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diff etc/NEWS @ 438:84b14dcb0985 r21-2-27
Import from CVS: tag r21-2-27
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date | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:32:25 +0200 |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Mon Aug 13 11:31:26 2007 +0200 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon Aug 13 11:32:25 2007 +0200 @@ -136,6 +136,21 @@ as this would break the MS-Windows model. If you want this behaviour then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t +** Mail spool locking now works correctly. +XEmacs has always come with a little auxiliary program, movemail, +which moves mail out of the system's spool area into user storage. To +coordinate between XEmacs, the mail delivery agent, and other mail +user agents, movemail needs to properly lock the spool file before +moving it. Movemail now correctly respects the --mail-locking option +to configure. Moreover, movemail's locking behavior can be specified +at run-time, via a new command-line option -m to movemail, or through +the environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD. + +When installing XEmacs, make sure you configure it according to your +environment's mail spool locking conventions. When you're using a +binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the +EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable. + ** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory. These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally ~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs. @@ -144,6 +159,10 @@ is now equivalent to -user-init-file ~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs. +** New variable `mswindows-meta-activates-menu'. +If you set this variable to nil then pressing the Alt key under +MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default is t. + ** Etags changes. *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.