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1 -*- mode:outline -*-
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3 * Changes in XEmacs 20.4
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4 ========================
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6 ** XEmacs 20.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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8
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9 * Changes in XEmacs 20.3
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10 ========================
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11
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12 ** Quail input method is now available.
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13
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14 Quail is a simple key-translation system that allows users to input
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15 any multilingual text from normal ASCII keyboard. This means that
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16 XEmacs with Mule now supports a number of European languages.
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17
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18 ** More Windows NT support.
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20 Thanks to efforts of many people, coordinated by David Hobley
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21 <davidh@wr.com.au> and Marc Paquette <marcpa@cam.org>, beta versions
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22 of XEmacs now run on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows NT and Windows
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23 95). The current betas require having an X server to run XEmacs;
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24 however, a native NT/95 port is in alpha, thanks to Jonathan Harris
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25 <jhar@tardis.ed.ac.uk>.
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26
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27 The NT development is now coordinated by a mailing list at
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28 <xemacs-nt@xemacs.org>. Mail to <xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org> to
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29 subscribe.
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30
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31 ** Multiple TTY frames are now available.
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32
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33 On consoles that display only one frame at a time (e.g. TTY consoles),
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34 creating a new frame with `C-x 5 2' also raises and selects that
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35 frame. The behavior of window system frames is unchanged.
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36
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37 ** Package starting changes.
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38
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39 State of Emacs should never be changed with loading a package. The
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40 following XEmacs packages that used to break this have been changed.
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41
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42 *** Loading `paren' no longer enables paren-blinking. Use
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43 `paren-set-mode' explicitly, or customize `paren-mode'.
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44
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45 *** Loading `uniquify' no longer enables uniquify. Set
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46 `uniquify-buffer-name-style' to a legal value.
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47
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48 *** Loading `time' no longer enables display time. Invoke
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49 `display-time' explicitly.
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50
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51 *** Loading `jka-compr' no longer enables on-the-fly compression. Use
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52 `toggle-auto-compression' instead.
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53
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54 *** Loading `id-select' no longer enables its behaviour. Use
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55 `id-select-install' instead.
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56
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57 ** Zmacs region is not deactivated when an error is signaled.
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58
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59 The behavior of the zmacs region can now be controlled in the event of
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60 a signaled error. The new variable `errors-deactivate-region' may be
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61 set to nil to revert to the old behaviour. As before, typing C-g
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62 deactivates the region.
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63
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64 ** Multiple Info `dir' functionality has been merged with GNU Emacs
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65 19.34.
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66
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67 XEmacs will now correctly merge all the `dir' files in
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68 `Info-directory-list' (initialized from either the `INFOPATH'
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69 env. variable or `Info-default-directory-list'.) These files may be
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70 full-fledged info files containing subnodes or menus. Previously
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71 supported `localdir' files are looked for also, secondary to `dir's.
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72 See the manual for details.
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73
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74 ** Abbreviations can now contain non-word characters.
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75
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76 This means that it is finally possible to do such simple things as
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77 define `#in' to expand to `#include' in C mode, `s-c-b' to
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78 `save-current-buffer' in Lisp mode, `call/cc' to
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79 `call-with-current-continuation' in Scheme mode, etc.
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80
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81 ** `C-x n d' now runs the new command `narrow-to-defun',
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82 which narrows the accessible parts of the buffer to just
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83 the current defun.
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84
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85 ** The new command `C-x 4 0' (kill-buffer-and-window) kills the
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86 current buffer and deletes the selected window. It asks for
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87 confirmation first.
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88
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89 ** `ESC ESC ESC' (keyboard-escape-quit) will now correctly abort
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90 recursive edits (as documented.)
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91
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92 ** arc-mode has a new function called `archive-quit' bound to q, which
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93 quits archive mode in the same fashion dired-quit works.
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94
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95 ** A `tetris' clone is now available within XEmacs, written by Glynn
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96 Clements. Try it out with `M-x tetris'.
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97
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98 ** The feature to teach the key bindings of extended commands now
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99 prints the message after the command finishes. After some time, the
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100 previous echo area contents are restored (in case the command prints
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101 something useful).
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102
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103 ** If you set scroll-conservatively to a small number, then when you
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104 move point a short distance off the screen, XEmacs will scroll the
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105 screen just far enough to bring point back on screen, provided that
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106 does not exceed `scroll-conservatively' lines.
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107
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108 ** Face background colors now take precedence over the default face
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109 background pixmap, which means that background pixmaps no longer clash
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110 with zmacs-regions, or clickable buttons.
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111
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112 ** Regexps can now contain additional Perl-like constructs.
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113
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114 ** Modifiers can be added to a keystroke by preceding it with a `C-x @
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115 <x>' sequence where <x> is one of letters `S', `c', `m', `a', `h', `s'
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116 corresponding to shift, control, meta, alt, hyper, and super modifiers,
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117 respectively. It is possible to add several modifiers by repeating this
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118 sequence. This feature is especially useful on text terminals where it
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119 allows one to enter keystrokes like, e.g., `M-home'.
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120
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121 ** An arbitrary keystroke can be generated by entering `C-x @ k
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122 <keysym-name> RET'. For example a sequence:
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123
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124 C-x @ c C-x @ k b a c k s p a c e RET
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125
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126 will result in a `C-backspace' keystroke even on text terminals.
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127
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128 ** Customize changes.
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129
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130 *** Customize has undergone a massive speedup, and should now operate
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131 acceptably fast. Slowness of the interface used to be the biggest
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132 gripe.
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133
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134 *** Many more packages have been modified to use the facility, so
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135 almost all of XEmacs options can now be examined through the Customize
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136 groups.
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137
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138 *** There is a new `browser' mode of traversing customizations, in
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139 many ways easier to follow than the standard one. Try it out with
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140 `M-x customize-browse'.
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141
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142 ** Pending-delete changes.
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143
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144 *** Pending-delete is now a minor mode, with the normal minor-mode
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145 semantics and toggle functions. Old functions are left for
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146 compatibility.
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147
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148 *** Loading pending-del no longer turns on pending-delete mode. In
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149 fact, it is no longer necessary to explicitly load pending-del. All
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150 you need to do to turn on pending-delete is run the pending-delete
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151 function:
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152
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153 Within XEmacs: Type M-x pending-delete <ret>
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154 not M-x load-library <ret> pending-delete <ret>
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155
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156 In .emacs: Use (turn-on-pending-delete)
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157 not (load "pending-del")
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158
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159 ** XEmacs can now save the minibuffer histories from various
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160 minibuffers. To use this feature, add the line:
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161
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162 (savehist-load)
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163
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164 to your .emacs. This will load the minibuffer histories (if any) at
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165 startup, as well as instruct XEmacs to save them before exiting. You
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166 can use Customize to add or remove the histories being saved.
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167
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168 ** The default format for ChangeLog entries (as created by `C-x 4 a')
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169 is now the international ISO 8601 format.
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170
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171 To revert to the old behaviour, use:
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172
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173 (setq add-log-time-format 'current-time-string)
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174
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175 Or `M-x customize RET add-log RET'.
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176
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177 ** In ChangeLog mode, you can now press `C-c C-c' to save the file
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178 and restore old window configuration, or `C-c C-k' to abandon the
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179 changes.
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180
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181 ** The key `C-x m' no longer runs the `mail' command directly.
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182 Instead, it runs the command `compose-mail', which invokes the mail
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183 composition mechanism you have selected with the variable
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184 `mail-user-agent'. The default choice of user agent is
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185 `sendmail-user-agent', which gives behavior compatible with the old
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186 behavior.
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187
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188 C-x 4 m now runs compose-mail-other-window, and C-x 5 m runs
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189 compose-mail-other-frame.
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190
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191 ** When you kill a buffer that visits a file, if there are any
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192 registers that save positions in the file, these register values no
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193 longer become completely useless. If you try to go to such a register
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194 with `C-x j', then you are asked whether to visit the file again. If
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195 you say yes, it visits the file and then goes to the same position.
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196
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197 ** When you visit a file that changes frequently outside Emacs--for
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198 example, a log of output from a process that continues to run--it may
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199 be useful for Emacs to revert the file without querying you whenever
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200 you visit the file afresh with `C-x C-f'.
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201
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202 You can request this behavior for certain files by setting the
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203 variable revert-without-query to a list of regular expressions. If a
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204 file's name matches any of these regular expressions, find-file and
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205 revert-buffer revert the buffer without asking for permission--but
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206 only if you have not edited the buffer text yourself.
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207
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208 ** Gnuserv changes
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209
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210 *** The Lisp part of gnuserv has been rewritten to allow for more
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211 flexibility and features.
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212
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213 *** Many new options and variables are now customizable. Try
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214 `M-x customize RET gnuserv RET'.
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215
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216 *** The functionality of `gnuattach' and `gnudoit' programs is
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217 provided by `gnuclient', which now accepts the standard `-nw',
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218 `-display', `-eval' and `-f' options.
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219
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220 ** Etags changes.
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221
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222 *** In C, C++, Objective C and Java, Etags tags global variables by
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223 default. The resulting tags files are inflated by 30% on average.
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224 Use --no-globals to turn this feature off. Etags can also tag
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225 variables that are members of structure-like constructs, but it does
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226 not by default. Use --members to turn this feature on.
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227
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228 *** C++ member functions are now recognized as tags.
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229
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230 *** Java is tagged like C++. In addition, "extends" and "implements"
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231 constructs are tagged. Files are recognised by the extension .java.
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232
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233 *** Etags can now handle programs written in Postscript. Files are
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234 recognised by the extensions .ps and .pdb (Postscript with C syntax).
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235 In Postscript, tags are lines that start with a slash.
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236
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237 *** Etags now handles Objective C and Objective C++ code. The usual C and
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238 C++ tags are recognized in these languages; in addition, etags
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239 recognizes special Objective C syntax for classes, class categories,
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240 methods and protocols.
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241
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242 *** Etags also handles Cobol. Files are recognised by the extension
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243 .cobol. The tagged lines are those containing a word that begins in
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244 column 8 and ends in a full stop, i.e. anything that could be a
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245 paragraph name.
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246
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247 *** Regexps in Etags now support intervals, as in ed or grep. The syntax of
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248 an interval is \{M,N\}, and it means to match the preceding expression
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249 at least M times and as many as N times.
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250
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251 ** Ada mode changes.
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252
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253 *** There is now better support for using find-file.el with Ada mode.
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254 If you switch between spec and body, the cursor stays in the same
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255 procedure (modulo overloading). If a spec has no body file yet, but
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256 you try to switch to its body file, Ada mode now generates procedure
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257 stubs.
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258
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259 *** There are two new commands:
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260 - `ada-make-local' : invokes gnatmake on the current buffer
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261 - `ada-check-syntax' : check syntax of current buffer.
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262
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263 The user options `ada-compiler-make', `ada-make-options',
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264 `ada-language-version', `ada-compiler-syntax-check', and
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265 `ada-compile-options' are used within these commands.
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266
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267 *** Ada mode can now work with Outline minor mode. The outline level
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268 is calculated from the indenting, not from syntactic constructs.
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269 Outlining does not work if your code is not correctly indented.
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270
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271 *** The new function `ada-gnat-style' converts the buffer to the style of
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272 formatting used in GNAT. It places two blanks after a comment start,
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273 places one blank between a word end and an opening '(', and puts one
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274 space between a comma and the beginning of a word.
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275
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276 ** New demand based locking implementation
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277
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278 A faster, but experimental replacement for lazy-lock (called lazy-shot) is
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279 provided. Like lazy-lock it provides demand based and idle time
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280 font-lock-ing. However the lazy-lock versions that came with previous
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281 versions slowed down XEmacs (possibly quite a lot). Lazy-shot solves
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282 this problem by relying on new support from the C code part of XEmacs.
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283 The support however is experimental and will cause some flashing as
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284 parts of the buffer are colored. This likely to change in the future
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285 as the C support is completed.
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286
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287 The current lazy-shot implementation is mostly interface compatible
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288 with lazy-lock v2.06 (the version shipped with XEmacs is v1.x).
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289
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290 *** To enable:
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291 1. Despite the flashing, lazy-shot was deemed such an improvement by
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292 the majority of beta testers that it is now the standard method
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293 provided by the options menu. Alternatively add
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294
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295 (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'turn-on-lazy-shot)
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296
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297 to '.emacs'.
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298 2. If you were using lazy-lock before, just replace all occurrences of
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299 "lazy-lock" by "lazy-shot" in your '.emacs' file.
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300
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301 *** To disable:
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302
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303 If prefer to use lazy-lock in stead of lazy-shot, put
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304
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305 (remove-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'turn-on-lazy-shot)
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306 (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'turn-on-lazy-lock)
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307
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308 at the END of `.emacs'.
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309
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310 ** RefTeX mode
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311
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312 RefTeX mode is a new minor mode with special support for \label{}, \ref{}
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313 and \cite{} macros in LaTeX documents. RefTeX distinguishes labels of
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314 different environments (equation, figure, ...) and has full support for
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315 multifile documents. To use it, select a buffer with a LaTeX document and
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316 turn the mode on with M-x reftex-mode. Here are the main user commands:
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317
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318 C-c ( reftex-label
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319 Creates a label semi-automatically. RefTeX is context sensitive and
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320 knows which kind of label is needed.
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321
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322 C-c ) reftex-reference
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323 Offers in a menu all labels in the document, along with context of the
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324 label definition. The selected label is referenced as \ref{LABEL}.
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325
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326 C-c [ reftex-citation
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327 Prompts for a regular expression and displays a list of matching BibTeX
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328 database entries. The selected entry is cited with a \cite{KEY} macro.
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329
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330 C-c & reftex-view-crossref
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331 Views the cross reference of a \ref{} or \cite{} command near point.
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332
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333 C-c = reftex-toc
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334 Shows a table of contents of the (multifile) document. From there you
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335 can quickly jump to every section.
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336
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337 Under X, RefTeX installs a "Ref" menu in the menu bar, with additional
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338 commands. Full documentation and customization examples are in the file
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339 reftex.el. You can use the finder to view this information:
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340 C-h p --> tex --> reftex.el
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341
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342
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343 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 20.3
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344 ==========================================
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345
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346 ** Autoconf 2 is supported, making XEmacs more conforming to
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347 conventions used by other free software.
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348
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349 ** `tty-erase-char' is a new variable that reports which character
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350 was set up as the terminal's erase character at the time Emacs was
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351 started.
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352
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353 ** It is now possible to attach the menubar accelerator keys to menu
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354 entries. Look at the Lispref under Menus->Menu Accelerators for
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355 details.
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356
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357 ** `insert-file-contents' can now read from a special file,
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358 as long as the arguments VISIT and REPLACE are nil.
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359
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360 ** `string-to-number' now accepts an optional BASE argument that
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361 specifies which base to use. The default base is 10.
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362
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363 ** The TIME argument to `format-time-string' is now optional and
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364 defaults to the current time.
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365
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366 ** The PATTERN argument to `split-string' is now optional and defaults
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367 to whitespace ("[ \f\t\n\r\v]+").
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368
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369 ** `set-extent-properties' is a new function that can be used to
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370 change properties of an extent at once, and is analogous to
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371 `set-frame-properties'.
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372
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373 ** If a format field width is specified as `*', the field width is
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374 now assumed to have been specified as an argument (as in C.)
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375
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376 (format "%*s" 10 "abc")
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377 => " abc"
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378
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379 ** The new macro `with-current-buffer' lets you evaluate an expression
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380 conveniently with a different current buffer. It looks like this:
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381
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382 (with-current-buffer BUFFER BODY-FORMS...)
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383
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384 BUFFER is the expression that says which buffer to use.
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385 BODY-FORMS say what to do in that buffer.
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386 The old `eval-in-buffer' macro is obsoleted by `with-current-buffer'.
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387
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388 ** The new primitive `save-current-buffer' saves and restores the
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389 choice of current buffer, like `save-excursion', but without saving or
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390 restoring the value of point or the mark. `with-current-buffer'
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391 works using `save-current-buffer'.
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392
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393 ** The new macro `with-temp-file' lets you do some work in a new buffer and
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394 write the output to a specified file. Like `progn', it returns the value
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395 of the last form.
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396
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397 ** The variable `debug-ignored-errors' now works in XEmacs. It allows
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398 one to ignore the debugger for some common errors, even when
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399 `debug-on-error' is t. It has no effect when `debug-on-signal' is
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400 non-nil.
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401
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402 ** The new function `current-message' returns the message currently
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403 displayed in the echo area, or nil if there is none.
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404
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405 ** File-access primitive functions no longer discard an extra redundant
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406 directory name from the beginning of the file name. In other words,
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407 they no longer do anything special with // or /~. The same goes for
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408 `expand-file-name'. That conversion is now done only in
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409 `substitute-in-file-name'.
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410
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411 This makes it possible for a Lisp program to open a file whose name
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412 begins with ~.
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413
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414 ** The regexp matcher has been extended to recognize the following
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415 constructs, borrowed from Perl:
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416
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417 *** Additional quantifiers.
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418
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419 In addition to `*', `+' and `?', XEmacs now recognizes the following
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420 quantifiers:
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421
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422 \{n\} Match exactly n times
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423 \{n,\} Match at least n times
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424 \{n,m\} Match at least n but not more than m times
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425
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426 *** Non-greedy quantifiers.
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427
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428 Any of the standard quantifiers (`*', `+' and others) can now be
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429 followed by an optional `?', which will make them become "non-greedy",
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430 i.e. they will match as little text as possible. Note that the
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431 meanings don't change, just the "gravity."
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432
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433 *** Shy groups.
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434
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435 The \(?: ... \) groups things like \( ... \), but doesn't record the
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436 context for backreferences or future use. This is useful when you
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437 need a lot of groups for the sake of priorities, but actually want to
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438 record only one or two.
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439
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440 ** The new function `regexp-opt' returns an efficient regexp to match
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441 a string. The arguments are STRINGS and (optionally) PAREN. This
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442 function can be used where regexp matching or searching is intensively
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443 used and speed is important, e.g., in Font Lock mode.
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444
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445 ** The featurep syntax has been extended to resemble the Common Lisp
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446 one, as suggested by Erik Naggum.
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447
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448 *** The `xemacs' feature is defined in XEmacs by default.
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449
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450 *** The expression `#+fexp form' is equivalent to
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451 (when (featurep fexp) form), only it is evaluated at read-time. Also,
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452 `#-fexp form' is equivalent to (unless (featurep fexp) form).
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453
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454 *** In addition to symbols, a FEXP can also be a number, or a logical
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455 operator. Here are some examples:
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456 ;; evaluates to non-nil on XEmacs:
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457 (featurep 'xemacs)
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458 ;; evaluates to non-nil on XEmacs 20.3 or later:
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459 (featurep '(and xemacs 20.03))
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460 ;; evaluates to non-nil either on Emacs, or on XEmacs built without
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461 ;; X support:
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462 (featurep '(or emacs (and xemacs (not x))))
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463
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464
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465
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466 * Changes in XEmacs 20.2
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467 ========================
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468
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469 ** Why XEmacs 20.1 is called 20.2
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470
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471 Testing of XEmacs 20.1 revealed a number of showstopping bugs at the
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472 very final moment. Instead of confusing the version numbers further,
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473 the `20.1' designation was abandoned, and the release was renamed to
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474 `20.2'.
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475
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476 ** Delete/backspace keysyms have been separated
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477
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478 The Delete and Backspace keysyms are now no longer identical. A better
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479 version of delbackspace.el has been added called delbs.el.
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480
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481 ** XEmacs 20.0 MULE API supported for backwards compatibility
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482
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483 XEmacs 20.2 primarily supports the MULE 3 API. It now also supports
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484 the XEmacs 20.0 MULE API.
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485
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486 ** The logo has been changed, and the default background color is
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487 now a shade of gray instead of the eye-burning white.
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488
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489 The sample .Xdefaults and .emacs files contain examples of how to
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490 revert to the old background color.
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491
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492 ** Default modeline colors are now less of a color-salad.
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493
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494 ** The `C-z' key now iconifies only the current X frame. You can use
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495 `C-x C-z' to get the old behavior.
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496
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497 On the tty frames `C-z' behaves as before.
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498
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499 ** The command `display-time' now draws a pretty image in the modeline
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500 when new mail arrives. It also supports balloon-help messages.
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501
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502 ** Various commands that were previously disabled are now enabled, like
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503 eval-expression (`M-:') and upcase-region (`C-x C-u')/downcase-region
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504 (`C-x C-l').
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505
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506 ** It is now possible to customize the functions called by XEmacs toolbar.
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507
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508 Type `M-x customize RET toolbar RET' to customize it. Customizations
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509 include the choice of functions for the buttons to invoke, as well as
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510 a wide choice of mailers and newsreaders to invoked by the respective
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511 functions.
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512
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513 ** `temp-buffer-shrink-to-fit' now defaults to nil.
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514
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515 There are unresolved issues regarding this feature, which is why the
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516 XEmacs developers decided to disable it by default.
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517
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518 ** `ps-print-color-p' now defaults to nil.
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519
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520 This is because the new default background color is non-white. The
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521 `Printing Options' in the `Options' menu now include an item that
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522 enables color printing, and sets the white background.
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523
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524 ** `line-number-mode' should be used to get line numbers in the
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525 modeline, and `column-number-mode' to get column numbers. Line
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526 numbers now number from 1 by default.
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527
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528 ** font-lock-mode will now correctly fontify `int a, b, c;'
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529 expressions in C mode.
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530
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531 ** The blinking cursor is always "on" during movement.
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532
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533 ** The XEmacs build process has been changed to make site
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534 administration easier. See lisp/site-load.el for details.
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535
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536 ** Numerous causes of crashes have been fixed. XEmacs should now be
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537 even more stable than before.
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538
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539 ** configure no longer defaults to using --with-xim=motif if Motif libraries
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540 are linked.
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541
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542 There are many bugs in the Xlib XIM support in X11R6.3.
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543
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544 ** A number of new packages are added, and many packages were
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545 updated.
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546
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547 ** Gnus-5.4.52, courtesy of Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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548
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549 *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
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550
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551 *** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
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552 Gnus.
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553
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554 *** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
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555 `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
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556
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557 *** Article washing status can be displayed in the
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558 article mode line.
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559
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560 *** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
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561
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562 *** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
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563
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564 (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
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565
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566 *** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
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567 are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
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568 `gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
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569
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570 *** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
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571
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572 *** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
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573
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574 *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
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575 See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
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576
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577 *** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
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578 Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
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579 used to pick articles.
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580
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581 *** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
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582 another have been added.
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583
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|
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584 `M-x gnus-change-server'
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585
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586 *** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
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587 generating lines in buffers.
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588
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589 *** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
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590 `M-C-_'.
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591
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592 *** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
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593
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594 *** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
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595
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596 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
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597
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598 *** Scores can be decayed.
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599
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600 (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
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601
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602 *** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
|
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603 Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
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604
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605 *** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
|
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606 the native server.
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607
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608 `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
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|
|
609
|
|
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610 *** A new command for reading collections of documents
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|
611 (nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
|
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612
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|
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613 *** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
|
|
|
614
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|
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615 *** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
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616 even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
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|
617
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618 *** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
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619 (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
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620
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621 Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
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622 a group.
|
|
|
623
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|
|
624 *** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
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625 sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
|
|
|
626
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|
|
627 See the commands under the `T S' submap.
|
|
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628
|
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629 *** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
|
|
|
630
|
|
|
631 See the commands under the `G P' submap.
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632
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|
633 *** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
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634
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635 Use the `Y c' command.
|
|
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636
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|
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637 *** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
|
|
|
638
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639 *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
|
|
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640
|
|
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641 `M-x nnmail-split-history'
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|
|
642
|
|
|
643 *** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
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|
644 from incoming mail before saving the mail.
|
|
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645
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646 See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
|
|
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647
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648 *** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
|
|
|
649
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|
650 ** Custom 1.86, courtesy of Per Abrahamsen
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651
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652 The Customize library enables Emacs Lisp programmers to specify types
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653 of their variables, so that the users can customize them.
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654
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655 Invoke the customizations buffer using the menus (Customize is at the
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656 top of the Options menu), or using commands `M-x customize',
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657 `M-x customize-variable' and `M-x customize-face'. Customize can save
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|
658 the changed settings to your `.emacs' file.
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659
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660 Customize is now the preferred way to change XEmacs settings. Tens of
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661 packages have been converted to take advantage of the Customize
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662 features, including Gnus, Message, Supercite, Psgml, Comint, W3,
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|
|
663 cc-mode (and many other programming language modes), ispell.el,
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|
|
664 ps-print.el, id-select.el, most of the programming language modes, and
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|
|
665 many many more.
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666
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|
667 See the "Lisp Changes" section later for a short description of why
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|
668 and how to add custom support to your Lisp packages. Custom is also
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|
669 documented in the XEmacs info manuals.
|
|
|
670
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|
|
671 ** W3-3.0.86, courtesy of William Perry
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|
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672
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673 Version 3 of Emacs/W3, the Emacs World Wide Web browser, has been
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|
674 included. It is significantly faster than any of the previous
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675 versions, and contains numerous new features.
|
|
|
676
|
|
|
677 ** AUCTeX-9.7k, courtesy of Per Abrahamsen
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|
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678
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|
|
679 AUC TeX is a comprehensive customizable integrated environment for
|
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680 writing input files for LaTeX using Emacs.
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|
|
681
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|
|
682 AUC TeX lets you run TeX/LaTeX and other LaTeX-related tools, such as
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683 a output filters or post processor from inside Emacs. Especially
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|
|
684 `running LaTeX' is interesting, as AUC TeX lets you browse through the
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685 errors TeX reported, while it moves the cursor directly to the
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686 reported error, and displays some documentation for that particular
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687 error. This will even work when the document is spread over several
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688 files.
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689
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|
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690 AUC TeX automatically indents your `LaTeX-source', not only as you
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691 write it -- you can also let it indent and format an entire document.
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|
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692 It has a special outline feature, which can greatly help you `getting
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|
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693 an overview' of a document.
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|
|
694
|
|
|
695 Apart from these special features, AUC TeX provides an large range of
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696 handy Emacs macros, which in several different ways can help you write
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697 your LaTeX documents fast and painless.
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|
|
698
|
|
|
699 ** redo.el-1.01, courtesy of Kyle Jones
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|
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700
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701 redo.el is a package that implements true redo mechanism in XEmacs
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702 buffers. Once you load it from your `.emacs', you can bind the `redo'
|
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|
703 command to a convenient key to use it.
|
|
|
704
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|
705 Emacs' normal undo system allows you to undo an arbitrary number of
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706 buffer changes. These undos are recorded as ordinary buffer changes
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707 themselves. So when you break the chain of undos by issuing some
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708 other command, you can then undo all the undos. The chain of recorded
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|
|
709 buffer modifications therefore grows without bound, truncated only at
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|
710 garbage collection time.
|
|
|
711
|
|
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712 The redo/undo system is different in two ways:
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|
713
|
|
|
714 *** The undo/redo command chain is only broken by a buffer modification.
|
|
|
715
|
|
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716 You can move around the buffer or switch buffers and still come back
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|
717 and do more undos or redos.
|
|
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718
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719 *** The `redo' command rescinds the most recent undo without
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720 recording the change as a _new_ buffer change.
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|
|
721
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722 It completely reverses the effect of the undo, which includes making
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|
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723 the chain of buffer modification records shorter by one, to counteract
|
|
|
724 the effect of the undo command making the record list longer by one.
|
|
|
725
|
|
|
726 ** edmacro.el-3.10, courtesy of Dave Gillespie, ported to XEmacs by
|
|
|
727 Hrvoje Niksic.
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|
|
728
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|
|
729 Edmacro is a utility that provides easy editing of keyboard macros.
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|
|
730 Originally written by Dave Gillespie, it has been mostly rewritten by
|
|
|
731 Hrvoje Niksic, in order to make it distinguish characters and integer,
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|
|
732 as well as to adapt it to XEmacs keysyms.
|
|
|
733
|
|
|
734 Press `C-x C-k' to invoke the `edit-kbd-macro' command that lets you
|
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|
735 edit old as well as define new keyboard macros. You can also edit the
|
|
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736 last 100 keystrokes and insert them into a macro to be bound to a key
|
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|
737 or named as a command. The recorded/edited macros can be dumped to
|
|
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738 `.emacs' file.
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|
|
739
|
|
|
740 ** xmine.el-1.8, courtesy of Jens Lautenbacher
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|
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741
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|
|
742 XEmacs now includes a minesweeper game with a full-featured graphics
|
|
|
743 and mouse interface. Invoke with `M-x xmine'.
|
|
|
744
|
|
|
745 ** efs-1.15-x5 courtesy of Andy Norman and Michael Sperber
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|
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746
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|
|
747 EFS is now integrated with XEmacs, and replaces the old ange-ftp. It
|
|
|
748 has many more features, including info documentation, support for many
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|
|
749 different FTP servers, and integration with dired.
|
|
|
750
|
|
|
751 ** mic-paren.el-1.3.1, courtesy of Mikael Sjödin
|
|
|
752 ** hyperbole-4.022, courtesy of Bob Weiner
|
|
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753 ** hm--html-menus-5.3, courtesy of Heiko Muenkel
|
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|
754 ** python-mode.el-2.90, courtesy of Barry Warsaw
|
|
|
755 ** balloon-help-1.06, courtesy of Kyle Jones
|
|
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756 ** xrdb-mode.el-1.21, courtesy of Barry Warsaw
|
|
|
757 ** igrep.el-2.56, courtesy of Kevin Rodgers
|
|
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758 ** frame-icon.el, courtesy of Michael Lamoureux and Bob Weiner
|
|
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759 ** itimer.el-1.05, courtesy of Kyle Jones
|
|
|
760 ** VM-6.30, courtesy of Kyle Jones
|
|
|
761 ** OO-Browser-2.10, courtesy of Bob Weiner
|
|
|
762 ** viper-2.93, courtesy of Michael Kifer
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|
763 ** ediff-2.65, courtesy of Michael Kifer
|
|
|
764 ** detached-minibuf-1.1, courtesy of Alvin Shelton
|
|
|
765 ** whitespace-mode.el, courtesy of Heiko Muenkel
|
|
|
766 ** winmgr-mode.el, courtesy of David Konerding, Stefan Strobel & Barry Warsaw
|
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767 ** fast-lock.el-3.11.01, courtesy of Simon Marshall
|
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768 ** lazy-lock.el-1.16, courtesy of Simon Marshall
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769 ** browse-cltl2.el-1.1, courtesy of Holger Schauer
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770 ** eldoc.el-1.10, courtesy of Noah Friedman
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771 ** tm-7.105, courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko
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772 ** verilog-mode.el-2.25, courtesy of Michael McNamara & Adrian Aichner
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773 ** overlay.el, courtesy of Joseph Nuspl
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774 ** live-icon.el-1.3, fixes courtesy of Karl Hegbloom
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775 ** tpu-edt.el, fixes courtesy of R. Kevin Oberman
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776 ** etags.c-11.86 Courtesy of F. Potortì
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777
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778
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779 * Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 20.2
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780 ==========================================
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781
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782 ** `defcustom' and `defgroup' can now be used to specify types and
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783 placement of the user-settable variables.
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784
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785 You can now specify the types of user-settable variables in your Lisp
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786 packages to be customized by users. To do so, use `defcustom' as a
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787 replacement for `defvar'.
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788
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789 For example, the old declaration:
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790
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791 (defvar foo-blurgoze nil
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792 "*non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely.")
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793
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794 can be rewritten as:
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795
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796 (defcustom foo-blurgoze nil
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797 "*non-nil means that foo will act very blurgozely."
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798 :type 'boolean
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799 :group 'foo)
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800
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801 From a package writer's point of view, nothing has been changed
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802 However, the user can now type `M-x customize RET foo-blurgoze RET' to
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803 customize the variable.
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804
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805 Other, more complex data structures can be described with `defcustom'
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806 too, for instance:
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807
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808 (defcustom foo-hairy-alist '((somekey . "somestring")
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809 (otherkey . (foo-doit))
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810 (thirdkey . [1 2 3]))
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811 "*Alist describing the hairy options of the foo package.
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812 The CAR of each element is a symbol, whereas the CDR can be either a
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813 string, a form to evaluate, or a vector of integers.
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814 New Emacs users simply adore alists like this one."
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815 :type '(repeat (cons (symbol :tag "Key")
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816 (choice string
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817 (vector (repeat :inline t integer))
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818 sexp)))
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819 :group 'foo)
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820
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821 The user will be able to add and remove the entries to the list in a
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822 visually appealing way, as well as save the settings to his/her
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823 `.emacs'.
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824
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825 Note that `defcustom' will also be included in GNU Emacs 19.35, and
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826 that both XEmacs and GNU Emacs will be using it in the future.
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827 Although the user-interface of customize may change, the Lisp
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828 interface will remain the same. This is why we recommend that you use
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829 `defcustom' for user-settable variables in your new Lisp packages.
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830
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831 ** The `read-kbd-macro' function is now available.
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832
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833 The `read-kbd-macro' function (as well as the read-time evaluated
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834 `kbd' macro) from the edmacro package is now available in XEmacs. For
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835 example:
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836
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837 (define-key foo-mode-map (kbd "C-c <up>") 'foo-up)
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838
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839 is completely equivalent to
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840
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841 (define-key foo-mode-map [(control ?c) up] 'foo-up)
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842
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843 The `kbd' macro is preferred over `read-kbd-macro' function , as it
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844 evaluates before compiling, thus having no loading overhead.
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845
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846 Using `kbd' is not necessary for GNU Emacs compatibility (GNU Emacs
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847 supports the XEmacs-style keysyms), but adds to clarity. For example,
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848 (kbd "C-?") is usually easier to read than [(control ??)]. The full
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849 description of the syntax of keybindings accepted by `read-kbd-macro'
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850 is documented in the docstring of `edmacro-mode'.
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851
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852 ** Overlay compatibility is implemented.
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853
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854 The overlay support in XEmacs is now functional. Written by Joe
|
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855 Nuspl, the overlay compatibility library overlay.el is implemented on
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856 top of the native XEmacs extents, and can be used as a GNU
|
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857 Emacs-compatible way of changing display properties.
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858
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859 ** You should use keysyms kp-* (kp-1, kp-2, ..., kp-enter etc.)
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860 rather than the old form kp_*. The new form is also compatible with
|
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861 GNU Emacs.
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862
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863 ** The keysyms mouse-1, mouse-2, mouse-3 and down-mouse-1,
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864 down-mouse-2, and down-mouse-3 have been added for GNU Emacs
|
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865 compatibility.
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866
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867 ** A new user variable `signal-error-on-buffer-boundary' has been
|
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868 added.
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869
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870 Set this to variable to nil to avoid XEmacs usual lossage of zmacs
|
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871 region when moving up against a buffer boundary.
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872
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873 ** lib-complete.el was MULE-ized.
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874
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875 The commands `find-library', `find-library-other-window' and
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876 `find-library-other-frame' now take an optional coding system
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877 argument.
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878
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879 ** Experimental support for Lisp reader macros #-, #+.
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880
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881 The Common Lisp reader macros for feature test are now supported. This
|
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882 feature is present for evaluation purposes and is subject to change.
|
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883
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884 ** `values' now has a setf method
|
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885
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886 ** The `eval-after-load' and `eval-next-after-load' functions are
|
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887 now available.
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888
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889 ** A bug that prevented `current-display-table' to be correctly set
|
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890 with `set-specifier' has been fixed.
|
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891
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892 ** The bug in easymenu which prevented multiple menus from being
|
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893 accessible through button3 has been fixed.
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894
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895 You can now safely use easymenu to define multiple menu entries in a
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896 compatible way, with the added menus accessible via button3 as local
|
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897 submenus.
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898
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899 ** Many bugs in the scrollbar code have been fixed.
|
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900
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901 ** First alpha level support of MS Windows NT is available, courtesy
|
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902 of David Hobley and Marc Paquette.
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903
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904 ** Wnn/egg now has initial support Courtesy of Jareth Hein.
|
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905
|
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906 ** Some old non-working code has been removed until someone chooses
|
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907 to work on it.
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908
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909 This includes much of the NeXTStep stuff. The VMS support is also
|
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910 likely to be removed in the future.
|
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911
|
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912 ** Many files have been purged out of the etc/ directory.
|
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913
|
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914 If you still need the purged files, look for them in the GNU Emacs
|
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915 distribution.
|
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916
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917
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918 * Major Differences Between 19.14 and 20.0
|
|
|
919 ===========================================
|
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920
|
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|
921 XEmacs 20.0 is the first public release to have support for MULE
|
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922 (Multi-Lingual Emacs). The --with-mule configuration flag must be
|
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923 used to enable Mule support.
|
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924
|
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|
925 Many bugs have been fixed. An effort has been made to eradicate all
|
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926 XEmacs crashes, although we are not quite done yet. The overall
|
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927 quality of XEmacs should be higher than any previous release. XEmacs
|
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|
928 now compiles with nary a warning with some compilers.
|
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929
|
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|
930 -- Multiple character sets can be displayed in a buffer. The file
|
|
|
931 mule-doc/demo in the distribution contains a greeting in many
|
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932 different languages.
|
|
|
933
|
|
|
934 -- Although the Mule work is for all languages, particular effort has
|
|
|
935 been invested in Japanese, with particular focus on Japanese users
|
|
|
936 of Sun WorkShop. Many menubar labels have been translated into
|
|
|
937 Japanese. Martin Buchholz, the maintainer of MULE features within
|
|
|
938 XEmacs normally runs XEmacs in a Japanese language environment.
|
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|
939 Some of the other contributors are Japanese, most importantly
|
|
|
940 Morioka Tomohiko, author of the TM package, providing MIME support
|
|
|
941 for Mail and News.
|
|
|
942
|
|
|
943 -- Input for complex Asian languages is supported via XIM, a mechanism
|
|
|
944 introduced in X11R5 to allow applications to get localized input
|
|
|
945 without knowledge of the language. The way XIM works is that when
|
|
|
946 the locale has a complex character set, such as Japanese, and extra
|
|
|
947 minibuffer-like status window appears attached to various
|
|
|
948 application windows, and indicates the status of the input method.
|
|
|
949 Composed input in XEmacs should work the same as with other
|
|
|
950 applications. If Motif and Mule support is configured into XEmacs,
|
|
|
951 then XIM support is automatically configured in as well.
|
|
|
952
|
|
|
953 -- TM (Tools for Mime) now comes with XEmacs. This provides MIME
|
|
|
954 (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support for Mail and News.
|
|
|
955 The primary author is Morioka Tomohiko.
|
|
|
956
|
|
|
957 -- Japanese input can also be input using the `canna' input method.
|
|
|
958 This support was contributed by Morioka Tomohiko. Setting up canna
|
|
|
959 usually requires more user effort (and better knowledge of Japanese!)
|
|
|
960 than XIM, but provides a better-integrated input method.
|
|
|
961
|
|
|
962 -- A mini-tutorial on using Mule:
|
|
|
963
|
|
|
964 -- Every time data passes between XEmacs and the rest of the
|
|
|
965 environment, via file or process input or output, XEmacs must
|
|
|
966 convert between its internal multi-character representation and
|
|
|
967 the external representation (`coding system'). Many
|
|
|
968 difficulties with Mule are related to controlling these coding
|
|
|
969 system conversions.
|
|
|
970
|
|
|
971 -- file-coding-system, file-coding-system-for-read,
|
|
|
972 overriding-file-coding-system, and file-coding-system-alist
|
|
|
973 are used to determine the coding systems used on file input
|
|
|
974 and output.
|
|
|
975
|
|
|
976 -- For each process, (set-process-input-coding-system) and
|
|
|
977 (set-process-output-coding-system) determine the coding
|
|
|
978 system used for I/O from the process.
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 -- Many other things are encoded using pathname-coding-system:
|
|
|
981 -- file and directory names
|
|
|
982 -- window manager properties: window title, icon name
|
|
|
983 -- process names and process arguments
|
|
|
984 -- XIM input.
|
|
|
985
|
|
|
986 -- In many cases, you will want to have the same values for all
|
|
|
987 the above variables in many cases. For example, in a
|
|
|
988 Japanese environment, you will want to use the 'euc-japan
|
|
|
989 coding system consistently, except when running certain
|
|
|
990 processes that do byte-oriented, rather than
|
|
|
991 character-oriented I/O, such as gzip, or when processing Mail
|
|
|
992 or News, where ISO2022-based coding systems are the norm,
|
|
|
993 since they support multiple character sets.
|
|
|
994
|
|
|
995 -- To add support for a new language or character set, start by
|
|
|
996 trying to copy code in japanese-hooks.el.
|
|
|
997
|
|
|
998 -- The traditional pre-Mule data conversion is equivalent to the
|
|
|
999 'binary coding system under Mule. In this case all characters
|
|
|
1000 are treated as iso8859-1 (i.e. characters for English + Western
|
|
|
1001 European languages).
|
|
|
1002
|
|
|
1003 -- many fileio-related commands such as find-file and write-file
|
|
|
1004 take an extra argument, coding-system, which specifies the
|
|
|
1005 encoding to be used with the file on disk. For example, here is
|
|
|
1006 a command that converts from the Japanese EUC to ISO2022 format:
|
|
|
1007
|
|
|
1008 xemacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file
|
|
|
1009 "locale-start.el.euc" (quote euc-japan)) (write-file
|
|
|
1010 "locale-start.el" nil (quote iso-2022-8-unix)))'
|
|
|
1011
|
|
|
1012 Interactively, you can be prompted for a coding system by
|
|
|
1013 providing a prefix argument to the fileio command. In
|
|
|
1014 particular, C-u C-x C-f is a useful sequence to edit a file
|
|
|
1015 using a particular coding system.
|
|
|
1016
|
|
|
1017 -- In an Asian locale (i.e. if $LANG is set to ja, ko, or zh),
|
|
|
1018 XEmacs automatically sets up a language environment assuming
|
|
|
1019 that the operating system encodes information in the national
|
|
|
1020 version of EUC, which supports English and the national
|
|
|
1021 language, but typically no other character sets.
|
|
|
1022
|
|
|
1023 -- Command line processing should work much better now - no more order
|
|
|
1024 dependencies.
|
|
|
1025
|
|
|
1026 -- Many many package upgraded (thanks go to countless maintainers):
|
|
|
1027
|
|
|
1028 -- ediff 2.64 (Michael Kifer)
|
|
|
1029 -- Gnus 5.2.40 (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
|
|
|
1030 -- w3 3.0.51 (Bill Perry)
|
|
|
1031 -- ilisp 5.8 (Chris McConnell, Ivan Vasquez, Marco Antoniotti, Rick
|
|
|
1032 Campbell)
|
|
|
1033 -- VM 5.97 (Kyle Jones)
|
|
|
1034 -- etags 11.78 (Francesco Potorti`)
|
|
|
1035 -- ksh-mode.el 2.9
|
|
|
1036 -- vhdl-mode.el 2.73 (Rod Whitby)
|
|
|
1037 -- id-select.el (Bob Weiner)
|
|
|
1038 -- EDT/TPU emulation modes should work now for the first time.
|
|
|
1039 -- viper 2.92 (Michael Kifer) is now the `official' vi emulator for XEmacs.
|
|
|
1040 -- big-menubar should work much better now.
|
|
|
1041 -- mode-motion+.el 3.16
|
|
|
1042 -- backup-dir 2.0 (Greg Klanderman)
|
|
|
1043 -- ps-print.el-3.05 (Jacques Duthen Prestataire)
|
|
|
1044 -- lazy-lock-1.15 (Simon Marshall)
|
|
|
1045 -- reporter 3.3 (Barry Warsaw)
|
|
|
1046 -- hm--html-menus 5.0 (Heiko Muenkel)
|
|
|
1047 -- cc-mode 4.322 (Barry Warsaw)
|
|
|
1048 -- elp 2.37 (Barry Warsaw)
|
|
|
1049
|
|
|
1050
|
|
|
1051 -- Many new packages have been added:
|
|
|
1052 -- m4-mode 1.8 (Andrew Csillag)
|
|
|
1053 -- crisp.el - crisp/brief emulation (Gary D. Foster)
|
|
|
1054 -- Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el has been ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva
|
|
|
1055 -- psgml-1.01 (Lennart Staflin, James Clark)
|
|
|
1056 -- python-mode.el 2.83 (Barry Warsaw)
|
|
|
1057 -- vrml-mode.el (Ben Wing)
|
|
|
1058 -- enriched.el, face-menu.el (Boris Goldowsky, Michael Sperber)
|
|
|
1059 -- sh-script.el (Daniel Pfeiffer)
|
|
|
1060 -- decipher.el (Christopher J. Madsen)
|
|
|
1061
|
|
|
1062 -- New function x-keysym-on-keyboard-p helps determine keyboard
|
|
|
1063 characteristics for key rebinding:
|
|
|
1064
|
|
|
1065 x-keysym-on-keyboard-p: (KEYSYM &optional DEVICE)
|
|
|
1066 -- a built-in function.
|
|
|
1067 Return true if KEYSYM names a key on the keyboard of DEVICE.
|
|
|
1068 More precisely, return true if pressing a physical key
|
|
|
1069 on the keyboard of DEVICE without any modifier keys generates KEYSYM.
|
|
|
1070 Valid keysyms are listed in the files /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h and in
|
|
|
1071 /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or whatever the equivalents are on your system.
|
|
|
1072
|
|
|
1073 -- Installed info files are now compressed (support courtesy of Joseph J Nuspl)
|
|
|
1074
|
|
|
1075 -- (load-average) works on Solaris, even if you're not root. Thanks to
|
|
|
1076 Hrvoje Niksic.
|
|
|
1077
|
|
|
1078 -- OffiX drag-and-drop support added
|
|
|
1079
|
|
|
1080 -- lots of syncing with 19.34 elisp files, most by Steven Baur
|
|
|
1081
|
|
|
1082
|
|
|
1083 * For older news and for alternate news (the ones dealing with XEmacs
|
|
736
|
1084 19.15 and 19.16), see the file OONEWS.
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