will be finished in 19.13.
|
|
|
1758
|
|
|
1759 The new function `set-glyph-property' allows setting of all the
|
|
|
1760 glyph properties (`baseline', `contrib-p', etc.). Convenience
|
|
|
1761 functions for particular properties are also provided, just like
|
|
|
1762 for faces.
|
|
|
1763
|
|
|
1764 You can set user-defined properties on glyphs using the new function
|
|
|
1765 `set-glyph-property'.
|
|
|
1766
|
|
|
1767 When displaying pixmaps, existing, closest-matching colors will be
|
|
|
1768 used if the colormap is full.
|
|
|
1769
|
|
|
1770 If the compface library is compiled into XEmacs, there is built-in
|
|
|
1771 support for displaying X-Face bitmaps. (These are typically small
|
|
|
1772 pictures of people's faces, included in a mail message through the
|
|
|
1773 X-Face: header.) VM and highlight-headers will automatically use the
|
|
|
1774 built-in X-Face support if it is available.
|
|
|
1775
|
|
|
1776 Annotations in the right margin (as well as the left margin) are now
|
|
|
1777 implemented. The left and right margin width functions have been
|
|
|
1778 superseded by the specifier variables `left-margin-width' and
|
|
|
1779 `right-margin-width', allowing much more flexible control through the
|
|
|
1780 specifier mechanism.
|
|
|
1781
|
|
70
|
1782 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The variable `use-left-overflow',
|
|
0
|
1783 for controlling annotations in the left margin, is now a specifier
|
|
|
1784 variable instead of a buffer-local variable. (There is also a new
|
|
|
1785 variable `use-right-overflow', that is complementary.)
|
|
|
1786
|
|
|
1787
|
|
|
1788
|
|
|
1789 *** Hashing
|
|
|
1790 -----------
|
|
|
1791
|
|
|
1792 Two new types of weak hashtables can be created: key-weak and
|
|
|
1793 value-weak. In a key-weak hashtable, an entry remains around
|
|
|
1794 if its key is referenced elsewhere, regardless of whether this
|
|
|
1795 is also the case for the value. Value-weak hashtables are
|
|
|
1796 complementary. (This is as opposed to the traditional weak
|
|
|
1797 hashtables, where an entry remains around only if both the
|
|
|
1798 key and value are referenced elsewhere.) New functions
|
|
|
1799 `make-key-weak-hashtable' and `make-value-weak-hashtable'
|
|
|
1800 are provided for creating these hashtables.
|
|
|
1801
|
|
|
1802 The new function `md5' is provided for performing an MD5
|
|
|
1803 hash of an object. MD5 is a secure message digest algorithm
|
|
|
1804 developed by RSA, inc.
|
|
|
1805
|
|
|
1806
|
|
|
1807
|
|
|
1808 *** Keymaps
|
|
|
1809 -----------
|
|
|
1810
|
|
116
|
1811 The GNU Emacs concept of `function-key-map' is now partially
|
|
0
|
1812 implemented. This allows conversion of function-key escape sequences
|
|
|
1813 such as `ESC [ 1 1 ~' into an equivalent human-readable keysym such as
|
|
|
1814 `F1'. This work will be completed in 19.14. The function-key map is
|
|
|
1815 device-local and controllable through the functions
|
|
|
1816 `device-function-key-map' and `set-device-function-key-map'.
|
|
|
1817
|
|
|
1818 `where-is-internal' now correctly searches minor-mode keymaps,
|
|
|
1819 extent-local keymaps, etc. As a side effect of this, menu items will
|
|
|
1820 now correctly show the keyboard equivalent for commands that are
|
|
|
1821 available through a minor-mode keymap, extent-local keymap, etc.
|
|
|
1822
|
|
70
|
1823 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The modifier key "Symbol" has
|
|
0
|
1824 been renamed to "Alt", for compatibility with the rest of the world.
|
|
|
1825 Keep in mind that on many keyboards, the key labelled "Alt" actually
|
|
|
1826 generates the "Meta" modifier. (On Sun keyboards, however, the key
|
|
|
1827 labelled "Alt" does indeed generate the "Alt" modifier, and the key
|
|
|
1828 labelled with a diamond generates the "Meta" modifier.)
|
|
|
1829
|
|
|
1830
|
|
|
1831
|
|
|
1832 *** Mouse, Active Region
|
|
|
1833 ------------------------
|
|
|
1834
|
|
|
1835 The mouse internals in mouse.el have been rewritten. Hooks have been
|
|
|
1836 provided for easier customization of mouse behavior. For example, you
|
|
|
1837 can now easily specify an action to be invoked on single-click
|
|
|
1838 (i.e. down-up without appreciable motion), double-click, drag-up, etc.
|
|
|
1839
|
|
116
|
1840 Some code from GNU Emacs has been ported over, generalizing some of
|
|
0
|
1841 the X-specific mouse stuff.
|
|
|
1842
|
|
70
|
1843 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The function `set-mouse-position' accepts
|
|
0
|
1844 a window instead of a frame.
|
|
|
1845
|
|
|
1846 New function `mouse-position' that obsoletes and is more powerful than
|
|
|
1847 `read-mouse-position'.
|
|
|
1848
|
|
|
1849 New functions `mouse-pixel-positon' and `set-mouse-pixel-position' for
|
|
|
1850 working with pixels instead of characters.
|
|
|
1851
|
|
|
1852 The active (Zmacs) region is now highlighted using the `zmacs-region-face'
|
|
|
1853 instead of the `primary-selection-face'; this generalizes what used
|
|
|
1854 to be X-specific.
|
|
|
1855
|
|
|
1856 New functions `region-active-p', `region-exists-p', and `activate-region'
|
|
|
1857 provide a uniform API for dealing with the region irrespective of
|
|
|
1858 whether the variable `zmacs-regions' is set.
|
|
|
1859
|
|
|
1860 XEmacs is now a better X citizen with respect to the primary selection:
|
|
|
1861 it does not stomp on the primary selection quite so much. This makes
|
|
|
1862 things more manageable if you set `zmacs-regions' to nil.
|
|
|
1863
|
|
|
1864
|
|
|
1865
|
|
|
1866 *** Processes
|
|
|
1867 -------------
|
|
|
1868
|
|
|
1869 Various process race conditions and bugs have been fixed. Problems
|
|
|
1870 with process termination not getting noticed until much later (if at
|
|
|
1871 all) should be gone now, as well as problems with zombie processes
|
|
|
1872 under some systems.
|
|
|
1873
|
|
|
1874 SOCKS support is now included. SOCKS is a package that allows hosts
|
|
|
1875 behind a firewall to gain full access to the Internet without
|
|
|
1876 requiring direct IP reachability.
|
|
|
1877
|
|
|
1878
|
|
|
1879
|
|
|
1880 *** Windows
|
|
|
1881 -----------
|
|
|
1882
|
|
|
1883 Windows 95 is still not out yet.
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1884
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1885 ** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **: The functions `locate-window-from-coordinates'
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0
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1886 and `window-edges' have been eliminated. It no longer makes sense to
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1887 work with windows in terms of character positions, because windows can
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1888 (and often do) have many differently-sized fonts in them, because the
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1889 3-D modeline is not exactly one line high, etc.
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1890
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1891 The new functions `window-pixel-edges', `window-highest-p',
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1892 `window-lowest-p', `frame-highest-window', and `frame-lowest-window'
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1893 are provided as substitutes for the above-mentioned, deleted
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1894 functions.
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1895
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1896 The function `window-end' now takes an optional GUARANTEE argument
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1897 that will ensure that the value is actually correct as of the next
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1898 redisplay.
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1899
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1900 The window code has been merged with GNU Emacs 19.28, providing
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1901 improved functionality for many functions.
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1902
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1903
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1904
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1905 *** System-Specific Information
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1906 -------------------------------
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1907
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1908 Georg Nikodym's dynodump package is provided, for proper unexec()ing
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1909 on Solaris systems. Executables built on Solaris 2.3 can now run on
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1910 Solaris 2.4 without crashing; similarly with executables built on one
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1911 type of Sun machine and run on another.
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1912
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1913 AIX 4.x is supported.
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1914
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1915 The NeXTstep operating system is supported in TTY mode (this is still
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1916 in beta). There are plans to port XEmacs to the NeXTstep window
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1917 system, but it may be awhile before this is complete.
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1918
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1919 Problems with the `round' function causing arithmetic errors on HPUX 9
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1920 have been fixed.
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1921
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1922 You can now build XEmacs as an ELF executable on Linux systems that
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1923 support ELF.
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1924
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1925 Various other new system configurations are supported.
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1926
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1927
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1928
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1929 *** Packages
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1930 ------------
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1931
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1932 Most packages have been updated to the latest available versions.
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1933
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1934
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1935 Some of the new Emacs Lisp packages ---
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1936
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1937 Hyperbole: the everyday information manager. Provides a Rolodex,
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1938 allows links to be embedded in text, etc.
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1939
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1940 OOBR: a sophisticated class browser for object-oriented languages.
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1941
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1942 viper: a better VI emulator that allows Emacs and VI features
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1943 to coexist happily.
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1944
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1945 hm--html-menus: a sophisticated package for editing HTML code,
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1946 from Heiko Muenkel.
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1947
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1948 ksh-mode.el: for editing shell scripts.
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1949
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1950 lazy-lock.el: a lazy, on-the-fly fontifier.
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1951
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1952 paren.el: an improved matching paren highlighter
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1956 Major changes to existing packages --
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1957
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1958 VM: has a toolbar, many other nice features.
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1959
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1960 w3: has a toolbar, many other nice features.
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1961
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1962 ediff: provides three-way merging, has a better user interface.
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1963
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1964 info: has a toolbar.
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1965
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1966 highlight-headers.el: now highlights URL's and makes them active so
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1967 that when clicked either Netscape 1.1 is called
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1968 or Emacs W3 is run.
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1969
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1970
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1971 ** Major Differences Between 19.10 and 19.11
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1972 ============================================
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70
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1973
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0
|
1974 The name has changed from "Lucid Emacs" to "XEmacs". Along with this is a
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1975 new canonical ftp site: cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/xemacs.
|
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1976
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1977 XEmacs now has its very own World Wide Web page! It contains a
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1978 complete list of the FTP distribution sites, the most recent FAQ,
|
|
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1979 pointers to Emacs Lisp packages not included with the distribution, and
|
|
|
1980 other useful stuff. Check it out at http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/.
|
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1981
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|
1982 A preliminary New Users Guide.
|
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1983
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|
1984 cc-mode.el now provides the default C, C++ and Objective-C modes.
|
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1985
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|
1986 The primary goal of this release is stability. Very few new features have
|
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|
1987 been introduced but lots of bugs have been fixed. Many of the Emacs Lisp
|
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|
1988 packages have been updated.
|
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1989
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|
1990 Some of the new Emacs Lisp packages ---
|
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1991
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1992 tcl-mode.el: major mode for editing TCL code
|
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|
1993
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1994 fast-lock.el: saves and restores font-lock highlighting, greatly
|
|
|
1995 reducing the time necessary for loading a font-lock'ed
|
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1996 file
|
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1997
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1998 ps-print.el: prints buffers to Postscript printers preserving the
|
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1999 buffer's bold and italic text attributes
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2000
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|
2001 toolbar.el: provides a "fake" toolbar for use with XEmacs (an
|
|
|
2002 integrated one will be included with 19.12)
|
|
|
2003
|
|
|
2004
|
|
|
2005 ** Major Differences Between 19.9 and 19.10
|
|
|
2006 ===========================================
|
|
|
2007
|
|
|
2008 The GNU `configure' system is now used to build lemacs.
|
|
|
2009
|
|
|
2010 The Emacs Manual and Emacs Lisp Reference Manual now document version 19.10.
|
|
|
2011 If you notice any errors, please let us know.
|
|
|
2012
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|
|
2013 When pixmaps are displayed in a buffer, they contribute to the line height -
|
|
|
2014 that is, if the glyph is taller than the rest of the text on the line, the
|
|
|
2015 line will be as tall as necessary to display the glyph.
|
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017 In addition to using arbitrary sound files as emacs beeps, one can control
|
|
|
2018 the pitch and duration of the standard X beep, on X servers which allow that
|
|
|
2019 (Note: most don't.)
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2021 There is support for playing sounds on systems with NetAudio servers.
|
|
|
2022
|
|
|
2023 Minor modes may have mode-specific key bindings; keymaps may have an arbitrary
|
|
|
2024 number of parent maps.
|
|
|
2025
|
|
|
2026 Menus can have toggle and radio buttons in them.
|
|
|
2027
|
|
|
2028 There is a font selection menu.
|
|
|
2029
|
|
|
2030 Some default key bindings have changed to match FSF19; the new bindings are
|
|
|
2031
|
|
|
2032 Screen-related commands:
|
|
|
2033 C-x 5 2 make-screen
|
|
|
2034 C-x 5 0 delete-screen
|
|
|
2035 C-x 5 b switch-to-buffer-other-screen
|
|
|
2036 C-x 5 f find-file-other-screen
|
|
|
2037 C-x 5 C-f find-file-other-screen
|
|
|
2038 C-x 5 m mail-other-screen
|
|
|
2039 C-x 5 o other-screen
|
|
|
2040 C-x 5 r find-file-read-only-other-screen
|
|
|
2041 Abbrev-related commands:
|
|
|
2042 C-x a l add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
2043 C-x a C-a add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
2044 C-x a g add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
2045 C-x a + add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
2046 C-x a i g inverse-add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
2047 C-x a i l inverse-add-mode-abbrev
|
|
|
2048 C-x a - inverse-add-global-abbrev
|
|
|
2049 C-x a e expand-abbrev
|
|
|
2050 C-x a ' expand-abbrev
|
|
|
2051 Register-related commands:
|
|
|
2052 C-x r C-SPC point-to-register
|
|
|
2053 C-x r SPC point-to-register
|
|
|
2054 C-x r j jump-to-register
|
|
|
2055 C-x r s copy-to-register
|
|
|
2056 C-x r x copy-to-register
|
|
|
2057 C-x r i insert-register
|
|
|
2058 C-x r g insert-register
|
|
|
2059 C-x r r copy-rectangle-to-register
|
|
|
2060 C-x r c clear-rectangle
|
|
|
2061 C-x r k kill-rectangle
|
|
|
2062 C-x r y yank-rectangle
|
|
|
2063 C-x r o open-rectangle
|
|
|
2064 C-x r t string-rectangle
|
|
|
2065 C-x r w window-configuration-to-register
|
|
|
2066 Narrowing-related commands:
|
|
|
2067 C-x n n narrow-to-region
|
|
|
2068 C-x n w widen
|
|
|
2069 Other changes:
|
|
|
2070 C-x 3 split-window-horizontally (was undefined)
|
|
|
2071 C-x - shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
|
|
|
2072 C-x + balance-windows
|
|
|
2073
|
|
70
|
2074 The variable allow-deletion-of-last-visible-screen has been removed, since
|
|
0
|
2075 it was widely hated. You can now always delete the last visible screen if
|
|
|
2076 there are other iconified screens in existence.
|
|
|
2077
|
|
|
2078 ToolTalk support is provided.
|
|
|
2079
|
|
|
2080 An Emacs screen can be placed within an "external client widget" managed
|
|
|
2081 by another application. This allows an application to use an Emacs screen
|
|
|
2082 as its text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided
|
|
|
2083 with Motif or Athena.
|
|
|
2084
|
|
|
2085 Additional compatibility with Epoch is provided (though this is not yet
|
|
|
2086 complete.)
|
|
|
2087
|
|
|
2088
|
|
|
2089 ** Major Differences Between 19.8 and 19.9
|
|
|
2090 ==========================================
|
|
|
2091
|
|
|
2092 Scrollbars! If you have Motif, these are real Motif scrollbars; otherwise,
|
|
|
2093 Athena scrollbars are used. They obey all the usual resources of their
|
|
|
2094 respective toolkits.
|
|
|
2095
|
|
2
|
2096 There is now an implementation of dialog boxes based on the Athena
|
|
0
|
2097 widgets, as well as the existing Motif implementation.
|
|
|
2098
|
|
70
|
2099 This release works with Motif 1.2 as well as 1.1. If you link with Motif,
|
|
0
|
2100 you do not also need to link with Athena.
|
|
|
2101
|
|
|
2102 If you compile lwlib with both USE_MOTIF and USE_LUCID defined (which is the
|
|
|
2103 recommended configuration) then the Lucid menus will draw text using the Motif
|
|
|
2104 string-drawing library, instead of the Xlib one. The reason for this is that
|
|
|
2105 one can take advantage of the XmString facilities for including non-Latin1
|
|
|
2106 characters in resource specifications. However, this is a user-visible change
|
|
70
|
2107 in that, in this configuration, the menubar will use the "*fontList" resource
|
|
0
|
2108 in preference to the "*font" resource, if it is set.
|
|
|
2109
|
|
|
2110 It's possible to make extents which are copied/pasted by kill and undo.
|
|
|
2111 There is an implementation of FSF19-style text properties based on this.
|
|
|
2112
|
|
|
2113 There is a new variable, minibuffer-max-depth, which is intended to circumvent
|
|
|
2114 a common source of confusion among new Emacs users. Since, under a window
|
|
|
2115 system, it's easy to jump out of the minibuffer (by doing M-x, then getting
|
|
|
2116 distracted, and clicking elsewhere) many, many novice users have had the
|
|
|
2117 problem of having multiple minibuffers build up, even to the point of
|
|
|
2118 exhausting the lisp stack. So the default behavior is to disallow the
|
|
|
2119 minibuffer to ever be reinvoked while active; if you attempt to do so, you
|
|
|
2120 will be prompted about it.
|
|
|
2121
|
|
|
2122 There is a new variable, teach-extended-commands-p, which if set, will cause
|
|
|
2123 `M-x' to remind you of any key bindings of the command you just invoked the
|
|
|
2124 "long way."
|
|
|
2125
|
|
|
2126 There are menus in Dired, Tar, Comint, Compile, and Grep modes.
|
|
|
2127
|
|
|
2128 There is a menu of window management commands on the right mouse button over
|
|
|
2129 the modelines.
|
|
|
2130
|
|
70
|
2131 Popup menus now have titles at the top; this is controlled by the new
|
|
0
|
2132 variable `popup-menu-titles'.
|
|
|
2133
|
|
|
2134 The `Find' key on Sun keyboards will search for the next (or previous)
|
|
|
2135 occurrence of the selected text, as in OpenWindows programs.
|
|
|
2136
|
|
|
2137 The `timer' package has been renamed to `itimer' to avoid a conflict with
|
|
|
2138 a different package called `timer'.
|
|
|
2139
|
|
|
2140 VM 5.40 is included.
|
|
|
2141
|
|
|
2142 W3, the emacs interface to the World Wide Web, is included.
|
|
|
2143
|
|
|
2144 Felix Lee's GNUS speedups have been installed, including his new version of
|
|
|
2145 nntp.el which makes GNUS efficiently utilize the NNTP XOVER command if
|
|
70
|
2146 available (which is much faster.)
|
|
0
|
2147
|
|
|
2148 GNUS should also be much friendlier to new users: it starts up much faster,
|
|
|
2149 and doesn't (necessarily) subscribe you to every single newsgroup.
|
|
|
2150
|
|
|
2151 The byte-compiler issues a new class of warnings: variables which are
|
|
|
2152 bound but not used. This is merely an advisory, and does not mean the
|
|
|
2153 code is incorrect; you can disable these warnings in the usual way with
|
|
|
2154 the `byte-compiler-options' macro.
|
|
|
2155
|
|
|
2156 the `start-open' and `end-open' extent properties, for specifying whether
|
|
|
2157 characters inserted exactly at a boundary of an extent should go into the
|
|
|
2158 extent or out of it, now work correctly.
|
|
|
2159
|
|
|
2160 The `extent-data' slot has been generalized/replaced with a property list,
|
|
|
2161 so it's easier to attach arbitrary data to extent objects.
|
|
|
2162
|
|
|
2163 The `event-modifiers' and `event-modifier-bits' functions work on motion
|
|
|
2164 events as well as other mouse and keyboard events.
|
|
|
2165
|
|
|
2166 Forms-mode uses fonts and read-only regions.
|
|
|
2167
|
|
|
2168 The behavior of the -geometry command line option should be correct now.
|
|
|
2169
|
|
|
2170 The `iconic' screen parameter works when passed to x-create-screen.
|
|
|
2171
|
|
|
2172 The user's manual now documents Lucid Emacs 19.9.
|
|
|
2173
|
|
|
2174 The relocating buffer allocator is turned on by default; this means that when
|
|
70
|
2175 buffers are killed, their storage will be returned to the operating system,
|
|
0
|
2176 and the size of the emacs process will shrink.
|
|
|
2177
|
|
|
2178 CAVEAT: code which contains calls to certain `face' accessor functions will
|
|
|
2179 need to be recompiled by version 19.9 before it will work. The functions
|
|
|
2180 whose callers must be recompiled are: face-font, face-foreground,
|
|
|
2181 face-background, face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The symptom
|
|
|
2182 of this problem is the error "Wrong type argument, arrayp, #<face ... >".
|
|
|
2183 The .elc files generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but
|
|
|
2184 older .elc files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
|
|
|
2185
|
|
|
2186 Work In Progress:
|
|
|
2187
|
|
|
2188 - We have been in the process of internationalizing Lucid Emacs. This code is
|
|
|
2189 ***not*** ready for general use yet. However, the code is included (and
|
|
|
2190 turned off by default) in this release.
|
|
|
2191
|
|
|
2192 - If you define I18N2 at compile-time, then sorting/collation will be done
|
|
|
2193 according to the locale returned by setlocale().
|
|
|
2194
|
|
|
2195 - If you define I18N3 at compile-time, then all messages printed by lemacs
|
|
|
2196 will be filtered through the gettext() library routine, to enable the use
|
|
|
2197 of locale-specific translation catalogues. The current implementation of
|
|
70
|
2198 this is quite dependent on Solaris 2, and has a very large impact on
|
|
0
|
2199 existing code, therefore we are going to be making major changes soon.
|
|
|
2200 (You'll notice calls to `gettext' and `GETTEXT' scattered around much of
|
|
|
2201 the lisp and C code; ignore it, this will be going away.)
|
|
|
2202
|
|
|
2203 - If you define I18N4 at compile-time, then lemacs will internally use a
|
|
|
2204 wide representation of characters, enabling the use of large character
|
|
70
|
2205 sets such as Kanji. This code is very OS dependent: it requires X11R5,
|
|
0
|
2206 and several OS-supplied library routines for reading and writing wide
|
|
|
2207 characters (getwc(), putwc(), and a few others.) Performance is also a
|
|
|
2208 problem. This code is also scheduled for a major overhaul, with the
|
|
70
|
2209 intent of improving performance and portability.
|
|
0
|
2210
|
|
|
2211 Our eventual goal is to merge with MULE, or at least provide the same base
|
|
70
|
2212 level of functionality. If you would like to help out with this, let us
|
|
0
|
2213 know.
|
|
|
2214
|
|
70
|
2215 - Other work-in-progress includes Motif drag-and-drop support, ToolTalk
|
|
|
2216 support, and support for embedding an Emacs widget inside another
|
|
0
|
2217 application (where it can function as that other application's text-entry
|
|
|
2218 area). This code has not been extensively tested, and may (or may not)
|
|
70
|
2219 have portability problems, but it's there for the adventurous. Comments,
|
|
0
|
2220 suggestions, bug reports, and especially fixes are welcome. But have no
|
|
|
2221 expectations that this experimental code will work at all.
|
|
|
2222
|
|
|
2223
|
|
|
2224 ** Major Differences Between 19.6 and 19.8
|
|
|
2225 ==========================================
|
|
|
2226
|
|
|
2227 There were almost no differences between versions 19.6 and 19.7; version 19.7
|
|
|
2228 was a bug-fix release that was distributed with Energize 2.1.
|
|
|
2229
|
|
|
2230 Lucid Emacs 19.8 represents the first stage of the Lucid Emacs/Epoch merger.
|
|
|
2231 The redisplay engine now in lemacs is an improved descendant of the Epoch
|
|
|
2232 redisplay. As a result, many bugs have been eliminated, and several disabled
|
|
|
2233 features have been re-enabled. Notably:
|
|
|
2234
|
|
|
2235 Selective display (and outline-mode) work.
|
|
|
2236
|
|
|
2237 Horizontally split windows work.
|
|
|
2238
|
|
|
2239 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font displayed on that line;
|
|
|
2240 it is possible for a screen to display lines of differing heights. (Previously,
|
|
|
2241 the height of all lines was the height of the tallest font loaded.)
|
|
|
2242
|
|
|
2243 There is lisp code to scale fonts up and down, for example, to load the next-
|
|
|
2244 taller version of a font.
|
|
|
2245
|
|
|
2246 There is a new internal representation for lisp objects, giving emacs-lisp 28
|
|
|
2247 bit integers and a 28 bit address space, up from the previous maximum of 26.
|
|
|
2248 We expect eventually to increase this to 30 bit integers and a 32 bit address
|
|
|
2249 space, eliminating the need for DATA_SEG_BITS on some architectures. (On 64
|
|
|
2250 bit machines, add 32 to all of these numbers.)
|
|
|
2251
|
|
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2252 GC performance is improved.
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2253
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2254 Various X objects (fonts, colors, cursors, pixmaps) are accessible as first-
|
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2255 class lisp objects, with finalization.
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2256
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2257 An alternate interface to embedding images in the text is provided, called
|
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2258 "annotations." You may create an "annotation margin" which is whitespace at
|
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2259 the left side of the screen that contains only annotations, not buffer text.
|
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2260
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2261 When using XPM files, one can specify the values of logical color names to be
|
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2262 used when loading the files.
|
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2263
|
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|
2264 It is possible to resize windows by dragging their modelines up and down. More
|
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|
2265 generally, it is possible to add bindings for mouse gestures on the modelines.
|
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2266
|
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|
2267 There is support for playing sound files on HP machines.
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2268
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2269 ILISP version 5.5 is included.
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2270
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2271 The Common Lisp #' read syntax is supported (#' is to "function" as ' is to
|
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2272 "quote".)
|
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2273
|
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|
2274 The `active-p' slot of menu items is now evaluated, so one can put arbitrary
|
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|
2275 lisp code in a menu to decide whether that item should be selectable, rather
|
|
|
2276 than doing this with an `activate-menubar-hook'.
|
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2277
|
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|
2278 The X resource hierarchy has changed slightly, to be more consistent. It used
|
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|
2279 to be
|
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|
2280 argv[0] SCREEN-NAME pane screen
|
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|
2281 ApplicationShell EmacsShell Paned EmacsFrame
|
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2282
|
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|
2283 now it is
|
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2284
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|
2285 argv[0] shell pane SCREEN-NAME
|
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|
2286 ApplicationShell EmacsShell Paned EmacsFrame
|
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|
2287
|
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|
2288 The Lucid Emacs sources have been largely merged with FSF version 19; this
|
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|
2289 means that the lisp library contains the most recent releases of various
|
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|
2290 packages, and many new features of FSF 19 have been incorporated.
|
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2291
|
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|
2292 Because of this, the lemacs sources should also be substantially more portable.
|
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2293
|
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2294
|
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|
2295 ** Major Differences Between 19.4 and 19.6
|
|
|
2296 ==========================================
|
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|
2297
|
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|
2298 There were almost no differences between versions 19.4 and 19.5; we fixed
|
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|
2299 a few minor bugs and repacked 19.4 as 19.5 for a CD-ROM that we gave away
|
|
|
2300 as a trade show promotion.
|
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|
2301
|
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|
2302 The primary goal of the 19.6 release is stability, rather than improved
|
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2303 functionality, so there aren't many user-visible changes. The most notable
|
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|
2304 changes are:
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2305
|
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|
2306 - The -geometry command-line option now correctly overrides geometry
|
|
|
2307 specifications in the resource database.
|
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|
2308 - The `width' and `height' screen-parameters work.
|
|
|
2309 - Font-lock-mode considers the comment start and end characters to be
|
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|
2310 a part of the comment.
|
|
|
2311 - The lhilit package has been removed. Use font-lock-mode instead.
|
|
|
2312 - vm-isearch has been fixed to work with isearch-mode.
|
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|
2313 - new versions of ispell and calendar.
|
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|
2314 - sccs.el has menus.
|
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2315
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|
2316 Lots of bugs were fixed, including the problem that lemacs occasionally
|
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|
2317 grabbed the keyboard focus.
|
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2318
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|
2319 Also, as of Lucid Emacs 19.6 and Energize 2.0 (shipping now) it is possible
|
|
|
2320 to compile the public release of Lucid Emacs with support for Energize; so
|
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|
2321 now Energize users will be able to build their own Energize-aware versions
|
|
|
2322 of lemacs, and will be able to use newer versions of lemacs as they are
|
|
|
2323 released to the net. (Of course, this is not behavior covered by your
|
|
|
2324 Energize support contract; you do it at your own risk.)
|
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|
2325
|
|
|
2326 I have not incorporated all portability patches that I have been sent since
|
|
|
2327 19.4; I will try to get to them soon. However, if you need to make any
|
|
|
2328 changes to lemacs to get it to compile on your system, it would be quite
|
|
|
2329 helpful if you would send me context diffs (diff -c) against version 19.6.
|
|
|
2330
|
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2331
|
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|
2332 ** Major Differences Between 19.3 and 19.4
|
|
|
2333 ==========================================
|
|
|
2334
|
|
|
2335 Prototypes have been added for all functions. Emacs compiles in the strict
|
|
|
2336 ANSI modes of lcc and gcc, so portability should be vastly improved.
|
|
|
2337
|
|
70
|
2338 Many many many many core leaks have been plugged, especially in screen
|
|
0
|
2339 creation and deletion.
|
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|
2340
|
|
|
2341 The float support reworked to be more portable and ANSI conformant. This
|
|
70
|
2342 resulted in these new configuration parameters: HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC,
|
|
|
2343 HAVE_CBRT, HAVE_RINT, FLOAT_CHECK_ERRNO, FLOAT_CATCH_SIGILL,
|
|
0
|
2344 FLOAT_CHECK_DOMAIN. Let us know if you had to change the defaults on your
|
|
|
2345 architecture.
|
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2346
|
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70
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2347 The SunOS unexec has been rewritten, and now works with either static or
|
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0
|
2348 dynamic libraries, depending on whether -Bstatic or -Bdynamic were specified
|
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|
2349 at link-time.
|
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|
2350
|
|
|
2351 Small (character-sized) bitmaps can be mixed in with buffer text via the new
|
|
|
2352 functions set-extent-begin-glyph and set-extent-end-glyph. (This is actually
|
|
|
2353 a piece of functionality that Energize has been using for a while, but we've
|
|
|
2354 just gotten around to making it possible to use it without Energize. See how
|
|
|
2355 nice we are? Go buy our product.)
|
|
|
2356
|
|
|
2357 If compiled with Motif support, one can pop up dialog boxes from emacs lisp.
|
|
|
2358 We encourage someone to contribute Athena an version of this code; it
|
|
70
|
2359 shouldn't be much work.
|
|
0
|
2360
|
|
|
2361 If dialog boxes are available, then y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p use dialog boxes
|
|
70
|
2362 instead of the minibuffer if invoked as a result of a command that was
|
|
0
|
2363 executed from a menu instead of from the keyboard.
|
|
|
2364
|
|
|
2365 Multiple screen support works better; check out doc of get-screen-for-buffer.
|
|
|
2366
|
|
|
2367 The default binding of backspace is the same as delete. (C-h is still help.)
|
|
|
2368
|
|
70
|
2369 A middle click while the minibuffer is active does completion if you click on
|
|
0
|
2370 a highlighted completion, otherwise it executes the global binding of button2.
|
|
|
2371
|
|
|
2372 New versions of Barry Warsaw's c++-mode and syntax.c. Font-lock-mode works
|
|
|
2373 with C++ mode now.
|
|
|
2374
|
|
|
2375 The semantics of activate-menubar-hook has changed; the functions are called
|
|
|
2376 with no arguments now.
|
|
|
2377
|
|
|
2378 `truename' no longer hacks the automounter; use directory-abbrev-alist instead.
|
|
|
2379
|
|
|
2380 Most minibuffer handling has been reimplemented in emacs-lisp.
|
|
|
2381
|
|
|
2382 There is now a builtin minibuffer history mechanism which replaces gmhist.
|
|
|
2383
|
|
|
2384
|
|
|
2385 ** Major Differences Between 19.2 and 19.3
|
|
|
2386 ==========================================
|
|
|
2387
|
|
|
2388 The ISO characters have correct case and syntax tables now, so the word-motion
|
|
|
2389 and case-converting commands work sensibly on them.
|
|
|
2390
|
|
|
2391 If you set ctl-arrow to an integer, you can control exactly which characters
|
|
|
2392 are printable. (There will be a less crufty way to do this eventually.)
|
|
|
2393
|
|
|
2394 Menubars can now be buffer local; the function set-screen-menubar no longer
|
|
70
|
2395 exists. Look at GNUS and VM for examples of how to do this, or read
|
|
0
|
2396 menubar.el.
|
|
|
2397
|
|
|
2398 When emacs is reading from the minibuffer with completions, any completions
|
|
|
2399 which are visible on the screen will highlight when the mouse moves over them;
|
|
|
2400 clicking middle on a completion is the same as typing it at the minibuffer.
|
|
|
2401 Some implications of this: The *Completions* buffer is always mousable. If
|
|
|
2402 you're using the completion feature of find-tag, your source code will be
|
|
70
|
2403 mousable when you type M-. Dired buffers will be mousable as soon as you
|
|
0
|
2404 type ^X^F. And so on.
|
|
|
2405
|
|
|
2406 The old isearch code has been replaced with a descendant of Dan LaLiberte's
|
|
|
2407 excellent isearch-mode; it is more customizable, and generally less bogus.
|
|
|
2408 You can search for "composed" characters. There are new commands, too; see
|
|
|
2409 the doc for ^S, or the NEWS file.
|
|
|
2410
|
|
|
2411 A patched GNUS 3.14 is included.
|
|
|
2412
|
|
|
2413 The user's manual now documents Lucid Emacs 19.3.
|
|
|
2414
|
|
|
2415 A few more modes have mouse and menu support.
|
|
|
2416
|
|
|
2417 The startup code should be a little more robust, and give you more reasonable
|
|
|
2418 error messages when things aren't installed quite right (instead of the
|
|
|
2419 ubiquitous "cannot open DISPLAY"...)
|
|
|
2420
|
|
|
2421 Subdirectories of the lisp directory whose names begin with a hyphen or dot
|
|
|
2422 are not automatically added to the load-path, so you can use this to avoid
|
|
|
2423 accidentally inflicting experimental software on your users.
|
|
|
2424
|
|
|
2425 I've tried to incorporate all of the portability patches that were sent to
|
|
70
|
2426 me; I tried to solve some of the problems in different ways than the
|
|
0
|
2427 patches did, so let me know if I missed something.
|
|
|
2428
|
|
|
2429 Some systems will need to define NEED_STRDUP, NEED_REALPATH, HAVE_DREM, or
|
|
|
2430 HAVE_REMAINDER in config.h. Really this should be done in the appropriate
|
|
|
2431 s- or m- files, but I don't know which systems need these and which don't.
|
|
|
2432 If yours does, let me know which file it should be in.
|
|
|
2433
|
|
|
2434 Check out these new packages:
|
|
|
2435
|
|
|
2436 blink-paren.el: causes the matching parenthesis to flash on and off whenever
|
|
|
2437 the cursor is sitting on a paren-syntax character.
|
|
|
2438
|
|
|
2439 pending-del.el: Certain commands implicitly delete the highlighted region:
|
|
|
2440 Typing a character when there is a highlighted region replaces
|
|
|
2441 that region with the typed character.
|
|
|
2442
|
|
|
2443 font-lock.el: A code-highlighting package, driven off of syntax tables, so
|
|
70
|
2444 that it understands block comments, strings, etc. The
|
|
0
|
2445 insertion hook is used to fontify text as you type it in.
|
|
|
2446
|
|
|
2447 shell-font.el: Displays your shell-buffer prompt in boldface.
|
|
124
|
2448
|
|
|
2449 * The History of XEmacs
|
|
|
2450 =======================
|
|
|
2451
|
|
|
2452 This product is an extension of GNU Emacs, previously known to some as
|
|
|
2453 "Lucid Emacs" or "ERA". It was initially based on an early version of Emacs
|
|
|
2454 Version 19 from the Free Software Foundation and has since been kept
|
|
|
2455 up-to-date with recent versions of that product. It stems from a
|
|
|
2456 collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with SunSoft DevPro (a division of Sun
|
|
|
2457 Microsystems, Inc.; formerly called SunPro) and the University of Illinois.
|
|
|
2458
|
|
|
2459 NOTE: Lucid, Inc. is currently out of business but development on XEmacs
|
|
|
2460 continues strong. Recently, Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering have
|
|
|
2461 both contributed significantly to the development of XEmacs.
|
|
|
2462
|
|
|
2463
|
|
|
2464 * What's Different?
|
|
|
2465 ===================
|
|
|
2466
|
|
|
2467
|
|
|
2468 ** Differences between XEmacs and GNU Emacs 19
|
|
|
2469 ==================================================
|
|
|
2470 In XEmacs 20, characters are first-class objects. Characters can be
|
|
|
2471 converted to integers, but are not integers. FSF 19, XEmacs 19, and Mule
|
|
|
2472 represent them as integers.
|
|
|
2473
|
|
|
2474 In XEmacs, events are first-class objects. FSF 19 represents them as
|
|
|
2475 integers, which obscures the differences between a key gesture and the
|
|
|
2476 ancient ASCII code used to represent a particular overlapping subset of them.
|
|
|
2477
|
|
|
2478 In XEmacs, keymaps are first-class opaque objects. FSF 19 represents them as
|
|
|
2479 complicated combinations of association lists and vectors. If you use the
|
|
|
2480 advertised functional interface to manipulation of keymaps, the same code
|
|
|
2481 will work in XEmacs, Emacs 18, and GNU Emacs 19; if your code depends
|
|
|
2482 on the underlying implementation of keymaps, it will not.
|
|
|
2483
|
|
|
2484 XEmacs uses "extents" to represent all non-textual aspects of buffers;
|
|
|
2485 FSF 19 uses two distinct objects, "text properties" and "overlays",
|
|
|
2486 which divide up the functionality between them. Extents are a
|
|
|
2487 superset of the functionality of the two FSF data types. The full FSF
|
|
|
2488 19 interface to text properties is supported in XEmacs (with extents
|
|
|
2489 being the underlying representation).
|
|
|
2490
|
|
|
2491 Extents can be made to be copied into strings, and thus restored by kill
|
|
|
2492 and yank. Thus, one can specify this behavior on either "extents" or
|
|
|
2493 "text properties", whereas in FSF 19 text properties always have this
|
|
|
2494 behavior and overlays never do.
|
|
|
2495
|
|
|
2496 Many more packages are provided standard with XEmacs than with FSF 19.
|
|
|
2497
|
|
|
2498 Pixmaps of arbitrary size can be embedded in a buffer.
|
|
|
2499
|
|
|
2500 Variable width fonts work.
|
|
|
2501
|
|
|
2502 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font on that line, instead
|
|
|
2503 of all lines having the same height.
|
|
|
2504
|
|
|
2505 XEmacs uses the MIT "Xt" toolkit instead of raw Xlib calls, which
|
|
|
2506 makes it be a more well-behaved X citizen (and also improves
|
|
|
2507 portability). A result of this is that it is possible to include
|
|
|
2508 other Xt "Widgets" in the XEmacs window. Also, XEmacs understands the
|
|
|
2509 standard Xt command-line arguments.
|
|
|
2510
|
|
|
2511 XEmacs provides support for ToolTalk on systems that have it.
|
|
|
2512
|
|
|
2513 XEmacs can ask questions using popup dialog boxes. Any command executed from
|
|
|
2514 a menu will ask yes/no questions with dialog boxes, while commands executed
|
|
|
2515 via the keyboard will use the minibuffer.
|
|
|
2516
|
|
|
2517 XEmacs has a built-in toolbar. Four toolbars can actually be configured:
|
|
|
2518 top, bottom, left, and right toolbars.
|
|
|
2519
|
|
|
2520 XEmacs has vertical and horizontal scrollbars. Unlike in FSF 19 (which
|
|
|
2521 provides a primitive form of vertical scrollbar), these are true toolkit
|
|
|
2522 scrollbars. A look-alike Motif scrollbar is provided for those who
|
|
|
2523 don't have Motif. (Even for those who do, the look-alike may be preferable
|
|
|
2524 as it is faster.)
|
|
|
2525
|
|
|
2526 If you're running on a machine with audio hardware, you can specify sound
|
|
|
2527 files for XEmacs to play instead of the default X beep. See the documentation
|
|
|
2528 of the function load-sound-file and the variable sound-alist.
|
|
|
2529
|
|
|
2530 An XEmacs frame can be placed within an "external client widget" managed by
|
|
|
2531 another application. This allows an application to use an XEmacs frame as its
|
|
|
2532 text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided with Motif or
|
|
|
2533 Athena. XEmacs supports Motif applications, generic Xt (e.g. Athena)
|
|
|
2534 applications, and raw Xlib applications.
|
|
|
2535
|
|
|
2536 Here are some more specifics about the XEmacs implementation:
|
|
|
2537
|
|
|
2538 *** The Input Model
|
|
|
2539 -------------------
|
|
|
2540
|
|
|
2541 The fundamental unit of input is an "event" instead of a character. An
|
|
|
2542 event is a new data type that contains several pieces of information.
|
|
|
2543 There are several kinds of event, and corresponding accessor and utility
|
|
|
2544 functions. We tried to abstract them so that they would apply equally
|
|
|
2545 well to a number of window systems.
|
|
|
2546
|
|
|
2547 NOTE: All timestamps are measured as milliseconds since Emacs started.
|
|
|
2548
|
|
|
2549 key_press_event
|
|
|
2550 event_channel A token representing which keyboard generated it.
|
|
|
2551 For this kind of event, this is a console object.
|
|
|
2552 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2553 key What keysym this is; a character or a symbol.
|
|
|
2554 If it is a character, it will be a printing
|
|
|
2555 ASCII character.
|
|
|
2556 modifiers Bucky-bits on that key: control, meta, etc.
|
|
|
2557 For most keys, Shift is not a bit; that is implicit
|
|
|
2558 in the keyboard layout.
|
|
|
2559
|
|
|
2560 button_press_event
|
|
|
2561 button_release_event
|
|
|
2562 event_channel A token representing which mouse generated it.
|
|
|
2563 For this kind of event, this is a frame object.
|
|
|
2564 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2565 button What button went down or up.
|
|
|
2566 modifiers Bucky-bits on that button: shift, control, meta, etc.
|
|
|
2567 x, y Where it was at the button-state-change (in pixels).
|
|
|
2568
|
|
|
2569 pointer_motion_event
|
|
|
2570 event_channel A token representing which mouse generated it.
|
|
|
2571 For this kind of event, this is a frame object.
|
|
|
2572 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2573 x, y Where it was after it moved (in pixels).
|
|
|
2574 modifiers Bucky-bits down when the motion was detected.
|
|
|
2575 (Possibly not all window systems will provide this?)
|
|
|
2576
|
|
|
2577 process_event
|
|
|
2578 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2579 process the emacs "process" object in question
|
|
|
2580
|
|
|
2581 timeout_event
|
|
|
2582 timestamp Now (really, when the timeout was signaled)
|
|
|
2583 interval_id The ID returned when the associated call to
|
|
|
2584 add_timeout_cb() was made
|
|
|
2585 ------ the rest of the fields are filled in by Emacs -----
|
|
|
2586 id_number The Emacs timeout ID for this timeout (more
|
|
|
2587 than one timeout event can have the same value
|
|
|
2588 here, since Emacs timeouts, as opposed to
|
|
|
2589 add_timeout_cb() timeouts, can resignal
|
|
|
2590 themselves)
|
|
|
2591 function An elisp function to call when this timeout is
|
|
|
2592 processed.
|
|
|
2593 object The object passed to that function.
|
|
|
2594
|
|
|
2595 eval_event
|
|
|
2596 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2597 function An elisp function to call with this event object.
|
|
|
2598 object Anything.
|
|
|
2599 This kind of event is used internally; sometimes the
|
|
|
2600 window system interface would like to inform emacs of
|
|
|
2601 some user action (such as focusing on another frame)
|
|
|
2602 but needs that to happen synchronously with the other
|
|
|
2603 user input, like keypresses. This is useful when
|
|
|
2604 events are reported through callbacks rather
|
|
|
2605 than in the standard event stream.
|
|
|
2606
|
|
|
2607 misc_user_event
|
|
|
2608 timestamp When it happened
|
|
|
2609 function An elisp function to call with this event object.
|
|
|
2610 object Anything.
|
|
|
2611 This is similar to an eval_event, except that it is
|
|
|
2612 generated by user actions: selections in the
|
|
|
2613 menubar or scrollbar actions. It is a "command"
|
|
|
2614 event, like key and mouse presses (and unlike mouse
|
|
|
2615 motion, process output, and enter and leave window
|
|
|
2616 hooks). In many ways, eval_events are not the same
|
|
|
2617 as keypresses or misc_user_events.
|
|
|
2618
|
|
|
2619 magic_event
|
|
|
2620 No user-serviceable parts within. This is for things
|
|
|
2621 like KeymapNotify and ExposeRegion events and so on
|
|
|
2622 that emacs itself doesn't care about, but which it
|
|
|
2623 must do something with for proper interaction with
|
|
|
2624 the window system.
|
|
|
2625
|
|
|
2626 Magic_events are handled somewhat asynchronously, just
|
|
|
2627 like subprocess filters. However, occasionally a
|
|
|
2628 magic_event needs to be handled synchronously; in that
|
|
|
2629 case, the asynchronous handling of the magic_event will
|
|
|
2630 push an eval_event back onto the queue, which will be
|
|
|
2631 handled synchronously later. This is one of the
|
|
|
2632 reasons why eval_events exist; I'm not entirely happy
|
|
|
2633 with this aspect of this event model.
|
|
|
2634
|
|
|
2635
|
|
|
2636 The function `next-event' blocks and returns one of the above-described
|
|
|
2637 event objects. The function `dispatch-event' takes an event and processes
|
|
|
2638 it in the appropriate way.
|
|
|
2639
|
|
|
2640 For a process-event, dispatch-event calls the process's handler; for a
|
|
|
2641 mouse-motion event, the mouse-motion-handler hook is called, and so on.
|
|
|
2642 For magic-events, dispatch-event does window-system-dependent things,
|
|
|
2643 including calling some non-window-system-dependent hooks: map-frame-hook,
|
|
|
2644 unmap-frame-hook, mouse-enter-frame-hook, and mouse-leave-frame-hook.
|
|
|
2645
|
|
|
2646 The function `next-command-event' calls `next-event' until it gets a key or
|
|
|
2647 button from the user (that is, not a process, motion, timeout, or magic
|
|
|
2648 event). If it gets an event that is not a key or button, it calls
|
|
|
2649 `dispatch-event' on it immediately and reads another one. The
|
|
|
2650 next-command-event function could be implemented in Emacs Lisp, though it
|
|
|
2651 isn't. Generally one should call `next-command-event' instead of
|
|
|
2652 `next-event'.
|
|
|
2653
|
|
|
2654 read-char calls next-command-event; if it doesn't get an event that can be
|
|
|
2655 converted to an ASCII character, it signals an error. Otherwise it returns
|
|
|
2656 an integer.
|
|
|
2657
|
|
|
2658 The variable `last-command-char' always contains an integer, or nil (if the
|
|
|
2659 last read event has no ASCII equivalent, as when it is a mouse-click or a
|
|
|
2660 non-ASCII character chord.)
|
|
|
2661
|
|
|
2662 The new variable `last-command-event' holds an event object, that could be
|
|
|
2663 a non-ASCII character, a button click, a menu selection, etc.
|
|
|
2664
|
|
|
2665 The variable `unread-command-char' no longer exists, and has been replaced
|
|
|
2666 by `unread-command-events'. With the new event model, it is incorrect for
|
|
|
2667 code to do (setq unread-command-char (read-char)), because all user-input
|
|
|
2668 can't be represented as ASCII characters. *** This is an incompatible
|
|
|
2669 change. Code which sets `unread-command-char' must be updated to use the
|
|
|
2670 combination of `next-command-event' and `unread-command-events' instead.
|
|
|
2671
|
|
|
2672 The functions `this-command-keys' and `recent-keys' return a vector of
|
|
|
2673 event objects, instead of a string of ASCII characters. *** This also
|
|
|
2674 is an incompatible change.
|
|
|
2675
|
|
|
2676 Almost nothing happens at interrupt level; the SIGIO handler simply sets a
|
|
|
2677 flag, and later, the X event queue is scanned for KeyPress events which map
|
|
|
2678 to ^G. All redisplay happens in the main thread of the process.
|
|
|
2679
|
|
|
2680
|
|
|
2681 *** Keymaps
|
|
|
2682 -----------
|
|
|
2683
|
|
|
2684 Instead of keymaps being alists or obarrays, they are a new primary data
|
|
|
2685 type. The only user access to the contents of a keymap is through the
|
|
|
2686 existing keymap-manipulation functions, and a new function, map-keymap.
|
|
|
2687 This means that existing code that manipulates keymaps may need to
|
|
|
2688 be changed.
|
|
|
2689
|
|
|
2690 One of our goals with the new input and keymap code was to make more
|
|
|
2691 character combinations available for binding, besides just ASCII and
|
|
|
2692 function keys. We want to be able bind different commands to Control-a
|
|
|
2693 and Control-Shift-a; we also want it to be possible for the keys Control-h
|
|
|
2694 and Backspace (and Control-M and Return, and Control-I and Tab, etc) to
|
|
|
2695 be distinct.
|
|
|
2696
|
|
|
2697 One of the most common complaints that new Emacs users have is that backspace
|
|
|
2698 is help. The answer is to play around with the keyboard-translate-table, or
|
|
|
2699 be lucky enough to have a system administrator who has done this for you
|
|
|
2700 already; but if it were possible to bind backspace and C-h to different
|
|
|
2701 things, then (under a window manager at least) both backspace and delete
|
|
|
2702 would delete a character, and ^H would be help. There's no need to deal
|
|
|
2703 with xmodmap, kbd-translate-table, etc.
|
|
|
2704
|
|
|
2705 Here are some more examples: suppose you want to bind one function to Tab,
|
|
|
2706 and another to Control-Tab. This can't be done if Tab and Control-I are the
|
|
|
2707 same thing. What about control keys that have no ASCII equivalent, like
|
|
|
2708 Control-< ? One might want that to be bound to set-mark-at-point-min. We
|
|
|
2709 want M-C-Backspace to be kill-backward-sexp. But we want M-Backspace to be
|
|
|
2710 kill-backward-word. Again, this can't be done if Backspace and C-h are
|
|
|
2711 indistinguishable.
|
|
|
2712
|
|
|
2713 The user represents keys as a string of ASCII characters (when possible and
|
|
|
2714 convenient), or as a vector of event objects, or as a vector of "key
|
|
|
2715 description lists", that looks like (control a), or (control meta delete)
|
|
|
2716 or (shift f1). The order of the modifier-names is not significant, so
|
|
|
2717 (meta control x) and (control meta x) are the same.
|
|
|
2718
|
|
|
2719 `define-key' knows how to take any of the above representations and store them
|
|
|
2720 into a keymap. When Emacs wants to return a key sequence (this-command-keys,
|
|
|
2721 recent-keys, keyboard-macros, and read-key-sequence, for example) it returns
|
|
|
2722 a vector of event objects. Keyboard macros can also be represented as ASCII
|
|
|
2723 strings or as vectors of key description lists.
|
|
|
2724
|
|
|
2725 This is an incompatible change: code which calls `this-command-keys',
|
|
|
2726 `recent-keys', `read-key-sequence', or manipulates keyboard-macros probably
|
|
|
2727 needs to be changed so that it no longer assumes that the returned value is a
|
|
|
2728 string.
|
|
|
2729
|
|
|
2730 Control-Shift-a is specified as (control A), not (control shift a), since A
|
|
|
2731 is a two-case character. But for keys that don't have an upper case
|
|
|
2732 version, like F1, Backspace, and Escape, you use the (shift backspace) syntax.
|
|
|
2733
|
|
|
2734 See the doc string for our version of define-key, reproduced below in the
|
|
|
2735 `Changed Functions' section. Note that when the KEYS argument is a string,
|
|
|
2736 it has the same semantics as the v18 define-key.
|
|
|
2737
|
|
|
2738
|
|
|
2739 *** Xt Integration
|
|
|
2740 ------------------
|
|
|
2741
|
|
|
2742 The heart of the event loop is implemented in terms of the Xt event functions
|
|
|
2743 (specifically XtAppProcessEvent), and uses Xt's concept of timeouts and
|
|
|
2744 file-descriptor callbacks, eliminating a large amount of system-dependent code
|
|
|
2745 (Xt does it for you.)
|
|
|
2746
|
|
|
2747 If Emacs is compiled with support for X, it uses the Xt event loop even when
|
|
|
2748 Emacs is not running on an X display (the Xt event loop supports this). This
|
|
|
2749 makes it possible to run Emacs on a dumb TTY, and later connect it to one or
|
|
|
2750 more X servers. It should also be possible to later connect an existing Emacs
|
|
|
2751 process to additional TTY's, although this code is still experimental. (Our
|
|
|
2752 intent at this point is not to have an Emacs that is being used by multiple
|
|
|
2753 people at the same time: it is to make it possible for someone to go home, log
|
|
|
2754 in on a dialup line, and connect to the same Emacs process that is running
|
|
|
2755 under X in their office without having to recreate their buffer state and so
|
|
|
2756 on.)
|
|
|
2757
|
|
|
2758 If Emacs is not compiled with support for X, then it instead uses more general
|
|
|
2759 code, something like what v18 does; but this way of doing things is a lot more
|
|
|
2760 modular.
|
|
|
2761
|
|
|
2762 (Linking Emacs with Xt seems to only add about 300k to the executable size,
|
|
|
2763 compared with an Emacs linked with Xlib only.)
|
|
|
2764
|
|
|
2765
|
|
|
2766 *** Region Highlighting
|
|
|
2767 -----------------------
|
|
|
2768
|
|
|
2769 If the variable `zmacs-regions' is true, then the region between point and
|
|
|
2770 mark will be highlighted when "active". Those commands which push a mark
|
|
|
2771 (such as C-SPC, and C-x C-x) make the region become "active" and thus
|
|
|
2772 highlighted. Most commands (all non-motion commands, basically) cause it to
|
|
|
2773 become non-highlighted (non-"active"). Commands that operate on the region
|
|
|
2774 (such as C-w, C-x C-l, etc.) only work if the region is in the highlighted
|
|
|
2775 state.
|
|
|
2776
|
|
|
2777 zmacs-activate-region-hook and zmacs-deactivate-region-hook are run at the
|
|
|
2778 appropriate times; under X, zmacs-activate-region-hook makes the X selection
|
|
|
2779 be the region between point and mark, thus doing two things at once: making
|
|
|
2780 the region and the X selection be the same; and making the region highlight
|
|
|
2781 in the same way as the X selection.
|
|
|
2782
|
|
|
2783 If `zmacs-regions' is true, then the `mark-marker' command returns nil unless
|
|
|
2784 the region is currently in the active (highlighted) state. With an argument
|
|
|
2785 of t, this returns the mark (if there is one) regardless of the active-region
|
|
|
2786 state. You should *generally* not use the mark unless the region is active,
|
|
|
2787 if the user has expressed a preference for the active-region model. Watch
|
|
|
2788 out! Moving this marker changes the mark position. If you set the marker not
|
|
|
2789 to point anywhere, the buffer will have no mark.
|
|
|
2790
|
|
|
2791 In this way, the primary selection is a fairly transitory entity; but
|
|
|
2792 when something is copied to the kill ring, it is made the Clipboard
|
|
|
2793 selection. It is also stored into CUT_BUFFER0, for compatibility with
|
|
|
2794 X applications that don't understand selections (like Emacs18).
|
|
|
2795
|
|
|
2796 Compatibility note: if you have code which uses (mark) or (mark-marker),
|
|
|
2797 then you need to either: change those calls to (mark t) or (mark-marker t);
|
|
|
2798 or simply bind `zmacs-regions' to nil around the call to mark or mark-marker.
|
|
|
2799 This is probably the best solution, since it will work in Emacs 18 as well.
|
|
|
2800
|
|
|
2801
|
|
|
2802 *** Menubars and Dialog Boxes
|
|
|
2803 -----------------------------
|
|
|
2804
|
|
|
2805 Here is an example of a menubar definition:
|
|
|
2806
|
|
|
2807 (defvar default-menubar
|
|
|
2808 '(("File" ["Open File..." find-file t]
|
|
|
2809 ["Save Buffer" save-buffer t]
|
|
|
2810 ["Save Buffer As..." write-file t]
|
|
|
2811 ["Revert Buffer" revert-buffer t]
|
|
|
2812 "-----"
|
|
|
2813 ["Print Buffer" lpr-buffer t]
|
|
|
2814 "-----"
|
|
|
2815 ["Delete Frame" delete-frame t]
|
|
|
2816 ["Kill Buffer..." kill-buffer t]
|
|
|
2817 ["Exit Emacs" save-buffers-kill-emacs t]
|
|
|
2818 )
|
|
|
2819 ("Edit" ["Undo" advertised-undo t]
|
|
|
2820 ["Cut" kill-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
2821 ["Copy" copy-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
2822 ["Paste" yank-clipboard-selection t]
|
|
|
2823 ["Clear" delete-primary-selection t]
|
|
|
2824 )
|
|
|
2825 ...))
|
|
|
2826
|
|
|
2827 The first element of each menu item is the string to print on the menu.
|
|
|
2828
|
|
|
2829 The second element is the callback function; if it is a symbol, it is
|
|
|
2830 invoked with `call-interactively.' If it is a list, it is invoked with
|
|
|
2831 `eval'.
|
|
|
2832
|
|
|
2833 If the second element is a symbol, then the menu also displays the key that
|
|
|
2834 is bound to that command (if any).
|
|
|
2835
|
|
|
2836 The third element of the menu items determines whether the item is selectable.
|
|
|
2837 It may be t, nil, or a form to evaluate. Also, a hook is run just before a
|
|
|
2838 menu is exposed, which can be used to change the value of these slots.
|
|
|
2839 For example, there is a hook that makes the "undo" menu item be selectable
|
|
|
2840 only in the cases when `advertised-undo' would not signal an error.
|
|
|
2841
|
|
|
2842 Menus may have other menus nested within them; they will cascade.
|
|
|
2843
|
|
|
2844 There are utility functions for adding items to menus, deleting items,
|
|
|
2845 disabling them, etc.
|
|
|
2846
|
|
|
2847 The function `popup-menu' takes a menu description and pops it up.
|
|
|
2848
|
|
|
2849 The function `popup-dialog-box' takes a dialog-box description and pops
|
|
|
2850 it up. Dialog box descriptions look a lot like menu descriptions.
|
|
|
2851
|
|
|
2852 The menubar, menu, and dialog-box code is implemented as a library,
|
|
|
2853 with an interface which hides the toolkit that implements it.
|
|
|
2854
|
|
|
2855
|
|
|
2856 *** Isearch Changes
|
|
|
2857 -------------------
|
|
|
2858
|
|
|
2859 Isearch has been reimplemented in a different way, adding some new features,
|
|
|
2860 and causing a few incompatible changes.
|
|
|
2861
|
|
|
2862 - the old isearch-*-char variables are no longer supported. In the old
|
|
|
2863 system, one could make ^A mean "repeat the search" by doing something
|
|
|
2864 like (setq search-repeat-char ?C-a). In the new system, this is
|
|
|
2865 accomplished with
|
|
|
2866
|
|
|
2867 (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-a" 'isearch-repeat-forward)
|
|
|
2868
|
|
|
2869 - The advantage of using the normal keymap mechanism for this is that you
|
|
|
2870 can bind more than one key to an isearch command: for example, both C-a
|
|
|
2871 and C-s could do the same thing inside isearch mode. You can also bind
|
|
|
2872 multi-key sequences inside of isearch mode, and bind non-ASCII keys.
|
|
|
2873 For example, to use the F1 key to terminate a search:
|
|
|
2874
|
|
|
2875 (define-key isearch-mode-map 'f1 'isearch-exit)
|
|
|
2876
|
|
|
2877 or to make ``C-c C-c'' terminate a search:
|
|
|
2878
|
|
|
2879 (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-c\C-c" 'isearch-exit)
|
|
|
2880
|
|
|
2881 - If isearch is behaving case-insensitively (the default) and you type an
|
|
|
2882 upper case character, then the search will become case-sensitive. This
|
|
|
2883 can be disabled by setting `search-caps-disable-folding' to nil.
|
|
|
2884
|
|
|
2885 - There is a history ring of the strings previously searched for; typing
|
|
|
2886 M-p or M-n while searching will cycle through this ring. Typing M-TAB
|
|
|
2887 will do completion across the set of items in the history ring.
|
|
|
2888
|
|
|
2889 - The ESC key is no longer used to terminate an incremental search. The
|
|
|
2890 RET key should be used instead. This change is necessary for it to be
|
|
|
2891 possible to bind "meta" characters to isearch commands.
|
|
|
2892
|
|
|
2893
|
|
|
2894 *** Startup Code Changes
|
|
|
2895 ------------------------
|
|
|
2896
|
|
|
2897 The initial X frame is mapped before the user's .emacs file is executed.
|
|
|
2898 Without this, there is no way for the user to see any error messages
|
|
|
2899 generated by their .emacs file, any windows created by the .emacs file
|
|
|
2900 don't show up, and the copyleft notice isn't shown.
|
|
|
2901
|
|
|
2902 The default values for load-path, exec-path, lock-directory, and
|
|
|
2903 Info-directory-list are not (necessarily) built into Emacs, but are
|
|
|
2904 computed at startup time.
|
|
|
2905
|
|
|
2906 First, Emacs looks at the directory in which its executable file resides:
|
|
|
2907
|
|
|
2908 o If that directory contains subdirectories named "lisp" and "lib-src",
|
|
|
2909 then those directories are used as the lisp library and exec directory.
|
|
|
2910
|
|
|
2911 o If the parent of the directory in which the emacs executable is located
|
|
|
2912 contains "lisp" and "lib-src" subdirectories, then those are used.
|
|
|
2913
|
|
|
2914 o If ../lib/xemacs-<version> (starting from the directory in which the
|
|
|
2915 emacs executable is located) contains a "lisp" subdirectory and either
|
|
|
2916 a "lib-src" subdirectory or a <configuration-name> subdirectory, then
|
|
|
2917 those are used.
|
|
|
2918
|
|
|
2919 o If the emacs executable that was run is a symbolic link, then the link
|
|
|
2920 is chased, and the resultant directory is checked as above.
|
|
|
2921
|
|
|
2922 (Actually, it doesn't just look for "lisp/", it looks for "lisp/prim/",
|
|
|
2923 which reduces the chances of a false positive.)
|
|
|
2924
|
|
|
2925 If the lisp directory contains subdirectories, they are added to the default
|
|
|
2926 load-path as well. If the site-lisp directory exists and contains
|
|
|
2927 subdirectories, they are then added. Subdirectories whose names begin with
|
|
|
2928 a dot or a hyphen are not added to the load-path.
|
|
|
2929
|
|
|
2930 These heuristics fail if the Emacs binary was copied from the main Emacs
|
|
|
2931 tree to some other directory, and links for the lisp directory were not put
|
|
|
2932 in. This isn't much of a restriction: either make there be subdirectories
|
|
|
2933 (or symbolic links) of the directory of the emacs executable, or make the
|
|
|
2934 "installed" emacs executable be a symbolic link to an executable in a more
|
|
|
2935 appropriate directory structure. For example, this setup works:
|
|
|
2936
|
|
|
2937 /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs* ; The executable.
|
|
|
2938 /usr/local/xemacs/lisp/ ; The associated directories.
|
|
|
2939 /usr/local/xemacs/etc/ ; Any of the files in this list
|
|
|
2940 /usr/local/xemacs/lock/ ; could be symbolic links as well.
|
|
|
2941 /usr/local/xemacs/info/
|
|
|
2942
|
|
|
2943 As does this:
|
|
|
2944
|
|
|
2945 /usr/local/bin/xemacs -> ../xemacs/src/xemacs-19.14 ; A link...
|
|
|
2946 /usr/local/xemacs/src/xemacs-19.14* ; The executable,
|
|
|
2947 /usr/local/xemacs/lisp/ ; and the rest of
|
|
|
2948 /usr/local/xemacs/etc/ ; the source tree
|
|
|
2949 /usr/local/xemacs/lock/
|
|
|
2950 /usr/local/xemacs/info/
|
|
|
2951
|
|
|
2952 This configuration might be used for a multi-architecture installation; assume
|
|
|
2953 that $LOCAL refers to a directory which contains only files specific to a
|
|
|
2954 particular architecture (i.e., executables) and $SHARED refers to those files
|
|
|
2955 which are not machine specific (i.e., lisp code and documentation.)
|
|
|
2956
|
|
|
2957 $LOCAL/bin/xemacs@ -> $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/xemacs*
|
|
|
2958 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/lisp@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/lisp/
|
|
|
2959 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/etc@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/etc/
|
|
|
2960 $LOCAL/xemacs-19.14/info@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/info/
|
|
|
2961
|
|
|
2962 The following would also work, but the above is probably more attractive:
|
|
|
2963
|
|
|
2964 $LOCAL/bin/xemacs*
|
|
|
2965 $LOCAL/bin/lisp@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/lisp/
|
|
|
2966 $LOCAL/bin/etc@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/etc/
|
|
|
2967 $LOCAL/bin/info@ -> $SHARED/xemacs-19.14/info/
|
|
|
2968
|
|
|
2969 If Emacs can't find the requisite directories, it writes a message like this
|
|
|
2970 (or some appropriate subset of it) to stderr:
|
|
|
2971
|
|
|
2972 WARNING:
|
|
|
2973 couldn't find an obvious default for load-path, exec-directory, and
|
|
|
2974 lock-directory, and there were no defaults specified in paths.h when
|
|
|
2975 Emacs was built. Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the Emacs
|
|
|
2976 executable, /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/xemacs is in a strange place?
|
|
|
2977
|
|
|
2978 Without both exec-directory and load-path, Emacs will be very broken.
|
|
|
2979 Consider making a symbolic link from /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/etc
|
|
|
2980 to wherever the appropriate Emacs etc/ directory is, and from
|
|
|
2981 /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/lisp/ to wherever the appropriate Emacs
|
|
|
2982 lisp library is.
|
|
|
2983
|
|
|
2984 Without lock-directory set, file locking won't work. Consider
|
|
|
2985 creating /cadillac-th/jwz/somewhere/lock as a directory or symbolic
|
|
|
2986 link for use as the lock directory.
|
|
|
2987
|
|
|
2988 The default installation tree is the following:
|
|
|
2989
|
|
|
2990 /usr/local/bin/b2m ;
|
|
|
2991 ctags ; executables that
|
|
|
2992 emacsclient ; should be in
|
|
|
2993 etags ; user's path
|
|
|
2994 xemacs -> xemacs-<version> ;
|
|
|
2995 xemacs ;
|
|
|
2996 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp
|
|
|
2997 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock
|
|
|
2998 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/etc ; architecture ind. files
|
|
|
2999 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/info
|
|
|
3000 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/lisp
|
|
|
3001 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-<version>/<configuration> ; binaries emacs may run
|
|
|
3002
|
|
|
3003
|
|
|
3004 *** X Resources
|
|
|
3005 ---------------
|
|
|
3006
|
|
|
3007 (Note: This section is copied verbatim from the XEmacs Reference Manual.)
|
|
|
3008
|
|
|
3009 The Emacs resources are generally set per-frame. Each Emacs frame
|
|
|
3010 can have its own name or the same name as another, depending on the
|
|
|
3011 name passed to the `make-frame' function.
|
|
|
3012
|
|
|
3013 You can specify resources for all frames with the syntax:
|
|
|
3014
|
|
|
3015 Emacs*parameter: value
|
|
|
3016
|
|
|
3017 or
|
|
|
3018
|
|
|
3019 Emacs*EmacsFrame.parameter:value
|
|
|
3020
|
|
|
3021 You can specify resources for a particular frame with the syntax:
|
|
|
3022
|
|
|
3023 Emacs*FRAME-NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3024
|
|
|
3025
|
|
|
3026 **** Geometry Resources
|
|
|
3027 -----------------------
|
|
|
3028
|
|
|
3029 To make the default size of all Emacs frames be 80 columns by 55
|
|
|
3030 lines, do this:
|
|
|
3031
|
|
|
3032 Emacs*EmacsFrame.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3033
|
|
|
3034 To set the geometry of a particular frame named `fred', do this:
|
|
|
3035
|
|
|
3036 Emacs*fred.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3037
|
|
|
3038 Important! Do not use the following syntax:
|
|
|
3039
|
|
|
3040 Emacs*geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3041
|
|
|
3042 You should never use `*geometry' with any X application. It does not
|
|
|
3043 say "make the geometry of Emacs be 80 columns by 55 lines." It really
|
|
|
3044 says, "make Emacs and all subwindows thereof be 80x55 in whatever units
|
|
|
3045 they care to measure in." In particular, that is both telling the
|
|
|
3046 Emacs text pane to be 80x55 in characters, and telling the menubar pane
|
|
|
3047 to be 80x55 pixels, which is surely not what you want.
|
|
|
3048
|
|
|
3049 As a special case, this geometry specification also works (and sets
|
|
|
3050 the default size of all Emacs frames to 80 columns by 55 lines):
|
|
|
3051
|
|
|
3052 Emacs.geometry: 80x55
|
|
|
3053
|
|
|
3054 since that is the syntax used with most other applications (since most
|
|
|
3055 other applications have only one top-level window, unlike Emacs). In
|
|
|
3056 general, however, the top-level shell (the unmapped ApplicationShell
|
|
|
3057 widget named `Emacs' that is the parent of the shell widgets that
|
|
|
3058 actually manage the individual frames) does not have any interesting
|
|
|
3059 resources on it, and you should set the resources on the frames instead.
|
|
|
3060
|
|
|
3061 The `-geometry' command-line argument sets only the geometry of the
|
|
|
3062 initial frame created by Emacs.
|
|
|
3063
|
|
|
3064 A more complete explanation of geometry-handling is
|
|
|
3065
|
|
|
3066 * The `-geometry' command-line option sets the `Emacs.geometry'
|
|
|
3067 resource, that is, the geometry of the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3068
|
|
|
3069 * For the first frame created, the size of the frame is taken from
|
|
|
3070 the ApplicationShell if it is specified, otherwise from the
|
|
|
3071 geometry of the frame.
|
|
|
3072
|
|
|
3073 * For subsequent frames, the order is reversed: First the frame, and
|
|
|
3074 then the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3075
|
|
|
3076 * For the first frame created, the position of the frame is taken
|
|
|
3077 from the ApplicationShell (`Emacs.geometry') if it is specified,
|
|
|
3078 otherwise from the geometry of the frame.
|
|
|
3079
|
|
|
3080 * For subsequent frames, the position is taken only from the frame,
|
|
|
3081 and never from the ApplicationShell.
|
|
|
3082
|
|
|
3083 This is rather complicated, but it does seem to provide the most
|
|
|
3084 intuitive behavior with respect to the default sizes and positions of
|
|
|
3085 frames created in various ways.
|
|
|
3086
|
|
|
3087
|
|
|
3088 **** Iconic Resources
|
|
|
3089 ---------------------
|
|
|
3090
|
|
|
3091 Analogous to `-geometry', the `-iconic' command-line option sets the
|
|
|
3092 iconic flag of the ApplicationShell (`Emacs.iconic') and always applies
|
|
|
3093 to the first frame created regardless of its name. However, it is
|
|
|
3094 possible to set the iconic flag on particular frames (by name) by using
|
|
|
3095 the `Emacs*FRAME-NAME.iconic' resource.
|
|
|
3096
|
|
|
3097
|
|
|
3098 **** Resource List
|
|
|
3099 ------------------
|
|
|
3100
|
|
|
3101 Emacs frames accept the following resources:
|
|
|
3102
|
|
|
3103 `geometry' (class `Geometry'): string
|
|
|
3104 Initial geometry for the frame. *Note Geometry Resources:: for a
|
|
|
3105 complete discussion of how this works.
|
|
|
3106
|
|
|
3107 `iconic' (class `Iconic'): boolean
|
|
|
3108 Whether this frame should appear in the iconified state.
|
|
|
3109
|
|
|
3110 `internalBorderWidth' (class `InternalBorderWidth'): int
|
|
|
3111 How many blank pixels to leave between the text and the edge of the
|
|
|
3112 window.
|
|
|
3113
|
|
|
3114 `interline' (class `Interline'): int
|
|
|
3115 How many pixels to leave between each line (may not be
|
|
|
3116 implemented).
|
|
|
3117
|
|
|
3118 `menubar' (class `Menubar'): boolean
|
|
|
3119 Whether newly-created frames should initially have a menubar. Set
|
|
|
3120 to true by default.
|
|
|
3121
|
|
|
3122 `initiallyUnmapped' (class `InitiallyUnmapped'): boolean
|
|
|
3123 Whether XEmacs should leave the initial frame unmapped when it
|
|
|
3124 starts up. This is useful if you are starting XEmacs as a server
|
|
|
3125 (e.g. in conjunction with gnuserv or the external client widget).
|
|
|
3126 You can also control this with the `-unmapped' command-line option.
|
|
|
3127
|
|
|
3128 `barCursor' (class `BarColor'): boolean
|
|
|
3129 Whether the cursor should be displayed as a bar, or the
|
|
|
3130 traditional box.
|
|
|
3131
|
|
|
3132 `textPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3133 The cursor to use when the mouse is over text. This resource is
|
|
|
3134 used to initialize the variable `x-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3135
|
|
|
3136 `selectionPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3137 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a selectable text region
|
|
|
3138 (an extent with the `highlight' property; for example, an Info
|
|
|
3139 cross-reference). This resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3140 `x-selection-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3141
|
|
|
3142 `spacePointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3143 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a blank space in a buffer
|
|
|
3144 (that is, after the end of a line or after the end-of-file). This
|
|
|
3145 resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3146 `x-nontext-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3147
|
|
|
3148 `modeLinePointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3149 The cursor to use when the mouse is over a mode line. This
|
|
|
3150 resource is used to initialize the variable `x-mode-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3151
|
|
|
3152 `gcPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3153 The cursor to display when a garbage-collection is in progress.
|
|
|
3154 This resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3155 `x-gc-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3156
|
|
|
3157 `scrollbarPointer' (class `Cursor'): cursor-name
|
|
|
3158 The cursor to use when the mouse is over the scrollbar. This
|
|
|
3159 resource is used to initialize the variable
|
|
|
3160 `x-scrollbar-pointer-shape'.
|
|
|
3161
|
|
|
3162 `pointerColor' (class `Foreground'): color-name
|
|
|
3163 `pointerBackground' (class `Background'): color-name
|
|
|
3164 The foreground and background colors of the mouse cursor. These
|
|
|
3165 resources are used to initialize the variables
|
|
|
3166 `x-pointer-foreground-color' and `x-pointer-background-color'.
|
|
|
3167
|
|
|
3168 `scrollBarWidth' (class `ScrollBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3169 How wide the vertical scrollbars should be, in pixels; 0 means no
|
|
|
3170 vertical scrollbars. You can also use a resource specification of
|
|
|
3171 the form `*scrollbar.width', or the usual toolkit scrollbar
|
|
|
3172 resources: `*XmScrollBar.width' (Motif), `*XlwScrollBar.width'
|
|
|
3173 (Lucid), or `*Scrollbar.thickness' (Athena). We don't recommend
|
|
|
3174 that you use the toolkit resources, though, because they're
|
|
|
3175 dependent on how exactly your particular build of XEmacs was
|
|
|
3176 configured.
|
|
|
3177
|
|
|
3178 `scrollBarHeight' (class `ScrollBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3179 How high the horizontal scrollbars should be, in pixels; 0 means no
|
|
|
3180 horizontal scrollbars. You can also use a resource specification
|
|
|
3181 of the form `*scrollbar.height', or the usual toolkit scrollbar
|
|
|
3182 resources: `*XmScrollBar.height' (Motif), `*XlwScrollBar.height'
|
|
|
3183 (Lucid), or `*Scrollbar.thickness' (Athena). We don't recommend
|
|
|
3184 that you use the toolkit resources, though, because they're
|
|
|
3185 dependent on how exactly your particular build of XEmacs was
|
|
|
3186 configured.
|
|
|
3187
|
|
|
3188 `scrollBarPlacement' (class `ScrollBarPlacement'): string
|
|
|
3189 Where the horizontal and vertical scrollbars should be positioned.
|
|
|
3190 This should be one of the four strings `bottom-left',
|
|
|
3191 `bottom-right', `top-left', and `top-right'. Default is
|
|
|
3192 `bottom-right' for the Motif and Lucid scrollbars and
|
|
|
3193 `bottom-left' for the Athena scrollbars.
|
|
|
3194
|
|
|
3195 `topToolBarHeight' (class `TopToolBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3196 `bottomToolBarHeight' (class `BottomToolBarHeight'): integer
|
|
|
3197 `leftToolBarWidth' (class `LeftToolBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3198 `rightToolBarWidth' (class `RightToolBarWidth'): integer
|
|
|
3199 Height and width of the four possible toolbars.
|
|
|
3200
|
|
|
3201 `topToolBarShadowColor' (class `TopToolBarShadowColor'): color-name
|
|
|
3202 `bottomToolBarShadowColor' (class `BottomToolBarShadowColor'): color-name
|
|
|
3203 Color of the top and bottom shadows for the toolbars. NOTE: These
|
|
|
3204 resources do *not* have anything to do with the top and bottom
|
|
|
3205 toolbars (i.e. the toolbars at the top and bottom of the frame)!
|
|
|
3206 Rather, they affect the top and bottom shadows around the edges of
|
|
|
3207 all four kinds of toolbars.
|
|
|
3208
|
|
|
3209 `topToolBarShadowPixmap' (class `TopToolBarShadowPixmap'): pixmap-name
|
|
|
3210 `bottomToolBarShadowPixmap' (class `BottomToolBarShadowPixmap'): pixmap-name
|
|
|
3211 Pixmap of the top and bottom shadows for the toolbars. If set,
|
|
|
3212 these resources override the corresponding color resources. NOTE:
|
|
|
3213 These resources do *not* have anything to do with the top and
|
|
|
3214 bottom toolbars (i.e. the toolbars at the top and bottom of the
|
|
|
3215 frame)! Rather, they affect the top and bottom shadows around the
|
|
|
3216 edges of all four kinds of toolbars.
|
|
|
3217
|
|
|
3218 `toolBarShadowThickness' (class `ToolBarShadowThickness'): integer
|
|
|
3219 Thickness of the shadows around the toolbars, in pixels.
|
|
|
3220
|
|
|
3221 `visualBell' (class `VisualBell'): boolean
|
|
|
3222 Whether XEmacs should flash the screen rather than making an
|
|
|
3223 audible beep.
|
|
|
3224
|
|
|
3225 `bellVolume' (class `BellVolume'): integer
|
|
|
3226 Volume of the audible beep.
|
|
|
3227
|
|
|
3228 `useBackingStore' (class `UseBackingStore'): boolean
|
|
|
3229 Whether XEmacs should set the backing-store attribute of the X
|
|
|
3230 windows it creates. This increases the memory usage of the X
|
|
|
3231 server but decreases the amount of X traffic necessary to update
|
|
|
3232 the screen, and is useful when the connection to the X server goes
|
|
|
3233 over a low-bandwidth line such as a modem connection.
|
|
|
3234
|
|
|
3235
|
|
|
3236 **** Face Resources
|
|
|
3237 -------------------
|
|
|
3238
|
|
|
3239 The attributes of faces are also per-frame. They can be specified as:
|
|
|
3240
|
|
|
3241 Emacs.FACE_NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3242
|
|
|
3243 (*do not* use `Emacs*FACE_NAME...')
|
|
|
3244
|
|
|
3245 or
|
|
|
3246
|
|
|
3247 Emacs*FRAME_NAME.FACE_NAME.parameter: value
|
|
|
3248
|
|
|
3249 Faces accept the following resources:
|
|
|
3250
|
|
|
3251 `attributeFont' (class `AttributeFont'): font-name
|
|
|
3252 The font of this face.
|
|
|
3253
|
|
|
3254 `attributeForeground' (class `AttributeForeground'): color-name
|
|
|
3255 `attributeBackground' (class `AttributeBackground'): color-name
|
|
|
3256 The foreground and background colors of this face.
|
|
|
3257
|
|
|
3258 `attributeBackgroundPixmap' (class `AttributeBackgroundPixmap'): file-name
|
|
|
3259 The name of an XBM file (or XPM file, if your version of Emacs
|
|
|
3260 supports XPM), to use as a background stipple.
|
|
|
3261
|
|
|
3262 `attributeUnderline' (class `AttributeUnderline'): boolean
|
|
|
3263 Whether text in this face should be underlined.
|
|
|
3264
|
|
|
3265 All text is displayed in some face, defaulting to the face named
|
|
|
3266 `default'. To set the font of normal text, use
|
|
|
3267 `Emacs*default.attributeFont'. To set it in the frame named `fred', use
|
|
|
3268 `Emacs*fred.default.attributeFont'.
|
|
|
3269
|
|
|
3270 These are the names of the predefined faces:
|
|
|
3271
|
|
|
3272 `default'
|
|
|
3273 Everything inherits from this.
|
|
|
3274
|
|
|
3275 `bold'
|
|
|
3276 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3277 find a bold version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3278
|
|
|
3279 `italic'
|
|
|
3280 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3281 find an italic version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3282
|
|
|
3283 `bold-italic'
|
|
|
3284 If this is not specified in the resource database, Emacs tries to
|
|
|
3285 find a bold-italic version of the font of the default face.
|
|
|
3286
|
|
|
3287 `modeline'
|
|
|
3288 This is the face that the modeline is displayed in. If not
|
|
|
3289 specified in the resource database, it is determined from the
|
|
|
3290 default face by reversing the foreground and background colors.
|
|
|
3291
|
|
|
3292 `highlight'
|
|
|
3293 This is the face that highlighted extents (for example, Info
|
|
|
3294 cross-references and possible completions, when the mouse passes
|
|
|
3295 over them) are displayed in.
|
|
|
3296
|
|
|
3297 `left-margin'
|
|
|
3298 `right-margin'
|
|
|
3299 These are the faces that the left and right annotation margins are
|
|
|
3300 displayed in.
|
|
|
3301
|
|
|
3302 `zmacs-region'
|
|
|
3303 This is the face that mouse selections are displayed in.
|
|
|
3304
|
|
|
3305 `text-cursor'
|
|
|
3306 This is the face that the cursor is displayed in.
|
|
|
3307
|
|
|
3308 `isearch'
|
|
|
3309 This is the face that the matched text being searched for is
|
|
|
3310 displayed in.
|
|
|
3311
|
|
|
3312 `info-node'
|
|
|
3313 This is the face of info menu items. If unspecified, it is copied
|
|
|
3314 from `bold-italic'.
|
|
|
3315
|
|
|
3316 `info-xref'
|
|
|
3317 This is the face of info cross-references. If unspecified, it is
|
|
|
3318 copied from `bold'. (Note that, when the mouse passes over a
|
|
|
3319 cross-reference, the cross-reference's face is determined from a
|
|
|
3320 combination of the `info-xref' and `highlight' faces.)
|
|
|
3321
|
|
|
3322 Other packages might define their own faces; to see a list of all
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3323 faces, use any of the interactive face-manipulation commands such as
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3324 `set-face-font' and type `?' when you are prompted for the name of a
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3325 face.
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3326
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3327 If the `bold', `italic', and `bold-italic' faces are not specified
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3328 in the resource database, then XEmacs attempts to derive them from the
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3329 font of the default face. It can only succeed at this if you have
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3330 specified the default font using the XLFD (X Logical Font Description)
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3331 format, which looks like
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3332
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3333 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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3334
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3335 If you use any of the other, less strict font name formats, some of
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3336 which look like
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3337
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3338 lucidasanstypewriter-12
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3339 fixed
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3340 9x13
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3341
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3342 then XEmacs won't be able to guess the names of the bold and italic
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3343 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
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3344 should use those forms. See the man pages for `X(1)', `xlsfonts(1)',
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3345 and `xfontsel(1)'.
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3346
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3347
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3348 **** Widgets
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3349 ------------
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3350
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3351 There are several structural widgets between the terminal EmacsFrame
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3352 widget and the top level ApplicationShell; the exact names and types of
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3353 these widgets change from release to release (for example, they changed
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3354 in 19.9, 19.10, 19.12, and 19.13) and are subject to further change in
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3355 the future, so you should avoid mentioning them in your resource database.
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3356 The above-mentioned syntaxes should be forward-compatible. As of 19.14,
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3357 the exact widget hierarchy is as follows:
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3358
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3359 INVOCATION-NAME "shell" "container" FRAME-NAME
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3360 x-emacs-application-class "TopLevelEmacsShell" "EmacsManager" "EmacsFrame"
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3361
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3362 (for normal frames)
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3363
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3364 or
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3365
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3366 INVOCATION-NAME "shell" "container" FRAME-NAME
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3367 x-emacs-application-class "TransientEmacsShell" "EmacsManager" "EmacsFrame"
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3368
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3369 (for popup/dialog-box frames)
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3370
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3371 where INVOCATION-NAME is the terminal component of the name of the
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3372 XEmacs executable (usually `xemacs'), and `x-emacs-application-class'
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3373 is generally `Emacs'.
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3374
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3375
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3376 **** Menubar Resources
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3377 ----------------------
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3378
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3379 As the menubar is implemented as a widget which is not a part of
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3380 XEmacs proper, it does not use the face mechanism for specifying fonts
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3381 and colors: It uses whatever resources are appropriate to the type of
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3382 widget which is used to implement it.
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3383
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3384 If Emacs was compiled to use only the Motif-lookalike menu widgets,
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3385 then one way to specify the font of the menubar would be
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3386
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3387 Emacs*menubar*font: *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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3388
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3389 If the Motif library is being used, then one would have to use
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3390
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3391 Emacs*menubar*fontList: *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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3392
|
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3393 because the Motif library uses the `fontList' resource name instead
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3394 of `font', which has subtly different semantics.
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3395
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3396 The same is true of the scrollbars: They accept whichever resources
|
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3397 are appropriate for the toolkit in use.
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3398
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3399
|
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3400 *** Source Code Highlighting
|
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3401 ----------------------------
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3402
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3403 It's possible to have your buffers "decorated" with fonts or colors
|
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3404 indicating syntactic structures (such as strings, comments, function names,
|
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3405 "reserved words", etc.). In XEmacs, the preferred way to do this is with
|
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3406 font-lock-mode; activate it by adding the following code to your .emacs file:
|
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3407
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3408 (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
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3409 (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
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3410 (add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
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3411 (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
|
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3412 ...etc...
|
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3413
|
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3414 To customize it, see the descriptions of the function `font-lock-mode' and
|
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3415 the variables `font-lock-keywords', `c-font-lock-keywords', etc.
|
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3416
|
|
|
3417 There exist several other source code highlighting packages, but font-lock
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|
3418 does one thing that most others don't do: highlights as you type new text;
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|
3419 and one thing that no others do: bases part of its decoration on the
|
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3420 syntax table of the major mode. Font-lock has C-level support to do this
|
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3421 efficiently, so it should also be significantly faster than the others.
|
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3422
|
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3423 If there's something that another highlighting package does that you can't
|
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3424 make font-lock do, let us know. We would prefer to consolidate all of the
|
|
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3425 desired functionality into one package rather than ship several different
|
|
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3426 packages which do essentially the same thing in different ways.
|
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3427
|
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3428
|
|
|
3429 ** Differences Between XEmacs and Emacs 18
|
|
|
3430 ==========================================
|
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3431
|
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3432 Auto-configure support has been added, so it should be fairly easy to compile
|
|
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3433 XEmacs on different systems. If you have any problems or feedback about
|
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|
3434 compiling on your system, please let us know.
|
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3435
|
|
|
3436 We have reimplemented the basic input model in a more general way; instead of
|
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|
3437 X input being a special-case of the normal ASCII input stream, XEmacs has a
|
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3438 concept of "input events", and ASCII characters are a subset of that. The
|
|
|
3439 events that XEmacs knows about are not X events, but are a generalization of
|
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|
3440 them, so that XEmacs can eventually be ported to different window systems.
|
|
|
3441
|
|
|
3442 We have reimplemented keymaps so that sequences of events can be stored into
|
|
|
3443 them instead of just ASCII codes; it is possible to, for example, bind
|
|
|
3444 different commands to each of the chords Control-h, Control-H, Backspace,
|
|
|
3445 Control-Backspace, and Super-Shift-Backspace. Key bindings, function key
|
|
|
3446 bindings, and mouse bindings live in the same keymaps.
|
|
|
3447
|
|
|
3448 Input and display of all ISO-8859-1 characters is supported.
|
|
|
3449
|
|
|
3450 You can have multiple X windows ("frames" in XEmacs terminology).
|
|
|
3451
|
|
|
3452 XEmacs has objects called "extents" and "faces", which are roughly
|
|
|
3453 analogous to Epoch's "buttons," "zones," and "styles." An extent is a
|
|
|
3454 region of text (a start position and an end position) and a face is a
|
|
|
3455 collection of textual attributes like fonts and colors. Every extent
|
|
|
3456 is displayed in some "face", so changing the properties of a face
|
|
|
3457 immediately updates the display of all associated extents. Faces can
|
|
|
3458 be frame-local: you can have a region of text which displays with
|
|
|
3459 completely different attributes when its buffer is viewed from a
|
|
|
3460 different X window.
|
|
|
3461
|
|
|
3462 The display attributes of faces may be specified either in lisp or through
|
|
|
3463 the X resource manager.
|
|
|
3464
|
|
|
3465 Pixmaps of arbitrary size can be embedded in a buffer.
|
|
|
3466
|
|
|
3467 Variable width fonts work.
|
|
|
3468
|
|
|
3469 The height of a line is the height of the tallest font on that line, instead
|
|
|
3470 of all lines having the same height.
|
|
|
3471
|
|
|
3472 XEmacs uses the MIT "Xt" toolkit instead of raw Xlib calls, which
|
|
|
3473 makes it be a more well-behaved X citizen (and also improves
|
|
|
3474 portability). A result of this is that it is possible to include
|
|
|
3475 other Xt "Widgets" in the XEmacs window. Also, XEmacs understands the
|
|
|
3476 standard Xt command-line arguments.
|
|
|
3477
|
|
|
3478 XEmacs understands the X11 "Selection" mechanism; it's possible to define
|
|
|
3479 and customize selection converter functions and new selection types from
|
|
|
3480 Emacs Lisp, without having to recompile XEmacs.
|
|
|
3481
|
|
|
3482 XEmacs provides support for ToolTalk on systems that have it.
|
|
|
3483
|
|
|
3484 XEmacs supports the Zmacs/Lispm style of region highlighting, where the
|
|
|
3485 region between the point and mark is highlighted when in its "active" state.
|
|
|
3486
|
|
|
3487 XEmacs has a menubar, whose contents are customizable from emacs-lisp.
|
|
|
3488 This menubar looks Motif-ish, but does not require Motif. If you already
|
|
|
3489 own Motif, however, you can configure XEmacs to use a *real* Motif menubar
|
|
|
3490 instead.
|
|
|
3491
|
|
|
3492 XEmacs can ask questions using popup dialog boxes. Any command executed from
|
|
|
3493 a menu will ask yes/no questions with dialog boxes, while commands executed
|
|
|
3494 via the keyboard will use the minibuffer.
|
|
|
3495
|
|
|
3496 XEmacs has vertical and horizontal scrollbars.
|
|
|
3497
|
|
|
3498 The initial load-path is computed at run-time, instead of at compile-time.
|
|
|
3499 This means that if you move the XEmacs executable and associated directories
|
|
|
3500 to somewhere else, you don't have to recompile anything.
|
|
|
3501
|
|
|
3502 You can specify what the title of the XEmacs windows and icons should be
|
|
|
3503 with the variables `frame-title-format' and `frame-icon-title-format',
|
|
|
3504 which have the same syntax as `mode-line-format'.
|
|
|
3505
|
|
|
3506 XEmacs now supports floating-point numbers.
|
|
|
3507
|
|
|
3508 XEmacs now knows about timers directly, instead of them being simulated by
|
|
|
3509 a subprocess.
|
|
|
3510
|
|
|
3511 XEmacs understands truenames, and can be configured to notice when you are
|
|
|
3512 visiting two names of the same file. See the variables find-file-use-truenames
|
|
|
3513 and find-file-compare-truenames.
|
|
|
3514
|
|
|
3515 If you're running on a machine with audio hardware, you can specify sound
|
|
|
3516 files for XEmacs to play instead of the default X beep. See the documentation
|
|
|
3517 of the function load-sound-file and the variable sound-alist.
|
|
|
3518
|
|
|
3519 An XEmacs frame can be placed within an "external client widget" managed by
|
|
|
3520 another application. This allows an application to use an XEmacs frame as its
|
|
|
3521 text pane rather than the standard Text widget that is provided with Motif or
|
|
|
3522 Athena. XEmacs supports Motif applications, generic Xt (e.g. Athena)
|
|
|
3523 applications, and raw Xlib applications.
|
|
|
3524
|
|
|
3525 Random changes to the emacs-lisp library: (some of this was not written by
|
|
|
3526 us, but is included because it's free software and we think it's good stuff)
|
|
|
3527
|
|
|
3528 - there is a new optimizing byte-compiler
|
|
|
3529 - there is a new abbrev-based mail-alias mechanism
|
|
|
3530 - the -*- line can contain local-variable settings
|
|
|
3531 - there is a new TAGS package
|
|
|
3532 - there is a new VI-emulation mode (viper)
|
|
|
3533 - there is a new implementation of Dired
|
|
|
3534 - there is a new implementation of Isearch
|
|
|
3535 - the VM package for reading mail is provided
|
|
|
3536 - the W3 package for browsing the World Wide Web hypertext information
|
|
|
3537 system is provided
|
|
|
3538 - the Hyperbole package, a programmable information management and
|
|
|
3539 hypertext system
|
|
|
3540 - the OO-Browser package, a multi-language object-oriented browser
|
|
|
3541
|
|
|
3542 There are many more specifics in the "Miscellaneous Changes" section, below.
|
|
|
3543
|
|
|
3544 The online Emacs Manual and Emacs-Lisp Manual are now both relatively
|
|
|
3545 up-to-date.
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