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--- a/CHANGES-beta Mon Aug 13 09:12:43 2007 +0200 +++ b/CHANGES-beta Mon Aug 13 09:13:56 2007 +0200 @@ -1,1663 +1,34 @@ -*- indented-text -*- -to 20.0 final --- Replicating extents are history --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 final --- iso-acc.el updated courtesy of Alexandre Oliva --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 beta93 --- tm-7.101 --- w3-3.0.51 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 beta92 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 beta91 --- func-menu.el-2.45 --- ediff-2.64 --- viper-2.92 --- w3-3.0.50 --- html 3.2 final dtd added. --- Miscellaneous bug fixes --- ps-print.el-3.05 Courtesy of Jacques Duthen Prestataire - -to 20.0 beta90 --- ediff-2.64 --- viper-2.92 --- bench.el-1.2 --- Degenerate extent insertion speedup courtesy of David Moore --- decipher.el (from Emacs 19.34) --- w3-3.0.43 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 beta34 --- backup-dir 2.0 courtesy of Greg Klanderman --- lazy-lock-1.15 --- tm-7.100.3 --- Various patches courtesy of Joel Peterson --- viper-2.91 --- ediff-2.63 --- psgml-1.01 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.0 beta33 --- 20k of new zippy quotes from mly --- By popular demand, `font-menu-this-frame-only-p' now defaults to nil. --- tm-7.100.2 --- Neal Becker's Rosetta Man patch reinstalled --- VM 5.97 --- Minimize displayed help windows to avoid wasted screen space --- Miscellaneous bug fixes --- Java fontlocking update from Bob Weiner --- pcl-cvs update from Neal Becker - -to 20.0 beta32 --- InfoDock man.el --- Fix long-standing race condition in timeout handling (courtesy of David - Moore). --- next-line-add-newlines now defaults to nil --- tm-7.97 --- charset renames for Mule 2.4 and TM compatibility. --- ANSIfication of the code base is mostly completed. --- Random bug fixes. --- Default JPEG image loading is now old tempfile code, but should work again. --- Keysyms now use dashes instead of underscores for compatibility. --- Miscellaneous bug fixes courtesy of Christoph Wedler --- mic-paren.el courtesy of Mikael Sjdin --- lpr.el/ps-print.el - Allow dynamic expansion of - lpr-switches/ps-lpr-switches. --- Lisp Bug fixes --- Install info files compressed (courtesy of Joseph J Nuspl) --- Default locking for Linux is now .lock locking - -to 20.0 beta31 - --- EDT/TPU modes synched from GNU Emacs, should actually work for the first - first time. --- Lots of files synched with GNU Emacs 19.34. --- Apropos mode enhancements. --- locate-library is now silent when called non-interactively. --- Non aggressive keyboard focus throwing is supported. --- Various enhancements from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen. --- smtpmail.el added from GNU Emacs 19.34. --- man.el & man-xref.el added from GNU Emacs 19.35. --- crisp/brief emulation courtesy of Gary D. Foster. --- id-select.el courtesy of Bob Weiner. --- pretty-print.el courtesy of Guido Bosch --- vhdl-mode.el Version 2.73 courtesy of Rod Whitby. - -to 20.0 beta30 - --- Syntax entry specification "e" has been removed. --- updated xemacs.1 man page for new argument list handling. --- updated internals document to reflect new DEFUN macro. - --- (load-average) works on Solaris. Thanks to Hrvoje Niksic. - --- Command line processing now order independent --- Command line like: xemacs file -eval '(munge-file)' - now works. --- Now uses XmIm* functions for XIM input when available --- Major cleanup of configure.in - preparation for Autoconf 2 upgrade. --- `man' directory reorganized. --- The `dvi' and `info' targets now work in the man directory. --- texinfo 3.7 no longer comes with XEmacs. User must supply own - makeinfo or TeX to rebuild info files or to print hardcopy. --- execvp has been encapsulated. The command line of executed - commands now is converted using pathname-coding-system before the - command is run. --- Use flag -fno-gnu-linker if using gcc with dynodump (i.e. on - solaris) --- m4-mode 1.8 --- etags.c 11.78 --- ilisp 5.8 --- cperl-mode 1.28 --- cc-mode 4.322 --- elp 2.37 --- python-mode 2.83 --- load-warn-when-source-newer now defaults to t --- purespace messages from loadup.el now much more reasonable. --- Changed lispref documentation to refer to frame properties, not parameters. --- Synched up files.el: file-relative-name (Steven Baur's patch) --- Fix: shell history works if commands contain non-ASCII characters. --- Fix: shell commands can contain non-ASCII characters. --- Fix: dired on Non-ASCII filename now works --- Fix: repeat-complex-command fails when repeating M-x emacs-version --- tm 7.94 integrated - default in XEmacs/Mule - - Japanese newsgroups now readable without .emacs modifications. --- Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva --- Made startup option processing more sensible - - Eliminate most order dependencies - - more compatible with FSF - - Some additional flags (-V equivalent to -version, -flags == -help) --- Michael Sperber's psgml-html patch --- Makefile rule to create TAGS file now properly creates tags for - DEFVAR_* macros. --- DEFUN macro has major facelift: - - No need to specify both Ffoo and Sfoo - - Arglist is more Lispy - no more K&R style function definitions. - - DOC file creation modified to deal with new style DEFUN. --- X selection code Re-Mule-ized - Should interoperate with other X clients. --- beginnings of TM integration --- When regexp is [^CHARACTERS] and first character of string is - non-ASCII character, XEmacs crashes. Fixed for real this time? --- fixed redundant, buggy calls to (message (format ...)) - In particular (occur "%") now works. --- support for creating .i files (useful for debugging) in src/ --- make src/Makefile.in.in makefile-mode-friendly --- define and use macros XSTRING_LENGTH, XSTRING_DATA, with obvious - meanings. --- eliminate calls to x_smash_bastardly_shell_position. The Xt shell - widget core fields are no longer overwritten with values that Xt - would not have put there itself. --- support for CDE drag and drop of data, not just files. --- XIM patch from Jareth Hein (but XIM still doesn't work for him) --- COMPREHENSIBLE puresize information when --with-debug specified --- if get_eof_char is called without a pty, should not call tcgetattr() --- Fix crash if delete-frame-hook selects the about-to-be-deleted - frame, by calling delete-frame-hook at the beginning of - delete-frame code. --- Fix run-time warnings detected by Sun WorkShop dbx rtc tool. --- possible fix for assertion failure in open-network-stream --- server-make-window-visible more portable --- locate-library now accpts both symbols and strings. --- buffer names in the buffer menus are no longer translated - they - are put into the `suffix' part of the label. - -to 20.0 beta29 - --- fast-lock.el 3.10.01 --- ksh-mode.el 2.9 --- mode-motion+.el 3.16 --- psgml-1a12 --- executable.el, imenu.el, sh-script.el and uniquify.el now included --- rfc1521 patches to VM from Jamie --- OffiX support added --- lots of 19.34 syncing, most by Steven Baur --- NetBSD on sparc platform fixes --- additional featurep checks on 'scrollbar and 'menubar --- configure changes to allow sunos4shr args to be picked up correctly - -to 20.0 beta28 - --- gnus 5.2.40 --- etc 0.22 --- w3 3.0.12 --- reporter 3.3 --- psgml 1a11 --- cc-mode 4.315 --- hm--html-menus 5.0 --- other assorted fixes and changes --- python-mode 2.73 --- minor corrections to sample.emacs --- added localization hook for lisp/locale/LANG/locale-start.el --- face-complain-about-font now offers an Action Plan after whining. --- Editing of filenames encoded in pathname-coding-system now works. --- Characters in current locale displayed properly in frame title and - icon name. --- Characters in current locale displayed properly in menubar. --- Resize frame, then (set-frame-properties (selected-frame) '(left 100)) - would always move to (x=100, y=0) --- {de,en}code-coding-string rewritten - should work now. --- delete-frame-hook docstring warns not to select frame-to-be-deleted --- When regexp is [^CHARASTERS] and first character of string is - non-ASCII character, XEmacs crashes. - Oops ix! Fix undone. Problem still there. --- (XIM) ^G and friends no longer self-inserting --- (Mule) byte-compilation problems fixed --- describe-last-error fixed --- frame 'minibuffer property correctly computed. --- implementation of (set-charset-registry) --- (charset-dimension) now works --- Setting language environment to japanese does - (set-charset-registry 'ascii "JISX0201") --- Fixed encode-coding-string, decode-coding-string --- face-complain-about-font now gives more useful warning. - - -to 20.0 beta27 - --- gnus 5.2.39 --- etc 0.20 --- w3 3.0.11 --- url 1.0.41 --- canna.el patch --- chinese font patch --- stringp nil error when starting sparcworks --- call7 and call8 had incorrect array sizes --- makefile mode Error in `pre-idle-hook' (setting hook to nil): - (void-function makefile-space-face) --- Crashes when built on X11R5 and run on X11R6 fixed --- Lisp backtrace is now printed on all crashes, not just debug build --- XIM input now generates true events. As a result it works with isearch. --- 20.0/Mule can now byte-compile its own elisp files. --- LOTS of typos fixed. --- 20.0/Mule - Language Environment menu no longer shrinks to one element. --- 20.0/Mule - no more Vietnamese language build-time warnings. --- sunpro-init no longer opens /net/bin with possible hang at startup. --- switch-to-buffer-other-window reverted to old-style behaviour --- python-mode 2.72 --- auto-mode-alist regexps reorganized for efficiency --- interpreter-mode-alist regexps now look at entire first line. --- new (interactive) spec `i' can be used to skip arguments. --- dired works in Asian locales. --- (Mule) write-region now works. - -to 20.0 beta26 - --- gnus 5.2.25 --- browse-url 0.38 --- viper 2.90 --- XEmacs web page entries on help menu now reference - browse-url-browser-function --- problem with using dired-mode-font-lock-keywords fixed --- new variable `allow-deletion-of-last-visible-frame' --- NEED_LIBW handled --- glyphs-x.c should really build with older png libs now --- balloon-help crash fixed --- A patch for crash in multiple_change_finish_up which Lars hit. I - don't know if it is fully correct but it should be safe and prevent - the crash. --- some Unixware patches --- some additional SCO patches --- auto-show-mode is now off by default in edit-faces-mode --- incorrect echoing when hitting 'f1 in tty mode fixed --- png build problem fixed --- terminal.el env requirement removed --- gdbglobal doesn't turn on everywhere anymore --- The bug where window-displayed-height didn't always return the - correct value is fixed. The same bug was responsible for - shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer sometimes failing to work - correctly. --- The force option to delete-frame is back. You can no longer delete - the last visible or iconic frame unless the second arg to - delete-frame is non-nil. --- Darrell Kindred's patch fro the ^@ problem --- a number of random elisp changes from Jamie --- --with-cde flag is back --- revert-buffer no longer causes complete refontification in lazy-lock. --- some more options on Options menu, for Printing. - -to 20.0 beta25 - --- w3 2.3.67 --- url 1.0.34 --- ediff 2.61 --- vm 5.96 --- viper 2.89 --- gnus 5.2.19 --- browse-url 0.36 --- corrected modeline overwriting being triggered by using ispell --- fixed crash in tty-mode with edit-faces (again) --- infinite loop when using surrogate minibuffer fixed --- corrected handling of buffer arg to call-process --- SCO 5 patches from J. Kean Johnston --- patch from Bill Perry to eliminate using temporary files when - handling PNG files --- Sun-provided CDE-friendly icon now default XEmacs icon. --- canna support integrated (Thanks to Moroika Tomohiko). --- apropos.el sync'ed with FSF Emacs 19.31 - Fixes the - `Nothing to follow here' problem. --- set-process-filter no longer crashes if the process is dead. --- x-compose.el now works again on Solaris. --- New function x-keysym-on-keyboard-p helps determine keyboard - characteristics for key rebinding: - - x-keysym-on-keyboard-p: (KEYSYM &optional DEVICE) - -- a built-in function. - Return true if KEYSYM names a key on the keyboard of DEVICE. - More precisely, return true if pressing a physical key - on the keyboard of DEVICE without any modifier keys generates KEYSYM. - Valid keysyms are listed in the files /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h and in - /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or whatever the equivalents are on your system. - --- Sun key rebinding changed yet again to use function-key-map. - Type 4 keyboards have r35 mapped to `next'. - Type 5 keyboards already have `next', so map r35 to `kp_next'. --- (Mule) Some menubar items will be translated by default in a - Japanese locale. --- Sun key rebinding changed again to use function-key-map. --- inheritance loops in face property specifications no longer cause - XEmacs to crash. --- minibuffer-setup-hook no longer clobbered by read-file-name. --- extra icons in Info mode removed. --- XEmacs info top level sub-headers synched up with lower-level headers. --- gnuclient prompts you with a dialog box when asking questions. --- the yes/no dialog box now has sane options: yes, no, yes all, no all, - and cancel. --- make-face-bold, make-face-italic, et al. do a better job than before -- - they know about inheritors like [bold] and [italic], and will use - one if their normal X frobbing isn't successful. --- better handling of bad menu filter functions. --- buffers-menu improvements. --- query-replace now disables case-folding if uppercase letters are - in the search string, like isearch does. (To turn both of these off, - set `search-caps-disable-folding' to non-nil.) --- C-h ? ? works. --- Chuck -- you need to re-byte-compile finder.el to fix C-h p under 20.0. - It wouldn't hurt to recompile everything. --- weird bug with markers and standard-output fixed. --- save-options now saves to a file `.xemacs-options' instead of directly - to .emacs. .emacs is set to load .xemacs-options. The file is - loaded with `load-options-file', which will allow eventually for - automatic updating of out-of-date options files. --- Pretty-much everything in that spawn-of-hell file terminfo.c - is commented out now for most systems, since we didn't actually - need any of it! - -to 20.0 beta24 - --- gnus 5.2.12 --- filladapt 2.08 --- fixed padding problem in modeline --- fixed geometry problem with Athena scrollbar; it no longer has any - border and isn't going to at least for 19.14 --- bug where save-places didn't work correctly with a file given on - the command line is fixed --- The global ospeed is completely unused now if TERMIOS is defined. - Before I actually remove the defines (which might fix those header - conflicts) I want some confirmation that doing this doesn't cause - problems in tty mode. This change fixes a crash being seen when - running with the -nw flag on Irix 5.3 (binary built with gcc). --- minibuffer echoing now works properly with surrogate minibuffers --- A number of crashes which were reported when trying to use - surrogate minibuffers are fixed. --- font-lock-add-colors now adds colors and only colors --- --exec-prefix and the other path altering flags should work - NOTE: I have not fully tested it because I would have to do - nothing other than run configure all day to do so. --- It should now work to use XEmacs as a login shell; note that if you - start to stray from a default installation setup this may still be - broken. --- possible fix for Vladimir's crash in Lstream_close(). - -to 20.0 beta23 - --- gnus 5.2.10 --- w3 2.3.65 --- url 1.0.32 --- ispell.el 2.37 --- viper 2.88 --- fixed bug which was leaving modeline droppings next to the scrollbars --- hack from Jamie to make gdb popup a dialog box to answer y/n - questions when using the toolbar --- patch from Bill Perry to eliminate using temporary files when - handling JPEG's --- patch from Bill Perry to support 'pointer extent property --- corrected a bug where annotations in the left outside margin which - were equal to the width of the margin would not be displayed --- Sun keybindings done like in 19.13 - true X keysym always works. --- ispell works - (accept-process-output) bug fixed. --- M-x manual-entry works on SysV with RosettaMan installed. --- process output no longer inserts gratuitious C-d's UNLESS line to - be sent to process is longer than 256 characters. - (This still needs to be fixed so that C-d's are only inserted if - the tty is in canonical mode). --- More type casting fixes to remove compiler warnings. --- Random improvements to the Lisp Reference Manual. --- XIM XCreateIC now always specifies a `Spot Location'. --- If `sparcworks' is not on the PATH, but is in /opt/SUNWspro/bin, - add /opt/SUNWspro/bin to exec-path, and run eos::start. - -to 20.0 beta22 - --- w3 2.3.63 --- url 1.0.31 --- fixed crash in gif_instantiate when starting w3 in tty mode --- fixed crash caused by grayscale jpegs --- patch from Steven Baur to the psgml dtd catalog --- patches to improve Athena scrollbars --- fixes to delbackspace.el --- merged s&m/ files, config*, unex* (mostly), getloadavg.c up to FSF 19.31. - This might fix Lynn's AIX problems. --- better Java font-lock keywords (e.g. tries real hard to fontify - method names in their definitions). --- problems with compiling with --debug=no should be fixed. --- edit-faces in TTY core dump fixed. - -to 20.0 beta21 - --- w3 2.3.61 --- url 1.0.29 --- oo-browser 2.9.12 (adds python support) --- fixed problem with display of right side toolbar --- removed fa-extras.el --- AIX configure patchs --- updated sysdep.el from Bill Perry --- delbackspace.el now uses the new key-translation-map, so it's less - kludgy. --- vrml-mode.el gained some VRML 2.0 support. --- fixed crash in x_output_string triggered by balloon help; this - almost certainly was causing a number of other reported crashes --- fix for "obfuscated and incorrect way of saying 'Solaris'" --- abort() in execute_internal_event() should be fixed --- gnuattach now opens a TTY on *scratch* if given no args. --- gnuattach now passes in the TERM type of the TTY it's run on. --- TTY routines in XEmacs now use filedescs directly instead of FILE *'s; - should fix AIX gnuattach problem. --- VM is smart about whether to install its toolbar on the selected frame - or current buffer. --- new function `set-device-class' (you can say that your TTY device - is color even if it's not apparent from the TERM type) --- selection/unselection of devices/consoles is "idempowered". --- added option for sample.emacs to the Help menu. - -to 20.0 beta20 - --- w3 2.3.54 --- url 1.0.23 --- viper 2.87 --- ediff 2.60 --- more NEWS file updating --- Gnus toolbar is back --- browse-url functions now autoload --- patch from Darrell Kindred to fix auto-show problem with - (set-specifier left-margin-width 10) --- patch from Darrell Kindred to fix isearch buglet --- patch for bad paste of rectangular regions --- fixed crash when starting w3 in TTY mode --- memoize_extent_face_internal() crashes fixed. --- paths.el recomputes salient paths at run-time. --- new function `running-temacs-p'. --- missing functions set-face-strikethru-p, face-strikethru-p added. --- -*- Mode: foo -*- with capital "Mode" wasn't recognized but now is. - (RMS lossage.) --- Obsolete make-cursor added back. --- sample.emacs updated to use new pointer stuff. --- multi-device TTY after X, gnuattach should work properly. --- gnuattach has manpage documentation. --- XEmacs in TTY mode now correctly restores all terminal settings - when exiting. - -to 20.0 beta19 - --- w3 2.3.52 --- url 1.0.21 --- func-menu 2.43 --- pcl-cvs autoloads corrected --- --extra-verbose now implies --verbose as well --- crash in x_get_gc when called from x_output_string should be fixed --- The configure.in code to detect h_errno and sigsetjmp was broken, - unless your compiler supports nested functions (as gcc does). - AC_COMPILE_CHECK takes a FUNCTION BODY, not a FUNCITON, as one of - the arguments. I have some trepidation on making these changes as - there are some comments in solaris header files about disabling - sigsetjmp, but at least the configure test now works - and XEmacs - still seems to, too. --- Sun support in configure.in has been rewritten. SunOS 4.1.1 through - 4.1.4 has been tested. The configure code for suns has been greatly - simplified. --- Xmu detection should now work on SunOS4. - -to 20.0 beta18 - --- pcl-cvs 1.7 ; please test --- w3 2.3.43 --- url 1.0.20 --- ediff 2.59 (again; this should have a higher rev) --- follow 1.6 --- config.guess and config.sub updating; may cause some configuration - problems --- dynamic or lack thereof lazy-lock bug fixed --- word-search-{forward,backward} crash fixed --- easymenu.el patch from Per Abrahamsen --- ClearCase VC support from Rod Whitby --- lib-complete now dumped; improved find-library --- make-x-device patch for TTY mode from Bill Perry --- extent-faces-as-list lossage patch from Bill Perry --- multiple definition cleanup --- mailcrypt update for sgnus --- new function isearch-toggle-case-fold --- new function device-sound-enabled-p --- background.el lossage fixed --- find-dired lossage fixed --- if XEmacs cannot deduce a bold-italic font from the default, try - copying the bold face and doing make-face-italic - if that fails, - try copying the italic face and doing make-face-bold. With the - XResources in the bug report, I get the correct fonts now - please - try. --- default-popup-menu now intelligently greys out its menu items --- don't put up the load .emacs button in the menubar if the file - doesn't exist --- actually let the 'Frame-local font menu' work! The call to - (set-face-font 'default ...) was not specifying the frame as a - locale, so all changes to that face were global. --- more bugs fixed, including some for core dumps. If there are any - remaining core dumps in b18, please yell so that they get fixed. --- `pointer' face works now. --- `colorize-image-instance' changed incompatibly (previously it did - bad things). I don't think this matters because no one seems to - use this function anyway. --- browse-url 0.30 (includes Lynx support) --- updated f90.el --- cperl-mode (although not enabled by default) --- skeleton.el --- improved Linux native sound support --- updated PROBLEMS (synched with 19.30) --- CDE autodetected. --- initial unification of browser-sending support. --- fixes to focus handling -- should fix "delay noticing focus change after VM - invoked" --- uses ncurses if available -- better terminal support. --- if you have color xterm and set your TERM to xterm-color, - XEmacs will use color on TTY's (at least under Linux). - Under linux, TERM=linux or TERM=ansi also has this effect. - (In general, any terminal type that defines color capabilities - in terminfo.) - -to 20.0 beta17 - --- w3 2.3.42 --- url 1.0.19 --- mh-e 5.0.2 --- XIM work from Martin --- electric modes synched up with FSF 19.30(.97). --- func-menu 2.41. --- no cursor blink at eol fixed --- lots more bugs fixed, see the Web page. --- more TTY colors. --- new last-win and next-win icons. --- VRML mode (I wrote it). --- SPC does its previous thingie in the minibuffer. --- curmudgeon mode is removed. - -to 20.0 beta16 - --- w3 2.3.39 --- url 1.0.17 --- curmudgeon-mode: Just so all you curmudgeons will shut up. - `enable-curmudgeon-mode' sets all the old minibuffer, etc. behavior - that you're used to. You can also give a particular category for - curmudgeonization. --- func-menu 2.38. --- enriched.el, face-menu.el from Michael Sperber. --- If you're in a help buffer, you can exit using q and the previous - window config is restored. Help buffers are now selected by default - to make this easier (but you can get the old behavior using - curmudgeon mode). --- `eq' now works on face properties even if they're lists -- the - lists are "memoized". --- numerous bugs fixed -- see the Web page. - -to 20.0 beta15 - -READ THIS FIRST: - --- emacs-version for 20.0 now reports 20.0, not 19.20. This is gonna - break some packages that do incorrect version tests. Both 19.14 - and 20.0 now include the function `emacs-version>=' from emacs-vers.el, - which is a correct version test function. If you want to use this - (highly recommended!), put code in your file like - - (or (fboundp 'emacs-version>=) - [copy definition of emacs-version>= from version.el]) --- Byte code emitted by XEmacs 20.0 is NOT, repeat NOT, downward - compatible. Byte code compiled in any Emacs 19 is upwardly - compatible to v20. (For the most part, that is ...) However, - you can force v19 compatibility under XEmacs 20 by setting - `byte-compile-emacs19-compatibility' to non-nil. --- (This latter change is the result of a better solution to the - "char-int confoundance syndrome" problem, although it was - planned anyway.) - -USER-VISIBLE CHANGES: - --- w3 2.3.36 --- url 1.0.16 --- viper 2.86 --- ediff 2.59 --- cc-mode 4.282 --- func-menu 2.37 --- mailcrypt 3.4 (2.x has been removed) --- The appropriate function-key and arrow-key definitions should - now be set up automatically in TTY mode, for a number of different - terminal types. Please review the terminals in lisp/term/ and - see if there's anything wrong. Also, feel free to supply new - terminal definition files. --- blink-cursor-mode. This gets you the blinking cursor that lots - of people have been wanting for awhile. There is a menubar - entry for this. - NOTE: There is currently a redisplay bug whereby the cursor - won't blink if it's at the end of the line. Hopefully Chuck - will fix this soon. --- wing-psgml-mode: A "grand unified mode" for HTML. I started out - with PSGML, which is a way cool and powerful mode for editing SGML, - but extremely un-user-friendly in its current form. I combined it - with some setup stuff from Alastair Burt and took some stuff - (the template stuff) from the hm--html-menus package. --- improved file-dialog-box; some help from Rich Williams here. --- improved completion-list-mode. (This is the mode for the lists - of completions.) Hit SPC in the minibuffer and you'll end up in - the completion list buffer, and can move around and select things - in a sensible fashion. This should be a friendliness improvement - for TTY mode and such. --- improved edit-faces. It uses the new list-mode also and has - other new user-friendly features. --- auto-show mode is now dumped and is enabled by default. This - will automatically scroll the window horizontally as necessary - to keep point in view. (buff-menu is no longer dumped, so there's - a net decrease in the puresize.) --- There is a menubar entry for Bookmarks. --- `show-message-log' and the associated menubar entry no longer exist. - Instead, use `view-lossage' (C-h l). There is now a menubar entry - for this under Help. --- etags is merged with FSF 19.30 (adding Perl support, among other - things), and some Mly-induced breakage that resulted in pathologically - long relative filenames in the TAGS file has been fixed. --- tcl.el 1.50. --- annoying VM auto-raise of frame is gone. --- I fixed a number of bugs with this-command-keys and C-g. - e.g. the C-x ? C-x C-h bug is finally gone. If you see any more, - please pipe up and I will try to fix them. (A lot of the event code - is rotting, though, so not everything can be fixed ...) Also, if - you notice any weird behavior, *please* speak up! - -BUILD-LEVEL CHANGES: - --- When XEMACS_DEBUG is defined and XEmacs is dumping, the number of - bytes of purespace used by each loaded file is displayed. --- Linux no longer defines BROKEN_SIGIO. --- Linux binutils-2.6.0.10 breakage is no longer. --- fixes for building under SunOS. --- configuring without database support now works. --- you can fix up the autoloads using `make autoloads' in the top - level directory. - -LISP-LEVEL CHANGES: - --- Hyperbole is still broken, sigh. --- function-key-map and key-translation-map are now properly implemented. --- keyboard-translate-table now lets you translate keysyms, e.g. to - fix the grievous damage Sun did to their X keyboards. See the - function `keyboard-translate'. --- The function `window-height' has been changed to return a different - value when a horizontal scrollbar is present. The new definition - makes window-height ``mathematically tractable'': Its value always - reflects the window geometry, and will not change if you turn off - or on the modeline or horizontal scrollbar. Also, now, when there - is only one window, frame-height always equals window-height. --- The new function `window-displayed-height' returns the actual - number of text lines currently visible (making proper allowances - for blank space at the end of a buffer). You should use this - instead of the standard kludge `(1- (window-height))'. --- Hash tables can now do their comparisons with `equal' instead of - `eq'. See `make-hashtable'. --- The `face' property of extents and text properties can now be - a list. --- derived.el has been fixed up and is now dumped. --- cl.el is now dumped. This includes the most basic of the - Common Lisp functionality; the rest is autoloaded. (And with - the lazy byte-code loading, it will come in only as needed.) - Accordingly, I removed the (usually less powerful) XEmacs versions - of `intersection', `union', etc., `delete-if', `delete-if-not', - `push', `pop', `c[ad][ad][ad]?[ad]?r', etc. This should clear - up any remaining problems with ediff and such. Note that the - increase in purespace from doing this is actually quite small -- - about 15K. --- At least one function (`display-completion-list') has been rewritten - to take Common Lisp key-style arguments. This provides a sensible - alternative to having zillions of optional arguments in an - unrememberable order. Other packages might consider doing the - same. --- completion-list-mode is actually defined using `define-derived-mode', - as a sub-mode of list-mode. edit-faces defines another sub-mode - of list-mode. --- some patches from Darrell Kindred. --- new specifier `text-cursor-visible-p' controls whether the cursor - is visible. --- new face `text-cursor' controls the colors of the text cursor. --- New file `gui.el' defining some functions useful for GUI stuff, - e.g. creating dialog frames and buttons. --- The function `extent-at' now takes an argument AT-FLAG controlling - what it means for an extent to be "at" a position. `get-char-property' - and `get-text-property' also take that argument. --- `display-completion-list' has been changed to take key-type optional - arguments. There are keys for controlling the activation callback, - the help string displayed, the window width, and other things. --- New text-property functions `text-property-bounds' and - `next-text-property-bounds' facilitate looking for stretches of - specially-marked text. This supersedes the common, error-prone - loops involving `next-single-property-change', `map-extents', etc. - (I thought long and hard about the end cases.) --- `frame-visible-p' now actually queries the window system, so it - is always accurate without the need for weird kludges like - `accept-process-output'. - -MISC CHANGES: - --- Glyph and keymap lispref documentation should now be accurate - and up-to-date. --- XEmacs uses sigsetjmp(foo, 0) when possible; this avoids lots - of sigprocmask() system calls that were happening. - -to 20.0 beta14 - --- w3 2.3.32 --- XEmacs has a pseudo-file-dialog-box that gets invoked when you - choose a menu entry that prompts for a filename. The code that - implements it is in `mouse-read-file-name-1' in minibuf.el. - It's a pretty cheesy-ass function but it gets the job done. - It clearly needs some work; beta testers out there are encouraged - to help here. (hint, hint) --- there were some missing UNGCPRO's that might have led to weird - crashes. --- Much improved xemacs-internals. More is coming. --- lots of improvements to the Lispref documentation, e.g. the general - section on objects is now actually more or less correct. --- "cursor glyphs" and "cursor image instances" now use the term - "pointer" instead of "cursor". --- new profiling code. See `start-profiling', `stop-profiling', - `clear-profiling', `pretty-print-profiling-info', etc. - This uses a SIGPROF so it's only as accurate as your system timer - (100Hz under Linux on the x86; may be different on other systems). --- I have tried hard to minimize the amount of allocation that happens - as a result of normal activities. For example, `save-window-excursion' - and `save-excursion' no longer result in any allocation in most - circumstances. --- New variable `debug-allocation'. If you set this to non-zero, you - will get a record on stderr of every time that any allocation occurs, - and a short backtrace will accompany it (controlled by - `debug-allocation-backtrace-length'). Normally, set this to 1; - if you set this greater than 1, you'll also see the "noseeum" allocations - that happen internally and are later undone (thus causing no net - allocation). --- byte-code objects print more sanely. They also have an "annotation" - field indicating where they came from. --- problem with lazy-lock sucking away idle time should be gone. --- problem with mouse highlight not appearing may be gone. --- problem with "interactive `e'" incorrect is fixed. --- you can set and access all specifier and glyph variables using - frame properties. - -to 20.0 beta13 - --- mode-motion+.el 3.15 --- hm--html-menus 4.16 --- ediff 2.54 --- viper 2.85 --- w3 2.3.30 --- url 1.0.13 --- nil is once again a valid color instantiator --- 'make install' in a clean workspace should now work correctly. --- Fixed a bug where using proportional fonts for the default face resulted - in an extra-wide frame. --- Fixed wrong-type-argument error when using 'delete window above' from - modeline menu. --- Fixed error when loading nroff-mode. --- Fixed crash caused by this: - (setq toolbar-file-icon '(blah)), then C-x b foo RET --- Error signaled if you try to create a frame with a `.' in the name. --- frame size changes which occur while a tty-mode XEmacs is suspended are - now handled. --- super-apropos is now apropos-documentation ; Help menu has been changed --- tooltalk patch to allow setting of message disposition attribute (from - Hans Muller) --- user-mail-address patch from Russell Ritchie --- DEC OSF 4.0 patch from Manoj Srivastava --- new specifiers default-toolbar-height, default-toolbar-width, - default-toolbar-visible-p, and {top,bottom,left,right}-toolbar-visible-p. - The new default specifiers work like default-toolbar: for whichever of - the four positions is the default-toolbar-position, the corresponding - specifiers foo-toolbar, foo-toolbar-{height,width}, foo-toolbar-visible-p - inherit from the appropriate defaults if no value is given. I also redid - the toolbar size-handling code. This appears to fix the weird problems - Kyle noticed with VM and the prev/next window config buttons, and might - have fixed that elusive VM phantom toolbar bug. - -to 20.0 beta12 - --- gnus 5.0.15 --- cc-mode 4.281 --- now works in TTY mode, yay. --- removed ill-conceived FSF Emacs post-command-idle-hook (added to - XEmacs in an earlier beta). Replaced it with pre-idle-hook. - lazy-lock now uses this. --- added frame-modified-tick for use by lazy-lock. --- cursor overhaul is here. Cursors are now specifiers. Should make - them work properly on multiple devices. Not working quite yet: - colored cursors. I'll get to these. --- various fixes, e.g. to font-lock. --- cc-mode 4.280 --- dialog boxes work again. (e.g. Save-some-buffers from the File menu - works and uses the new-improved map-ynp stuff.) --- I changed `set-specifier' so that it works more sensibly - (like `set-face-property' -- it takes a separate LOCALE and - TAG-SET argument, although the old way of specifying things - still works) and rewrote the incomprehensible gibberish that - masqueraded as its documentation so that it actually makes - sense now, even to someone who's not especially familiar with - specifiers. - -to 20.0 beta11 - --- follow.el 1.5 --- oo-browser 2.9.11 --- hyperbole 4.01 --- w3 2.3.28 --- pretty much all reported bugs for the last betas should be fixed. --- event crash from "M-x followed by mouse click" fixed. --- fixed a nastily subtle bug in `kill-all-local-variables' that has - been around since mly's symbol rewrite some two years ago. This - bug could potentially have resulted in all sorts of inconsistent - and difficult-to-track behavioral problems. --- fixed another nastily subtle bug that had to do with extent - parents/children. This feature should finally work correctly now, - because it's actually being used (in the modeline). --- exported weak list interface (new functions `weak-list-p', - `make-weak-list', `weak-list-type', `weak-list-list', - `set-weak-list-list') so I could test it -- it's used in extents - to fix that nastily subtle bug just mentioned. --- I removed the disgusting "feature" of being able to use `elt', - `concat', `length', etc. on compiled-function objects, and fixed - the small number of places that relied on this. However, if you see - an error of the sort - - As of 19.14, `foobar' no longer works with compiled-function objects - - then I missed a place. - - Note that there are accessors `compiled-function-*' for properly - accessing the contents of a compiled-function object. These - accessors have been around since at least 19.8, so this is not - an overly bold change to make. - - NB: Chuck says the cruddy `aref' stuff is going back into 19.14, - but will disappear for good in 19.15. --- you can now dump faces into the dumped XEmacs. --- modeline changes: - -- The (GLYPH . KEYMAP) and (FACE . FOO) modeline specs have gone - away. In place of this, use (EXTENT . FOO). The face, keymap, - and help-echo properties of the extent are noticed. Nested - keymaps are handled correctly, but not nested faces as yet. - See `modeline-format' and `generated-modeline-string' for - details about how this all works. It's way cool. - -- colored sections of the modeline generally indicate that you can - "do something" with button2 or button3. button2 does something - immediately while button3 brings up a menu. (Clicking button2 - on a non-colored section of the modeline does nothing, while - clicking button3 there brings up the standard modeline menu.) - -- clicking button2 on the "read-only" marker toggles read-only status. - -- clicking button2 on the right half of the buffer ID (the part that - says " foobar.c") cycles to the next buffer. - -- clicking button2 on the left half of the buffer ID (the part that - says "XEmacs:") cycles to the previous buffer. - -- clicking button3 anywhere on the buffer ID brings up a Buffers - menu. - -- clicking button2 on the ID strings of certain minor modes turns - them off (such modes are displayed in green instead of red). - ("Certain minor modes" means minor modes that correctly call - `add-minor-mode' to announce themselves instead of just - smashing minor-mode-alist directly. I've fixed some modes to - do this.) - -- clicking button3 on any mode ID string brings up a menu that lets - you toggle certain minor modes. (#### Should also let you change - the major mode. How do you get a list of all major modes that - exist, sans the uninteresting ones?) - -- clicking button2 on the "Narrow" string of a narrowed buffer - widens the buffer. - -- help-echo is given for all button2 actions. --- save-options wraps its outputted forms in (if (featurep 'foo)) to - make sure that your .emacs will load OK in a differently-featured - XEmacs from what you saved the options in. --- new function `set-face-parent' for properly making one face inherit - all attributes from another. --- `set-extent-endpoints' can be used to move an extent from one - buffer to another. --- semi-new function `event-glyph' returns the glyph underneath an - extent. --- fixed bug in `recover-session' ... tsk tsk beta testers. --- new function `mapc' -- like mapcar but doesn't accumulate results. --- switched back to newer version of paragraphs.el; corrected - filladapt.el to mesh properly with it. --- now autodetects -lgdbm as well as -ldbm, and uses the appropriate - one. The --with-database option takes a comma-separated list - of one or more of "dbm", "gnudbm", and "berkdb", or "no" to - disable. --- autodetects png, both with -lz and -lgz. You can explicitly - call for png with -lgz using --with-png=gnuz. --- autodetects libXmu absence. --- configure option for NO_UNION_TYPE enabling/disabling provided. - It's called --use-union-type. WARNING: GCC (esp. 2.6.0, 2.6.3, - 2.7.0) will probably fuck up and generate incorrect code if - you use this option. --- finally repaired the grievous damage that is `frame-parameters' -- - use `frame-property', `frame-properties', `set-frame-property', - and `set-frame-properties' instead. `frame-parameters' and - `modify-frame-parameters' are still supported but obsolete. - - "Frame properties" are not only a different interface but actually - let you store arbitrary properties along with a frame, and - retrieve them later. - - `frame-property' is much more efficient than `frame-parameters' - because it is non-consing. --- new functions `alist-to-plist', `plist-to-alist', - `destructive-alist-to-plist', and `destructive-plist-to-alist' - to make it easier for you to convert between alists and plists, - such as you might do with frame properties/parameters. --- A whole host of new functions for working with plists. - There is also a parallel set of these functions for "lax plists", - which are plists where comparison between keys is done with `equal' - instead of `eq'. (Frame property plists are this way because the - keys can be strings.) --- The monstrous spawn-of-hell function `display-buffer' has been - moved into Lisp, so you can play around with it if you want - to. --- New functions `push-window-configuration', `pop-window-configuration', - `unpop-window-configuration'. The latter two implement a - Netscape-like forward/back movement through window configurations. - `display-buffer' automatically pushes a window config if anything - changes as a result of the call, so you can easily undo the results - of asking for help and such with just a mouse click. - - PLEASE someone come up with better icons. I just stole the Info - arrows. --- The dreaded FSF dynamic byte-compile format is here. It is *NOT* - repeat *NOT* enabled by default for 19.14, so it's not gonna - break anything. It *IS* yes that's right *IS* the default for - 20.0. (Both kinds of dynamic byte-compiling are the default - for 20.0.) Therefore, files you compile using 20.0 won't be - readable under versions before 19.14 unless you set - `byte-compile-dynamic' and `byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings' - to nil before compiling. Note that 19.14 will recognize - and correctly read dynamic byte-compiled files (whether compiled - by 20.0, 19.14, or FSF 19.29 or above), even though it won't - generate them by default. (You have to set one or both of - those variables just mentioned to non-nil if you want this.) - -to 20.0 beta10 - --- cc-mode 4.273 (includes java-mode from Eduardo) --- edebug 3.5 --- first line display problem on ttys fixed --- problem with cursor position after exiting tty mode fixed --- cheap fix for the filladapt problem; completely backed out the sync - of paragraphs.el with 19.30. One of the changes in - forward-paragraph is causing the problem. --- Faces can now be embedded in the modeline. Add a cons where the - car is a face object and the cdr will be evaluated as usual but the - results of it will be displayed in the given face. --- Glyphs can now be embedded in the modeline, along with a keymap to - make them active. For a glyph which just displays you can insert - just the glyph. To include a keymap, add a cons with the car as - the glyph object and the cdr as the keymap object. --- cut redisplay's memory consumption by 1/3 --- fixed a memory leak in the scrollbar code --- font-lock basically synched with 19.30. - LISTEN UP: I changed the way font-lock faces are initialized. It - now takes advantage of the specifier stuff added in 19.12, and sets - up color defaults for color machines and non-color defaults for - non-color machines. The defaults are added with `append', which - means that if you add your own values, they'll override the defaults - regardless of when you do it. - - SO: Please try temporarily disabling all your font-lock customizations - and comment on what you think of the new defaults. --- major DUH factor. The cause of the 10%-CPU-usage-while-XEmacs-is-idle - was that the "quarter-second timer" was actually set to fire - 1000 times per second. I think I must have changed this at one - point to debug something, and never set it back. Oops ... - If you set `debug-emacs-events' to non-zero on a Linux or IRIX - machine, you'll now see blank eval events going by at a reasonable - rate (4 times per second) instead of spewing out like water from - a firehose. --- yet more synching with FSF 19.30. --- Lots of modes have gained menus. --- recover-session (recovers all auto-saved files) should work. - Not really tested. --- latest apropos.el from 19.30. Implements some of what Hyper-Apropos does. - Maybe we should junk apropos.el or integrate the two. --- `display-buffer' synched with FSF 19.30. This gives you the following - wondrous cruft: - -- unsplittable frames - -- pop-up-frames, pop-up-frame-function - -- special-display-buffer-names, special-display-regexps, - special-display-function - -- same-window-buffer-names, same-window-regexps --- finally! C-h k followed by a toolbar button press correctly reports - the binding of the toolbar button. --- fixed problems with toolbar buttons remaining activated or C-g being - pressed during minibuffer prompting of (e.g.) toolbar Replace or Open --- fixed "Error setting GC pointer" problems. --- text-property problems reported by Alastair Burt fixed. --- ediff minibuffer weirdness fixed. Surrogate minibuffers are working. --- ~ has electric behavior like / in minibuffer. Both of these can be - inhibited by setting `minibuffer-electric-file-name-behavior' to nil. --- minibuffer completion lists are put into a special mode. left, right - move to the next/previous completion. enter selects the completion. - button2 selects, as always, but will always be accurate as to the - completion -- no regexp-based guesswork, as before. --- the kludgy completion-tracking behavior that looks for completions - under the mouse has been disabled. If you want it back, set - `minibuffer-smart-completion-tracking-behavior'. This does *not* - affect the normal ability to click on a completion in the - *Completions* buffer. Turning this off should also fix the obnoxious - "mouse motion causes ange-ftp action" bug. --- ported latest map-ynp.el. Used by `save-some-buffers'. --- Bill Perry's database and strikethru patches. - -to 20.0 beta9 - --- w3 2.3.26 --- crash caused by corrupting toolbar icon specs is fixed --- no one complained, so I removed `local-pre-command-hook' and - `local-post-command-hook'. --- follow-mode 1.5 beta (01-08-96); this lets you turn two side-by-side - windows into one twice-as-long "virtual buffer". --- more synching with FSF 19.30. --- ange-ftp should work. --- new configure option --with-term, for support for TERM (Linux serial-port - multiplexer), for those who care. The support was already present - in XEmacs, just no configure option. --- jpeg code now just includes "jpeglib.h" instead of "jpeg/jpeglib.h", - and configure autodetects likewise. --- new variable debug-emacs-events. Set to non-zero to have all events - seen by XEmacs output on stderr. (From this, I know what's going on -- - it's the 1/4 second timers for when SIGIO and/or SIGCHLD are broken. - It can be fixed, but not until the next beta ...) --- overriding-terminal-local-map and other oddities from FSF. --- added some of the necessary C support for lazy-lock v2. --- ange-ftp works around a Linux FTP problem where it outputs escape - sequences to highlight the ftp prompt, which messes things up. --- I changed a couple ange-ftp defaults: - -- ange-ftp-generate-anonymous-password is t. I see no reason - why you should have to type in a password here. - -- ange-ftp-default-user is "anonymous". This one is more - debatable, but I think it's a lot more logical (more like - ncftp, too) and follows the Principle of Least Surprise. - Differing opinions (except from Kyle Jones :) are welcome. --- Info menu now properly disappears when you exit Info. --- new functions frame-leftmost-window, frame-rightmost-window. --- next-frame and previous-frame have been expanded and unkludgified - to allow you more control over which frames are considered. --- Bill Perry's GIF and PNG patches are included. --- Various patches for the DEC Alpha and other beta-list patches - are in place. --- function to access the raw window tree have been added: - window-first-hchild, window-first-vchild, window-next-child, - window-previous-child, window-parent. These let you implement - frame-leftmost-window and lots of similar functions. --- XEmacs should be more robust about dying properly when crashes - occur. --- you can compile with Epoch support. (Actually, you could in the - previous beta, too.) The main thing this gets you is direct - access to some X events and objects (e.g. properties and - property-notify events). --- you can set initial-frame-alist in your .emacs, and XEmacs will - notice this and change the initial frame accordingly. --- major revamping of the multi-device support: - -- there is a new type of object called a "console". A console - groups together devices that have the same keyboard/mouse. - A "device" now corresponds to an X "Screen", while a "console" - corresponds to an X "display". You don't need to explicitly - create a console; it's created as necessary when you create - a device. - -- device-local variables have become console-local variables. - -- "device types" are now "console types", although functions - that speak of "device types" and "frame types" are defined - as aliases. - -- devices are no longer permanent objects, but remain around - only so long as there are frames on the device. Consoles - behave similarly. (#### not implemented yet; wait for - next beta) - -- Devices and consoles have a generalized concept of a - "connection", which describes what they are connected to - (e.g. a DISPLAY for an X console, a tty name for a TTY - console). Calling `make-device' on an existing connection - returns an existing device and/or console rather than - creating a new one. The code is also quite smart about - determining whether a connection refers to an existing - device or console; e.g. if your machine name is "nene.666.com" - alias "wing.vip.best.com" address 204.156.158.101, then - all of the following display specs are treated as equivalent: - - unix:0 - :0.0 - localhost:0 - nene:0 - nene.666.com:0.0 - wing.vip.best.com:0 - 204.156.158.101:0 - - -- To retrieve a device or console's connection, use - `device-connection' or `console-connection'. - 'device-x-display' and 'device-tty-tty' are no more. - -- 'device-tty-terminal-type' renamed to `console-tty-terminal-type'. - -- To search for a console or device by connection, use - `find-console', `find-device', `get-console', or `get-device'. - - -to 20.0 beta8 - --- w3 2.3.25 --- url 1.0.12 --- viper 2.85 --- func-menu 2.35 --- SCO patches from Robert Lipe --- XEmacs has a man page, finally. --- lots of updates to the lispref docs. --- s/, m/, and configure files synched with FSF 19.30. --- extents-over-strings complete. Extent replicas are no more. - You can get the same functionality by setting the `replicating' - property on an extent. --- describe-mode puts major modes first (from Stig) --- device-local variables are here. A few variables are currently device- - local; eventually the whole command builder will be this way. - New function `symbol-value-in-device'. Functions - `device-function-key-map' and `set-device-function-key-map' have - been removed. `function-key-map' is instead a device-local variable, - with a default `default-function-key-map'. --- XEmacs now preloads all code at dump time (except for some terminal- - or X-server-specific files, for which it's not fatal if they can't - be found). Thus, you can delete the lisp directory if you really - really want to. --- `open-dribble-file' works. --- Info has a pulldown menu. --- function `extent-descendants'. --- you should be able to compile without scrollbars, menubars, and/or - dialog boxes. This has been somewhat tested but may not work with - all possible configurations. More testing would be appreciated. --- there are better feature-tests available: to check for the presence - of menubars, scrollbars, dialogs, and/or toolbars, use `featurep' - with `menubar', `scrollbar', `dialog', or `toolbar'. There are also - features `lucid-menubars', `athena-scrollbars', `motif-dialogs', etc. - etc. for whatever configuration you compiled in. --- SPARCworks CYA message is only displayed if (featurep 'sparcworks). --- lots of other stuff merged with FSF 19.30. Change list: - -- Key changes: - -- C-x ESC -> C-x ESC ESC - -- ESC ESC -> ESC : - -- ESC ESC ESC is "abort anything" (keyboard-escape-quit). - -- indirect buffers. These are buffers that share text with another - buffer but have their own major mode, extents, buffer-local variables, - etc. Create with `make-indirect-buffer'. See also - `buffer-base-buffer', `buffer-indirect-children'. (Not yet - finished implementing.) - -- new function `set-buffer-major-mode'. - -- `buffer-invisibility-spec' controls whether the `invisible' property - is applicable. - -- `inhibit-read-only' can be a list of property values; similar to - `buffer-invisibility-spec'. - -- new "file format" concept. See `buffer-file-format', - `format-alist', `format-decode', `format-encode', - `insert-file-contents-literally', etc. - -- `call-process' can have a separate stderr specified. - -- Junky variables `self-insert-face' and `self-insert-face-command'. - -- `write-region' can take a sixth argument LOCKNAME (a lock file). - -- new function `find-alternate-file-other-window'. - -- improved margin functions -- `current-left-margin', etc. - -- newlines can be "hard" or "soft" -- I guess this affects filling, - paragraphs, etc. See `use-hard-newlines'. - -- lots and lots of filling / justification / paragraph changes. - -- `shell-command' and related can take optional output buffer - specification. - -- `what-line' prints more information. - -- new functions `file-writable-p', `file-regular-p'. - -- new function `active-minibuffer-window'. - -- new function `cancel-kbd-macro-events'. - -- new functions `run-hook-with-args-until-success', - new functions `run-hook-with-args-until-failure'. - -- generalized facility for local vs. global hooks. - See `make-local-hook', `add-hook'. - -- signal-process can take a symbolic name for the signal. - - -to 20.0 beta7 - --- Gnus 5.0.13 --- W3 2.3.24 --- url 1.0.11 --- viper 2.84 --- ediff 2.51 --- added .f90 to auto-mode-alist --- fixed problem with echo area redisplaying during macro execution --- first version of "gnuattach", for viewing a file in the current - TTY frame. Works like gnuclient. I did a "good enough" implementation - because I don't understand fully how gnuserv works. Someone else - might want to take a look at it. --- fixed problems with bad cc-mode indentation --- fixed ^G problems, likely fix for "XEmacs consumes too much CPU" --- undo in the minibuffer. --- problems with tight loop in sys_readdir() should be fixed. --- char-tables are now readable; Bill Perry's eval-when-compile problem - should be fixed. --- the unified range table code is now defensive about getting itself - misaligned, so it should work no matter what tricks realloc() plays. - This should fix the assertion failure, line 621 of rangetab.c. --- next-window, previous-window, next-frame, previous-frame, other-window, - get-lru-window, etc. extended to take a device argument that allows - you to restrict which devices it includes (normally all devices). - Some functions that incorrectly ignored frames on different devices - (e.g. C-x 0) are fixed. --- start-open, end-open, start-closed, end-closed now work correctly - w.r.t. text properties. (This is apparently required by GNUS 5.) --- implementation of extents over strings is close to being done. - You can now go ahead and create extents over strings but they aren't - yet properly copied from string to string or between strings and buffers. --- new function `extent-list'. - -to 20.0 beta6 - --- Gnus 5.0.12 --- w3 2.3.18 --- viper 2.82 --- ediff 2.49 --- lazy-lock 1.14 --- func-menu 2.34 --- mode-motion+ 3.14 --- patch from Bill Perry fro tty_valid_color_name_p --- mode-motion patch from Michael Sperber to eliminate "evil ftp activity" --- we check for interrupted system calls in opendir(), readdir(), - closedir(); this should eliminate the "interrupted-system-call" - errors people have been seeing with completion. --- GIF support! Since there appears to be no standard GIF library, - and since the code I found (giflib-2.2 from the Linux archives) - is quite small, I just put it in the XEmacs src directory. - NOTE: If you encounter problems with certain GIFs (e.g. interlaced), - let me know and I'll enable some currently dormant code. - NOTE: For the moment, GIF support is enabled everywhere because it - requires no special libraries or machine-dependent features. You - can disable it using --with-gif=no. --- JPEG support! Compile with --with-jpeg (or just let it be - autodetected). You need to obtain the standard JPEG library (libjpeg) - from the Independent JPEG Group. One source is ftp.uu.net:/graphics. - Compiled Linux libraries (not the most recent version, but they work - fine) are available at sunsite.unc.edu:/libs/graphics. You have to - specify the location of the libraries and include files using - --site-libraries and --site-includes. Note that the include files - are presumed to be in a subdirectory "jpeg" of the --site-includes - directory. --- Lstreams free their buffers when they are closed rather than - when they are GC'd. This should avoid the memory bloatage noticed - when you repeatedly insert a lot of files, and should render - unnecessary the patch that Darrell Kindred submitted. --- patch for possibly deadly Mule problem --- XEmacs behaves reasonably in the presence of a bogus app-defaults - file --- configure debugging: if you specify --extra-verbose, then any - error messages from compilation and preprocessor feature tests - will be output. This is especially useful if your feature tests - are failing for no obvious reason. #### Suggestions for a better - name than --extra-verbose are welcome. --- warning messages will get generated if there is a problem displaying - an image, rather than just nothing happening at all. --- You can disable toolbar support by specifying --with-toolbars=no. - This should reduce the code size a bit. --- You can disable TTY support by specifying --with-tty=no. - This should reduce the code size a bit. --- The oddly named "dont-have-xmu=yes" option is now "with-xmu=no". --- loaddefs and keydefs are now compiled like other Lisp files. --- You should get more accurate errors for many types of mistakes - with set-face-* functions. - -to 20.0 beta5 - --- Gnus 5.0.7 --- w3 2.3.4 --- url 1.0.3 --- patches from John Hughes <john@atlantech.com> to make 8-bit TTY - input and TTY function keys work better. You may get undefined - references to _sobuf; if so, change the glump around line 1404 - of sysdep.c. (for 19.14.) --- configure autodetects the sun_len member in struct sockaddr_un. - (for 19.14.) --- likely fix for regex crashes on some systems. (for 19.14.) --- fixed problems with skip-syntax-forward. (for 19.14.) --- TTY color should behave better. (for 19.14.) - Try this under TTY XEmacs and you'll see what I mean: - - (set-face-foreground 'default "magenta") - (set-face-background 'default "cyan") - -to 20.0 beta4 - --- cutting and pasting of extended text to/from other applications works - properly: the text is correctly converted to/from Compound Text format. --- Short-form fonts like 6x13 should work under Mule. --- New configure option --with-mocklisp for Mocklisp support. (for 19.14.) --- TTY support should now be working properly under Mule. - If you are running under kterm, you should see the Japanese - characters in the tutorial properly. --- TTY colors! New functions `register-tty-color', `unregister-tty-color', - `find-tty-color', and `tty-color-list' for specifying the valid TTY - colors. Of course, you need a terminal that is capable - of handling ANSI color sequences, e.g. Color XTerm or the Linux console. - The standard ANSI colors (black, red, green, yellow, blue, cyan, - magenta, and white) are registered by default so you can just go - ahead and use them. (for 19.14.) --- Netscape begone! XEmacs *really* handles colors properly given a - full colormap. (for 19.14) - -to 20.0 beta3 - --- new version of f90.el; .f90 files now invoke f90-mode --- hm--html-menus 4.15 --- w3 2.3.2 --- url 1.0.1 --- Japanese input (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) is working under Mule. - The SKK input method has been ported and should be available - on the ftp site. - - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - WE NEED BETA TESTERS. - - Tell all your Japanese-speaking friends. - Where are all the Japanese-speaking people when we need them? - Actually, with a little work, someone should be able to get - Quail working, which allows for input of all sorts of languages. - --- new function `current-process-time' for retrieving the user, system, - and real times of the currently running XEmacs process. (for 19.14 - probably.) --- Here's a cool new demo that works under Mule: Load the file - `mule-doc/demo'. This has "hello" written in a zillion different - languages / charsets. Astute observers will notice two problems: - (1) Half of the Thai characters don't show up. That's because - composite characters still aren't displayed properly. - (2) The Arabic and Hebrew characters go backwards from the way - they should. (Guess why?) --- error-handling behavior in Mule decoding (e.g. unknown charset) - should be much better. The goal here is that there should never be - any information lossage when a file is read in, decoded, encoded - again, and written out. If escape sequences get transformed into - some other equivalent escape sequence, that is OK; but if they - get eaten, that is not OK. --- translation tables are handled consistently (note, I didn't say - "correctly") under Mule. Doing them correctly is very difficult - so I'm punting for now. Basically, under Mule, `upcase' and - `downcase' (and related) work correctly with translation tables - but the string/buffer-searching routines will ignore translations - that map to or from a character not in the seven-bit ASCII - range -- thus `case-fold-search' will not correctly conflate - a-umlaut and A-umlaut. This sucks, but it's better than the - alternative (weird results and possible crashes). --- regex searches/matches should work properly with extended - chars under Mule. --- fixed bad definition of xemacs-color-device in ps-print.el. - (for 19.14.) --- fixed problems with command-line options -T, -wn, etc. not - working. (for 19.14.) --- Options sub-menu provided under Mule for setting the current - language environment. --- fixed some problems with nested GCPRO's, that could have lead to - weird crashes. (for 19.14.) --- Things should *finally* work OK on the Alpha machines. - (Hopefully? Please?) (for 19.14.) --- Tooltalk warning is now a real warning (class `tooltalk'), so - you can suppress it. --- selections should work again. (for 19.14.) --- syntax tables work under Mule. - - NOTE: Syntax tables are *NOT* vectors any more but are their own - abstract `char-table' type. As such, some (broken) code is going - to break. (Typical error: "wrong type argument: sequencep, - #<syntax-char-table ...>".) I've already had to patch cc-mode, - font-lock, mail-abbrevs, and symbol-syntax, and edebug, mim-syntax, - and paren still need to be changed. This is an unavoidable result - of RMS non-abstracted brokenness. Yuck Yuck Yuck Yuck! --- syntax table lookup should be faster (at least under non-Mule). - This could be a big win for scan-lists etc., and thus for cc-mode. --- fixed version of set-text-properties. (for 19.14.) --- fixes to display-warning-buffer to avoid problems when the - warning buffer is deleted. (for 19.14.) --- If a font can't be instantiated, you should now only get one - warning instead of a trillion of them. --- new Common-Lisp function `subseq', a generalization of `substring'. - -to 20.0 beta2 - --- new functions `function-min-args' and `function-max-args' for - determining the number of allowed arguments in a function - (of any sort accepted by funcall). (possibly for 19.14.) --- no more crashes under Mule if it can't find an acceptable font; - you just get a warning instead and a '~' character. --- new variable `disable-auto-save-when-buffer-shrinks', providing - you with a way to turn off this widely-hated behavior. (for 19.14.) --- new Common Lisp function `reduce'. --- I added some defines that should eliminate zillions of - "warning, incompatible pointer type" warnings for the memset(), - memcpy(), memcmp() functions in SunOS 4.x. (for 19.14.) --- composite characters are partially working under Mule. They are - correctly handled internally, but are not yet displayed properly: - you just get the familiar '~'. --- processes should now correctly do flushing of long PTY lines, - which they never did since the Lstream process rewrite sometime - during the 19.12 beta cycle. --- processes should be working better under Mule (at least there - will be no loss of data, which was a possibility before). More - work still to come in the area of handling encoding/decoding. --- fixes to font-lock that should make it go *much* faster (esp. in - lazy-lock) when moving backwards or jumping to an arbitrary point - in the buffer. Files like emacsfns.h are still problematic but - should be better than before. (for 19.14.) - -to 20.0 beta1 - --- ediff 2.44 --- hyperbole 3.19.08 --- oobr 2.9.9 --- I_SETSIG failed messages under Solaris should be gone --- add-submenu bug that affected func-menu fixed --- edebug no longer chokes on condition-cases --- redisplay under Mule should be significantly faster --- redisplay problem with overlay-arrows fixed --- range tables now print readably, using the new - Common-Lisp-compatible #s() syntax (this is the - generalized structure syntax). It would be possible - to make other unreadable Lisp objects be readable - using a similar format. I am not sure which objects - are good candidates, though -- suggestions? - -to 19.14 beta2 - --- w3 2.2.17 --- mailcrypt 3.4 is now the default --- new version of icomplete.el from David Hughes --- characters are now their own separate Lisp object type; this is - The Way It Should Have Always Been. This change is necessary for - byte-code portability under Mule and follows the Common Lisp model - of not needlessly confounding separate types, as is (unfortunately) - the fashion under E-Lisp. Characters print as characters using the - evil yucky GNU Emacs character syntax (e.g. ?a) rather than as - integers; this is the essence of the byte-code portability. In - deference to existing E-Lisp code, the following concessions are made: - - -- characters are represented directly; `eq' works on them. - (Yuck! This may be a problem if I ever want to add additional - information to characters.) - -- the comparison functions (<, =, etc) and arithmetic functions - (+, -, etc) accept characters and silently convert them to - integers. (This is semi-hateful but necessary for compatibility.) - -- functions that properly accept characters (e.g. char-to-string) - also accept integers and silently convert them to characters. - - I have provided new character primitives `char<', `char=', etc. - that are the proper way of comparing characters. --- The function `eq' has been infected with a heretofore-unknown virus - known as the "char-int confoundance disease". The CDC has been - warned, but in this case the cure (require that all existing .elc - files in the whole world be re-byte-compiled) is a lot worse than - the disease. Their recommendation is to use the new function - `really-eq' if you really need to distinguish between chars and ints. - Be warned, however, that this will run slower in byte-compiled code - because there is no opcode for `really-eq'. --- Similar infections have happened to `equal' (with a corresponding - `really-equal') and to the functions `memq', `delq', `assq', - `rassq', `remassq', `remrassq' and corresponding `equal' - equivalents. The functions `puthash' and `put-range-table' have - not been affected, however, because I don't think there will be much - of a compatibility problem here. --- BETA TESTERS LISTEN UP: The above changes have the potential of - causing weird lossage in existing packages. Therefore, PLEASE - PLEASE do the following for as many different packages as you can: - (1) try it out to make sure there's no obviously strange behavior - (a good example would be the error - "wrong type argument: integerp, ?B") or not-so-obviously - strange behavior, like prefix arguments not working - (yes, this did happen). - (2) re-byte-compile all the files in the package - (3) repeat step #1. Look especially hard this time because - the errors are more likely to occur this time. --- typecheck error-checking has been added for integers and for chars. - You may hit some aborts. --- XEmacs/Mule now performs automatic detection, encoding, and decoding - of files upon input and output. (Although the detection system definitely - has room for improvement.) --- XEmacs/Mule is still untested w.r.t. subprocesses and TTY support and - thus is likely to fail with both. --- XEmacs/Mule now byte-compiles files properly. (Well, it appears to ... - extensive testing has not yet been done.) - WARNING WARNING WARNING: - (a) You cannot compile files with extended characters in them - (e.g. lisp/mule/japanese-hooks.el) using a version of XEmacs - not compiled with Mule. - (b) If you compile such a file using XEmacs/Mule and attempt to - load it into a version of XEmacs not compiled with Mule, - you will get extremely random and undesirable results even - if you don't get a read error. The reason for this is that - a special encoding is used to allow arbitrary binary characters - to co-exist with the control characters used to change - the encoding state. Normal E-Lisp files compiled under - XEmacs/Mule should work under a non-Mule XEmacs because the - special encoding will not be used in this case. - At some point I would like to remove these gotchas but this will - require adding some smarts to the non-Mule XEmacs to be able to - at least partially handle the special encodings used. --- Here is a cool test of XEmacs/Mule: type 'C-h T' (capital T) and - you can get an Emacs tutorial in the language of your choice - (currently limited to Japanese, Korean, and Thai). Astute - testers will notice that the Thai one doesn't work yet; that - requires support for composite characters, which doesn't currently - exist. --- a change has been made to the handling of markers that should - eliminate those 15-second GC pauses that some of you may have - been seeing while processing the output of M-x grep, etc. - -to 19.14 beta1 - --- w3 2.2.16 --- mailcrypt 3.4beta --- preliminary Mule support is provided. This will get better over the - next month or so. All of the basics except for input method support - are there, although it's still somewhat slow and some of the parts - may not fit together perfectly. - - Here's a demonstration you can do when Mule support is enabled: - - -- load the file etc/mule/TUTORIAL.jp - -- evaluate (decode-coding-region 1 (point-max) 'ctext) - - In order for this to work, you have to have the proper Japanese - fonts installed (see below), or XEmacs will abort. (This will be fixed.) - - Soon, the decoding will happen automatically upon loading. - - Note also: IT MIGHT NOT CURRENTLY WORK TO BYTE-COMPILE FILES UNDER - XEmacs/Mule. You may get bogus results. Therefore, for the time - being do *not* do `make all-elc' using the built XEmacs/Mule. - This should be fixed by beta2, along with the rest of the file- - handling stuff. - - Note finally: You may get read errors trying to byte-compile the - Mule files under the non-Mule Xemacs. I have not yet come up with - a general solution to this problem. (I'm not convinced such a - solution even exists; byte-compiling could cause arbitrary code - to be executed, which will surely fail if the code uses Mule- - specific features.) --- We now may have the world's largest collection of FTP-able - international X11 fonts. Look in cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/xemacs/beta/fonts. - See the README file for directions on installing the fonts. There - is also the potential for generating loads and loads more of these - fonts, by converting MetaFont fonts. --- It is now possible to build simultaneously in the source directories - and in a separate build location, provided you have GNU make and - supply the `--with-gnu-make' option to configure. --- Support for bit vectors is now provided. Bit vectors are like regular - vectors except that the only allowed values for elements are 0 and 1, - and they are stored internally using bit fields instead of arrays - of 32-bit values, making them much less heavyweight. New primitives - for working with bit vectors are `bit-vector', `make-bit-vector', - `bit-vector-p', and `bvconcat' (equivalents of `vector', `make-vector', - `vectorp' and `vconcat'). All other vector primitives should work - fine with bit vectors. --- new specifier functions `specifier-matching-instance', - `specifier-matching-instance-from-inst-list', and - `valid-specifier-matchspec-p', for working with fonts in XEmacs/Mule. - These same functions could be used to provide much more flexible - handling of display tables and the like, and this work may get done - if there is demand for it. --- The handling of PURESIZE has been fixed up. There is no longer - special stuff needed in m/alpha.h. Alpha users may need to tweak - with puresize.h. --- You can now build statically on Linux. Doing this will allow you - to get proper backtraces. (Shared libraries are typically built - -fomit-frame-pointer, which screws everything up.) --- I have removed almost all of the MAC_* stuff and replaced it with - inline functions. configure attempts to detect whether your compiler - supports `inline'. However, if your compiler does support it - but is not GCC, you should look at how I've done things and see - if it meshes with your compiler. Basically, GCC has a nice feature - where you can declare a function `extern inline' and stick it in - a header file. This will cause the inline declaration to be - used if the function can be inlined, and an external reference to - be generated otherwise. Then, you define the function just - `inline' in one single file (inline.c). This is superior to the - method of declaring all inline functions as `static inline', which - could leave a separate copy of each function in lots of source - files. However, I'm not sure if non-GCC compilers support this. - Please read your compiler's documentation and fix up the definition - of INLINE in config.h.in accordingly. - - Also, there may be functions that would really benefit from inlining, - which you can sometimes specify as an option to your compiler. - We will have Quantify information on this. --- XEmacs now uses the v19 regex routines instead of the v18 regex - routines. Speed should not be significantly different due to the - non-Posix-backtracking default. If you want the full Posix - backtracking, use the functions `posix-looking-at', `posix-string-match', - etc. (Be warned that this may be significantly slower.) Note also - that the fishy problems may be forever banished. - - NOTE: The v19 regex routines do reallocs using rel-alloc if it is - available; God only knows why. If you notice some weird hiccups in - the regex routines, this is a likely culprit. Someone might want to - try putting '#undef REL_ALLOC' at the top of regex.c or something. - RMS also claims that much of the stuff that's going on here (recording - backtracking points) is only necessary for full Posix backtracking, - and thus we should be able to disable it in the normal (non-Posix) - case. --- XEmacs now caches compiled regexps. This may speed up regex searching. --- `replace-match' now takes a fourth argument STRING that allows for - replacement in a string instead of a buffer. --- new functions `upcase-initials' and `upcase-initials-region' from - FSF Emacs 19.29. --- match data is automatically saved and restored while a process filter - or sentinel is running. --- new type "char-table". A char table is for indexing characters and - is intended to be an extension/generalization of syntax tables, - display tables, case tables, category tables (a new kind of beast - allowing classifications of characters into categories for regexp - lookup, useful esp. for Mule), etc. You can set values for - an entire charset and for individual rows of a charset. Adding - and looking up values occurs in constant time. --- new type "range-table". A range table efficiently indexes ranges of - integers to values. --- new modeline spec '%C'; displays a mnemonic string for the - file-coding-system, under Mule. --- new function `device-on-window-system-p'; clean way of determining - whether mouse, glyph, etc. support is likely to be available on this - device. - #### We really need individual feature-test functions. --- new dialog-box functions `get-dialog-box-response' (like the misnamed - `x-popup-dialog' FSFmacs function), `message-box' (like the FSFmacs - function), and `message-or-box' (like the FSFmacs function). +to 20.1 beta1 +-- New symbol `signal-error-on-buffer-boundary'. Set to nil to avoid + lossage of zmacs region when moving against buffer boundaries. +-- python-mode.el-2.89 Courtesy of Barry Warsaw +-- added mouse-[123] and down-mouse-[123] Emacs-compatible keysyms +-- Clicking on `**' buffer modified status in mode-line now works the same + way as C-x C-q. +-- Miscellanous bug fixes from a number of people +-- mine.el-1.17 Courtesy of Jacques Duthen [New] +-- fast-lock.el-3.10.2 Courtesy of Simon Marshall +-- browse-cltl2.el-1.1 Courtesy of Holger Schauer [New] +-- eldoc.el-1.8 Courtesy of Noah Friedman [New] +-- webjump.el-1.4 Courtesy of Neil W. Van Dyke [New] +-- mime-setup is no longer dumped on SunPro/MULE. +-- Canna coredump fixed +-- verilog-mode.el Courtesy of Michael McNamara & Adrian Aichner [New] +-- overlay.el Courtesy of Joseph Nuspl [New] +-- hm--html-menus-5.1 Courtesy of Heiko Muenkel +-- tm-7.105 Courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko +-- Initial port of edmacro.el courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic [New] +-- Native sound support for FreeBSD Courtesy Dick van den Burg +-- Correct detection of GIF89, and implement detection of PNG +-- efs-1.15 courtesy of Andy Norman and Michael Sperber [New] +-- Easy customization of toolbar support courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic +-- balloon-help-1.03 courtesy of Kyle Jones [New] +-- 'compatible byte compiler warning type added and turned off by default +-- redo.el-1.00 courtesy of Kyle Jones [New] +-- floating-toolbar.el courtesy of Kyle Jones [New] +-- Initial Wnn/egg support and bug fixes courtesy of Jareth Hein [New] +-- Gnus-5.4.12 Courtesy of Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [Upgrade] +-- custom-1.39 Courtesy of Per Abrahamsen [New] +-- W3-3.0.59 Courtesy of William Perry +-- VM-6.13 Courtesy of Kyle Jones [Upgrade]