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diff CHANGES-beta @ 331:c9ae480b1fff r21-0-63
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--- a/CHANGES-beta Mon Aug 13 10:48:42 2007 +0200 +++ b/CHANGES-beta Mon Aug 13 10:49:07 2007 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -*- indented-text -*- -to 21.0 "Pyrenean" +to 21.0 "Pyrenean63" +-- miscellaneous bug fixes + +to 21.0 "Pyrenean62" -- 21.2 sync of mswindows and package fixes that got away. to 21.0 "Poitou61" @@ -223,1163 +226,3 @@ -- Various warning fixes from Martin Buchholz -- face fix from Andy Piper -- Various MS Windows fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- etags.c-13.6 courtesy of Francesco Potortì --- FreeBSD 2.2.6 now supports LC_ALL from Kazuyuki IENAGA --- Toolbar fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- Ignore most recent libtiff from Martin Buchholz --- minor mode menu cleanup from Hrvoje Niksic --- OpenBSD support from Hans Guenter Weigand --- MS Windows NT process fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz --- MS Windows toolbar hasing fix from Andy Piper --- MS Windows cursor resources update from Andy Piper --- AIX initialization fixes from Michael Sperber --- Startup optimization from Michael Sperber --- MS Windows cursor initialization from Kirill Katsnelson --- miscellaneous patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- 64 bit clean fixes from Olivier Galibert --- Interactive compiled functions and anonymous forms fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous cleanup fixes from Altrasoft - -to 21.0 beta40 "Saanen" --- Vertical divider hacking from Didier Verna and Kirill Katsnelson --- Bind cut'n'paste keys to generic functions from Jonathan Harris --- MS Windows toolbar size fix from Andy Piper --- Icons from MS Windows resources from Andy Piper --- New function `windows-text-lines-pixel-height' from Greg Klanderman --- Window beats buffer in specifiers from Kirill Katsnelson --- Dialog box as a dialog box from Kirill Katsnelson --- More DnD fixes from Oliver Graf --- NEWS updates from Hrvoje Niksic --- More device metrics from Kirill Katsnelson --- Miscellaneous patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Documentation updates from Christian Nybø --- More vertical divider fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- New function zap-up-to-char, behaves like zap-to-char in Emacs 18 --- Toolbar fixes from Andy Piper --- Miscellaneous MS Windows fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- vertical divider shadow thickness specifier from Didier Verna --- More device metrics from Kirill Katsnelson --- Minibuffer synch with FSF Emacs from Michael Sperber --- DnD fixes from Oliver Graf --- decode-path cleanup from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- clear region bg pixmap fixes from Andy Piper --- Various cleanup patches from Martin Buchholz --- miscellaneous code cleanup --- with-display-help-buffer fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Draggable vertical dividers from Kirill Katsnelson --- More MS Windows DnD support from Jonathan Harris --- Reversion to old key descriptions from Hrvoje Niksic --- DnD updates from Oliver Graf --- Fix mouse(-pixel)?-position from Kirill Katsnelson --- More device metrics fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- background pixmaps for MS Windows from Andy Piper --- various build fixes from SAKIYAMA Nobuo and Kirill Katsnelson --- Fix for non-interruptible re_search from Hrvoje Niksic --- miscellaneous fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- focus frame fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Really apply Kyle Jones' realpath fixes (sorry). - -to 21.0 beta39 "Russian White" --- DnD fixes from Oliver Graf and Jonathan Harris --- scrollbar visibility and placement specifiers from of Kirill Katsnelson --- x-toolbar.el and x-menubar.el renamed to toolbar-items.el and - menubar-items.el --- Device metrics from Kirill Katsnelson --- Frame redraw smoothing fix from Kirill Katsnelson --- MS Windows transparency handling from Andy Piper --- XEmacs FAQ update from Christian Nybo --- MS Windows build fix for minimal tagbits, etc. from Kirill Katsnelson --- Fix cancelling directory creation prompt from Hrvoje Niksic --- cygwin build fixes from Andy Piper --- Restore oo-browser etags.c as ootags.c --- Socket connections for Windows from Kirill Katsnelson --- region limiting fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- cleanup focus-follows-mouse handling from Greg Klanderman --- mswindows cursor support from Andy Piper --- elimination of bzero from Michael Sperber --- build fix from Jeff Miller --- xpm button fix from Andy Piper --- add optional `norecord' arg to select-window from Greg Klanderman --- regexp quote fix from Hrvoje Niksic --- early frame title update from Jan Vroonhof --- Make character 0240 display as space from Kyle Jones --- 0 argument printing fix from Hrvoje Niksic --- revert recent changes to etags.c --- dump clean up, removal of Lisp reader macros --- spelling fix from Jonathan Harris --- MS Windows build fix from Kirill Katsnelson --- sound fixes from Kyle Jones --- LDAP updates from Oscar Figueiredo --- Drag and drop update from Oliver Graf --- rename XEmacs internal realpath from Kyle Jones --- rangetab cleanup from Martin Buchholz --- etags fix --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 21.0 beta38 "Repartida" --- apropos.el modernization --- Documentation updates from Hrvoje Niksic --- range table fix from Olivier Galibert --- Various changes from Andy Piper --- Magic specifier fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- Various changes from Hrvoje Niksic --- print changes/find-file changes from Hrvoje Niksic --- source formatting changes from Martin Buchholz --- font handling for W3 under MS Windows from Andy Piper --- Xpm color symbol support for MS Windows from Andy Piper --- keyboard macro fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- MS Windows Signal fix from Kirill Katsnelson --- All GIFs in core distribution converted to PNGs -- screw Unisys --- More build tweaks --- Make line-number-mode/column-number-mode appear in minor mode menu from - Jim Radford --- General toolbar fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- Selection patches from Andy Piper --- background pixmaps in MS Windows from Andy Piper --- Startup patches from Michael Sperber --- Signalling support for MS Windows from Kirill Katsnelson --- Startup tweaks --- PNG crash fix from Jareth Hein --- Keyboard Focus sanity from Greg Klanderman --- LDAP fixes from Oscar Figueiredo --- Fix Lisp union type on MS Windows from Andy Piper --- Miscellaneous patches from Jonathan Harris, Kirill Katsnelson --- Build clean up - -to 21.0 beta37 "Pygmy" --- Bug fixes, generalization of image code from Andy Piper --- Installation/startup fixes from Michael Sperber --- Irix 5.3 dumping fix from Olivier Galibert --- Bug fixes from Martin Buchholz, Michael Sperber and Bob Weiner --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- More fixes from Didier Verna for Customization of options menu --- Miscellaneous patches from Kirill Katsnelson and Hrvoje Niksic --- More MS Windows toolbar stuffs from Kirill Katsnelson --- Custom-ization of the options menu from Didier Verna --- MS Windows toolbar stuffs from Andy Piper --- MS Windows build fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- MS Windows process fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- miscellaneous patches from Michael Sperber, Hrvoje Niksic, Martin Buchholz --- Gnuclient/gnudoit stdin support from Jan Vroonhof --- eldap fixes from Oscar Figueiredo --- Synching with InfoDock 3.7 --- info fixes from Oscar Figueiredo --- removed --sitelispdir configure option --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 21.0 beta36 "Philippine" --- Xpm for MS Windows from Jonathan Harris --- print stream fix from Hrvoje Niksic --- etags.c fix from Andreas Jaeger --- dll fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- etags.c synched with InfoDock --- ghost specifiers from Kirill Katsnelson --- DLL fix from Hrvoje Niksic --- cygwin installation fix from Andy Piper --- cygwin process fix from Andy Piper --- More startup changes from Michael Sperber --- new version of LDAP code from Oscar Figueiredo --- path debugging patches from Michael Sperber --- more fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- miscellaneous patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- Toolbar support for MS Windows from Andy Piper --- Changes by FUKUI Kaoru for PPC/Linux --- various fixes from Martin Buchholz --- various patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- s/*.h cleanup from Olivier Galibert --- display fixes from Greg Klanderman --- More MS Windows process patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- More path searching fixes from Michael Sperber --- path searching changes from Michael Sperber --- MS Windows fixes from Kirill Katsnelson - -to 21.0 beta35 "Peacock Goat" --- info fixes from Oscar Figueiredo --- Various fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- More clean up patches from Martin Buchholz --- MS Windows processes patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- path searching patches from Michael Sperber --- clean up patches from Martin Buchholz --- Various fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- BSD fixes from IENAGA Kazuyuki --- glyphs-x.c cleanup from Colin Rafferty --- MS windows fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- toolbar clean up from Jeff Miller --- Hunt the Wumpus 64 bit cleanness patches from Olivier Galibert --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- info updates from Oscar Figueiredo --- Various patches from Andreas Jaegar, Olivier Galibert, Karl Hegbloom, - and Amir Katz --- FAQ update from Christian Nybø --- miscellaneous fixes from Martin Buchholz --- package-get-base.el updated - -to 21.0 beta34 "Oberhasli" --- defsymbol cleanup from Martin Buchholz --- miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz --- MS Windows fixes from Andy Piper --- various motion changes from Greg Klanderman --- dynamic info dir/localdir courtesy of Oscar Figueiredo --- Various patches from Kyle Jones and Hrvoje Niksic --- package path startup fixes from Michael Sperber --- Speed fix/MS Windows cleanup patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- Martin patches --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 21.0 beta33 "Nigerian Dwarf" --- Various MS Windows patches from Kirill Katsnelson, Andy Piper and - Jonathon Harris --- Startup fixes from Michael Sperber --- Various fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Various fixes from Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 21.0 beta32 "Nachi" --- NT image support from Andy Piper --- Various fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Canna detection now looks for includes in /usr/local/canna --- load-gc renamed to pureload --- itimer.el-1.07 courtesy of Kyle Jones --- package-path searching fixes courtesy of Michael Sperber --- buffer overrun prevention patches from Hrvoje Niksic, and Jan Vroonhof --- various patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous patches from Kyle Jones, Kirill Katsnelson, --- decode-path-internal added as lisp level interface to decode_path --- parse-colon-path restored to files.el --- miscellaneous startup fixes --- DLL fixes from William Perry --- PNG autodetectin update - -to 20.5 beta31 "Myotonic" --- modules directory with dll examples courtesy of William Perry --- Upside-down TIFF fix from Jareth Hein --- ldap/eudc fixes from Oscar Figueiredo --- file coding changes/cleanup from Kirill Katsnelson --- separation of internal motion commands from user keystroke motion commands - from Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous cursor bug fixes from Kyle Jones --- More bug fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- Better error message for unbound major modes from Pete Ware --- Updates on DLL support from William Perry --- New GIF support from Jareth Hein --- Miscellaneous MS windows fixes from Kirill Katsnelson --- Scrollable modeline deferred until 21.1 --- 20.5 is renamed to 21.0 --- TMPDIR fixes from Glynn Clements --- cygwin dll detection fixes from Andy Piper --- NT .wav sound support from Andy Piper --- Cygwin configuration fixes from Andy Piper --- mouse-4, mouse-5 portability keysyms --- Options -> Browse Faces now calls customize-face from Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- DLL configuration and portability fixes from William Perry --- Marker and sound fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- face initialization bug fixes from Kyle Jones --- static initializer fix from Kyle Jones - -to 20.5 beta30 "Moxotó" --- find-gc.el fixes courtesy of Markus Linnala --- mousewheel support courtesy of William Perry --- Mule tty initialization courtesy of Kazuyuki IENAGA --- backspace mapping fixing from Kyle Jones --- New function `temp-directory' courtesy of Glynn Clements --- miscellaneous patches from Jens UH Petersen, Greg Klanderman, Kirill - Katsnelson and Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous cygwin cleanup from Andy Piper --- dired in C changes courtesy of Darryl Okahata --- process abstraction changes courtesy of Kirill Katsnelson --- Added an example of a DLL --- Coding system cleanup courtesy of Andy Piper --- Build fixes for --srcdir --- Miscellaneous fixes --- Fix localized menubars to work when the application class changes name. - -to 20.5 beta29 "Loashan" --- Add autodetection of DLL support --- bug fixes from Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- `make all' really remakes everything --- Installation file changes format: - XEmacs version is printed - Previous versions are now deleted by default --- --with-dlmalloc configure option added --- fix multicast support courtesy of Didier Verna --- LDAP fixes courtesy of Oscar Figueiredo - -to 20.5 beta28 "LaMancha" --- eudc/LDAP stuffs courtesy of Oscar Figueiredo --- file-coding separation from Mule courtesy of Andy Piper --- Various fixes from Kyle Jones --- Support for multicasting courtesy of Didier Verna --- Fix for respecting tty-erase-char courtesy of Glynn Clements --- Miscellaneous patches from Karl Hegbloom --- Miscellaneous patches from Greg Klanderman --- Allow `XEmacs' to be used in X resources courtesy of Greg Klanderman --- menu fixes courtesy of Aki Vehtari --- gnu(serv|client) can use TMPDIR if set courtesy of Glynn Clements --- miscellaneous fixes from Greg Klanderman --- Various modeline fixes courtesy of Didier Verna --- Miscellaneous doc fixes courtesy of Karl Hegbloom --- Miscellaneous bug fixes --- Glyph changes when dragging modeline courtesy of Didier Verna - -to 20.5 beta27 "Kinder" --- Locale fix courtesy of Kazuyuki IENAGA --- Fix for TZSET problem on Sun via Jens Krinke --- Another try at modeline scroll, courtesy of Didier Verna --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta26 "Kiko" --- MS Windows patches courtesy of Kirill Katsnelson --- Various patches from Kyle Jones --- Modeline scrolling courtesy of Dider Verna --- various patches from Christoph Wedler --- Fixes for Linux/alpha courtesy of Aki Vehtari --- Mouse scrolling fix courtesy of Didier Verna --- files.el fix courtesy of Kyle Jones --- (Not so) Experimental support for Doug Lea Malloc --- XEmacs/Mule in a tty works courtesy of Kazuyuki IENAGA --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta25 "Kamori" --- Dead key fixes courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- Make count-* functions work sensibly courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- SGI unexec fixes courtesy of Olivier Galibert --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta24 "Kaghani" --- source commentary censored --- Miscellaneous MS Windows patches from Kirill Katsnelson --- Miscellaneous MS Windows patches from Jonathan Harris --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz and Hrvoje Niksic --- Cygwin patches courtesy of Andy Piper --- Fix for integer 0 plist problem on Linux courtesy of Olivier Galibert --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta23 "Jining Grey" --- MS Windows DnD stuffs courtesy of Jonathon Harris --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta22 "Grison's Striped" --- Port to mklinux courtesy of Kaoru Fukui --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta21 "Golden Guernsey" --- Package interface standard 1.0 --- Cygwin stuffs from Andy Piper --- Miscellaneous patches from Kyle Jones --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz --- Experimental Shared Library support courtesy of Joshua Rowe, and integration - courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta20 "Don" --- Miscellaneous patches from Damon Lipparelli, Jens Petersen, Karl Hegbloom, - and Christoph Wedler --- overlay.el has been packaged (xemacs-base) --- Configure changes from Martin Buchholz --- Hashing changes from Hrvoje Niksic --- IBM AIX build fix to work with MIT X11 courtesy of Michael Sperber --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta19 "Damani" --- Package building update --- Hash and profile patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta18 "Daera Din Panah" --- Miscellaneous and sundry fixes for 20.4 merged --- MS Windows updates from Kirill Katsnelson and Andy Piper --- New command line arg `-no-autoloads' to suppress auto-autoloads loading - at startup (also implies -vanilla) --- auto-autoloads are not dumped --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta17 "Chapar" --- Tutorial menubar support courtesy of Didier Verna --- Package-get refined courtesy of Pete Ware --- Package related build fixes - -to 20.5 beta16 "Canindé" --- Package interface updates --- Reload updated and new auto-autoloads files at startup --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta15 "British Alpine" --- MS Windows menu fixes courtesy of Kirill Katsnelson --- autoloads are now loaded into impure storage and can be deleted at runtime --- loadhist.el is now dumped with XEmacs --- XEmacs running in place as a login shell now works --- loadhist.el unpackaged --- COMPILED_FUNCTION_ANNOTATION disabled --- Added new compile time symbols -- LOADHIST_DUMPED and LOADHIST_BUILTIN - adapted from code originally by Tomasz Cholewo - -to 20.5 beta14 "Booted Goat" --- help.el update courtesy of Jens Petersen --- Image error handling courtesy of Jareth Hein --- MS Windows menubar support courtesy of Kirill Katsnelson --- Compile time/but not run-time support for cygwin courtesy of Andy Piper --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta13 "Boer" --- Run time dependencies on x-win*.el removed. --- Total package upgrade --- Miscellaneous bug fixes --- Documentation fixes - -to 20.5 beta12 "Bhuj" --- MS Windows NT patches courtesy of Jeff Sparkes and Kirill Katsnelson --- userlock.el is now unpackaged --- New file callers-of-rpt.el (dependency generator) courtesy of Karl Hegbloom --- Gnats is now packaged --- SKK is now packaged --- Egg/Its is now packaged --- FAQ update courtesy of Andreas Kaempf and Aki Vehtari --- 20.4 renumbered to 20.5 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta11 "Beetal" --- Patches and bugfixes from Hrvoje Niksic and Kyle Jones --- MS Windows updates courtesy of Kirill Katsnelson and Jeff Sparkes --- Localized French menus courtesy of Olivier Galibert --- Localized Japanese menu update courtesy of IENAGA Kazuyuki --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta10 "Barbari" --- MS Windows NT updates courtesy of Kirill M. Katsnelson --- etags.el update courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta9 "Australian Goat" --- MS Windows patches for clipboard courtesy of Jonathon Harris --- ImageMagick support displays images now courtesy of Jareth Hein --- Untested support for kWnn and cWnn (Korean and Chinese input with Egg and - Wnn added). --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta8 "Arapawa Island" --- build-report 1.35 courtesy of Adrian Aichner --- MS Windows stuffs from David Hobley, Jonathon Harris, August Hill, - Jeff Sparkes --- various patches from Jareth Hein --- refcard update courtesy of Aki Vehtari --- Egg-SJ3 Input Method support ported --- SKK Input Method added --- Various patches from Kyle Jones and Hrvoje Niksic --- Various fixes to build in minimal configuration --- Fixes to x-menubar.el to guard against possibly absent packages --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta7 "Appenzell" --- Miscellaneous MS Windows patches from David Hobley and Jeff Sparkes --- ImageMagick is not autodetected by configure courtesy of IENAGA Kazuyuki --- (broken) energize support has been removed courtesy of Jeff Miller --- lisp/eos has been packaged --- lisp/sunpro has been packaged --- lisp/tooltak has been packaged --- abbrevlist.el has been packaged --- advice.el has been packaged --- annotations.el has been packaged --- assoc.el has been packaged --- atomic-extents.el has been packaged --- bench.el has been packaged --- browse-url.el has been packaged --- edit-toolbar.el has been packaged --- edmacro.el has been packaged --- eldoc.el has been packaged --- facemenu.el has been packaged --- floating-toolbar.el has been packaged --- foldout.el has been packaged --- frame-icon.el has been packaged --- hippie-exp.el has been packaged --- live-icon.el has been packaged --- loadhist.el has been packaged --- passwd.el has been packaged --- ph.el has been packaged --- pp.el has been packaged --- pretty-print.el has been packaged --- redo.el has been packaged --- regexp-opt.el has been packaged --- regi.el has been packaged --- reporter.el has been packaged --- ring.el has been packaged --- savehist.el has been packaged --- shadowfile.el has been packaged --- skeleton.el has been packaged --- symbol-syntax.el has been packaged --- sysdep.el has been packaged --- thing.el has been packaged --- timezone.el has been packaged --- toolbar-utils.el has been packaged --- tree-menu.el has been packaged --- xbm-button.el has been packaged --- xpm-button.el has been packaged --- advocacy.el has been packaged --- case-table.el has been packaged --- debug.el has been packaged --- disp-table.el has been packaged --- env.el has been packaged --- find-func.el has been packaged --- lisp-file-db.el has been packaged --- macros.el has been packaged --- novice.el has been packaged --- options.el has been removed --- overlay.el has been packaged --- profile.el has been packaged --- rect.el has been packaged --- reposition.el has been packaged --- sort.el has been packaged --- tabify.el has been packaged --- userlock.el has been packaged --- elp.el has been packaged --- highlight-headers.el has been packaged --- id-select.el has been packaged --- rfc822.el has been packaged --- smtp.el has been packaged --- soundex.el has been packaged --- tq.el has been packaged --- trace.el has been packaged --- uniquify.el has been packaged --- cmdloop1.el has been removed --- inc-vers.el has been removed --- icomplete.el has been packaged --- igrep.el has been packaged --- informat.el has been packaged --- iswitchb.el has been packaged --- jka-compr.el has been packaged --- makeinfo.el has been packaged --- makesum.el has been packaged --- man.el has been packaged --- metamail.el has been packaged --- mic-paren.el has been packaged --- mode-motion+.el has been packaged --- rcompile.el has been packaged --- recent-files.el has been packaged --- refbib.el has been packaged --- reportmail.el has been packaged --- resume.el has been packaged --- generic-sc.el has been packaged --- gopher.el has been packaged --- hexl.el has been packaged --- fast-lock.el has been packaged --- feedmail.el has been packaged --- file-part.el has been packaged --- filladapt.el has been packaged --- func-menu.el has been packaged --- saveconf.el has been packaged --- saveplace.el has been packaged --- scroll-in-place.el has been packaged --- shell-font.el has been packaged --- spell.el has been packaged --- supercite.el has been packaged --- page-ext.el has been packaged --- paren.el has been packaged --- pending-del.el has been packaged --- ps-print.el has been packaged --- edit-faces.el has been packaged --- emacsbug.el has been packaged --- emerge.el has been packaged --- lazy-lock.el has been packaged --- ledit.el has been packaged --- lispm-fonts.el has been packaged --- lpr.el has been packaged --- tar-mode.el has been packaged --- terminal.el has been packaged --- tex-latin1.el has been packaged --- texinfmt.el has been packaged --- texnfo-tex.el has been packaged --- texnfo-upd.el has been packaged --- time-stamp.el has been packaged --- time.el has been packaged --- uncompress.el has been packaged --- underline.el has been packaged --- upd-copyr.el has been packaged --- webjump.el has been packaged --- webster-www.el has been packaged --- xscheme.el has been packaged --- dabbrev.el has been packaged --- desktop.el has been packaged --- detexinfo.el has been packaged --- diff.el has been packaged --- doctex.el has been packaged --- chistory.el has been packaged --- cmuscheme.el has been packaged --- compare-w.el has been packaged --- compile.el has been packaged --- completion.el has been packaged --- crypt.el has been packaged --- bookmark.el has been packaged --- blink-paren.el has been packaged --- blink-cursor.el has been packaged --- big-menubar.el has been packaged --- balloon-help.el has been packaged --- backup-dir.el has been packaged --- avoid.el has been packaged --- autoinsert.el has been packaged --- array.el has been packaged --- add-log.el has been packaged --- oobr has been packaged --- mail-extr.el, mail-utils.el have been packaged --- view-process has been packaged --- vhdl-mode has been packaged --- texinfo.el has been packaged --- tex-mode.el has been packaged --- sendmail.el has been packaged --- sgml-mode.el has been packaged --- scribe.el has been packaged --- scheme.el has been packaged --- rsz-minibuf.el has been packaged --- rexx-mode.el has been packaged --- reftex.el has been packaged --- python-mode.el has been packaged --- prolog.el has been packaged --- postscript.el has been packaged --- picture.el has been packaged --- perl-mode.el has been packaged --- pascal.el has been packaged --- outline.el has been packaged --- outl-mouse.el has been packaged --- nroff-mode.el has been packaged --- modula2.el has been packaged --- make-mode.el has been packaged --- mail-abbrevs.el has been packaged --- lisp-mnt.el has been packaged --- linuxdoc-sgml.el has been packaged --- lazy-shot.el has been packaged --- image-mode.el has been packaged --- icon.el has been packaged --- hideshow.el has been packaged --- hideif.el has been packaged --- executable.el has been packaged --- enriched.el has been packaged --- eiffel3.el has been packaged --- cperl-mode.el has been packaged --- cmacexp.el has been packaged --- cl-indent.el has been packaged --- c-style.el has been packged --- c-fill.el has been packaged --- c-comment.el has been packaged --- bibtex.el has been packaged --- bib-mode.el has been packaged --- awk-mode.el has been packaged --- autoconf-mode.el has been packaged --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta6 "Angora" --- New package-path syntax. A null package indicates where the default lisp - should go. This allows specifying packages that must be appended to the - package path. Courtesy of Colin Rafferty --- `-flags' and `-?' are no longer command flags --- MS Windows updates from David Hobley, Jonathon Harris, and Marc Paquette --- Mule/enriched.el update courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- FAQ updates courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic and Aki Vehtari --- crisp.el-1.26 courtesy of Gary Foster --- Egg update courtesy of Jareth Hein --- Update to Norwegian TUTORIAL courtesy of Stig Bjørlykke --- Polish translation of the TUTORIAL courtesy of Remek Trzaska, update and - corrections courtesy of Rysiek Kubiak --- Toolbar improvements courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta5 "Anglo-Nubian" --- CCL synched with Emacs 20.2 courtesy of Olivier Galibert --- various updates from Hrvoje Niksic and Kyle Jones --- MS Windows updates from Marc Paquette and Jonathon Harris --- FAQ update courtesy of Andreas Kaempf --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta4 "American Cashmere" --- Major changes in portable dumping/Lisp_Object code courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Miscellaneous patches from Kyle Jones, Hrvoje Niksic --- various build tweaks --- help-macro ported from Emacs 20 courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Fix compiler warnings --- MS Windows patches from Marc Paquette and Darryl Okahata --- Change pointer glyph over custom buttons courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- New Lisp variable: last-command-event-time courtesy of Kyle Jones --- miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta3 "Altai Mountain" --- query-replace and query-replace-regexp will only replace the region if the - zmacs region is active. --- iso-acc.el has been packaged --- iso-ascii.el has been packaged --- iso-cvt.el has been packaged --- iso-insert.el has been packaged --- iso-swed.el has been packaged --- iso-syntax.el has been packaged --- swedish.el has been packaged --- edebug has been packaged --- ebuff-menu.el has been packaged --- echistory.el has been packaged --- ehelp.el has been packaged --- electric.el has been packaged --- helper.el has been packaged --- arc-mode.el has been packaged --- ada-stmt.el has been packaged --- ada-mode.el has been packaged --- fortran.el has been packaged --- fortran-misc.el has been packaged --- f90.el has been packaged --- ksh-mode.el has been packaged --- m4-mode.el has been packaged --- strokes.el has been packaged --- sh-script.el has been packaged --- simula.el has been packaged --- tcl.el has been packaged --- verilog-mode.el has been packaged --- view.el has been packaged --- vrml-mode.el has been packaged --- whitespace-mode.el has been packaged --- winmgr-mode.el has been packaged --- xpm-mode.el has been packaged --- xrdb-mode.el has been packaged --- Suppress shadowing message if no shadows were found. --- Moved dumped lisp into top-level lisp directory --- bug fixes from Didier Verna, Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen, Martin Buchholz, - and Tomasz Cholewo. --- Lazy shot updates from Jan Vroonhof --- Numerous bug fixes from Hrvoje Niksic --- Numerous bug fixes from Kyle Jones --- Mule changes courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- speedbar has been packaged (and updated courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic) --- Initial Native MS Windows support courtesy of Jonathan Harris --- comint has been packaged --- pcl-cvs has been packaged --- cc-mode has been packaged --- ilisp has been packaged --- apel has been packaged --- hyperbole has been packaged --- eterm has been packaged --- Elimination of broken VMS code courtesy of Andreas Jaeger --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta2 "Alpine" --- hm--html-mode has been packaged --- viper has been packaged --- ediff has been packaged --- EFS has been packaged --- Mailcrypt has been packaged --- VM has been packaged --- Mule updates, elimination of dead languages courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Phase one of graphics conversion to ImageMagic courtesy of William Perry --- Miscellaneous menu hacking courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Reorganization of Lisp type & type bits courtesy of Kyle Jones --- reftex.el 3.7 courtesy of Carsten Dominik --- Norwegian tutorial update courtesy of Stig Bjorlykkee --- ediff & viper updates courtesy of Michael Kifer --- Canna & Wnn integrated with LEIM courtesy of Stephen Turnbull --- Berkeley DB 2.x support courtesy of Andreas Jaeger --- tm has been packaged --- calendar has been packaged --- Build tweak: finder-inf is not aggressively rebuilt --- New versions of TUTORIAL: --- Croatian - Hrvoje Niksic --- French - Didier Verna --- German - Adrian Aichner --- Norwegian - Stig Bjorlykke --- Japanese, Korean, Thai - Imported from Emacs 20.1 --- Disable puresize statistics unless --debug is in effect --- about.el hacking --- New command line options -no-packages, -vanilla --- psgml has been packaged --- Move lisp types into lrecords for portability courtesy of Kyle Jones --- yow.el has been packaged --- xmine.el has been packaged --- tetris.el has been packaged --- hanoi.el has been packaged --- hide-copyleft.el has been packaged --- flow-ctrl.el has been packaged --- find-gc.el has been packaged --- detached-minibuf.el has been packaged --- crontab.el has been packaged --- browse-cltl2.el has been packaged --- studly.el has been packaged --- spook.el has been packaged --- mpuz.el has been packaged --- life.el has been packaged --- gomoku.el has been packaged --- flame.el has been packaged --- dunnet.el has been packaged --- doctor.el has been packaged --- dissociate.el has been packaged --- decipher.el has been packaged --- cookie1.el has been packaged --- conx.el has been packaged --- blackbox.el has been packaged --- NeXTify.el has been packaged --- Support for conses and vectors to be lrecords --- autoloads found in User packages loaded at start up --- reftex.el update courtesy of Carsten Dominik --- crisp.el-1.21 courtesy of Gary Foster --- lazy-shot.el update from Jan Vroonhof --- XEmacs/BETA logo courtesy of Mark Borges & Didier Verna --- Oliver Graf OffiX patches --- Mule patches from MORIOKA Tomohiko --- xemacs-build-report-1.33 courtesy of Adrian Aichner --- Hrvoje Niksic updates --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.5 beta1 "Century" --- Version fork, package work will be carried on in this branch --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta28 "Reykjavik" --- about.el additions and updates --- See etc/BETA for initial package documentation --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz, Kyle Jones and Hrvoje Niksic --- info changes from Karl Hegbloom (see etc/NEWS for details) --- delbs.el is now a single file package --- New package adding utility scripts added to lib-src --- docref.el is now a single file package --- cc-mode-5.19 Courtesy of Barry Warsaw --- standardize on const as CONST, register as REGISTER --- mh-e is now an XEmacs package --- Rmail is now an XEmacs package --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta27 "Skopje" --- register declarations nuked by default --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz, Karl Hegbloom and Hrvoje Niksic --- VC is now an XEmacs package --- W3 is now an XEmacs package --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta26 "Riga" --- register declarations nuked by default --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin Buchholz, Karl Hegbloom and Hrvoje Niksic --- VC is now an XEmacs package --- W3 is now an XEmacs package --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta25 "Prague" --- Ediff 2.671 Courtesy of Michael Kifer --- Viper 3.001 Courtesy of Michael Kifer --- OffiX DnD now binds to XEmacs events and doesn't use an external library - Courtesy of Oliver Graf --- New file xemacs-build-report.el courtesy of Adrian Aichner --- Synch to Emacs 20.2 by MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Various patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta24 "Ljubljana" --- Interface change: custom-loads now snarfed separately from autoloads. --- custom snarfing code rewritten --- iswitchb.el added from Emacs 20.2 --- NT DOC file fix from David Hobley --- jpeg detection corrected --- bytecode fix to char-syntax --- gnuserv.el reverted to 3.09 --- Various patches/Emacs 20.1 synchs from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta23 "Sarajevo" --- Other new and older Hrvoje Niksic patches --- 20.1 synching by Hrvoje Niksic --- gnuserv.el-3.10 courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- custom-1.9960 --- Build changes to info tree --- cperl-mode.el-1.35-1 (XEmacs conversion by Karl Hegbloom) --- shadow.el -- imported from Emacs 20.1 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta22 "Minsk" --- Miscellaneous (small) bug fixes --- Autoloads regenerated from scratch - -to 20.3 beta21 "Bern" --- Artificial event creation from Hrvoje Niksic --- cl-extra.elc and cl-seq.elc are now dumped with XEmacs --- custom-1.9958 Courtesy of Per Abrahamsen --- W3-3.0.104 Courtesy of William Perry --- one-shot extent hooks added -- someone please send me the current - shotlock.el --- Custom initialization rework from Hrvoje Niksic --- cc-mode-5.18 courtesy of Barry Warsaw --- VM-6.34 courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Miscellaneous clean up patches from Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta20 "Tirana" --- Miscellaneous patches from Martin and Hrvoje --- tetris.el-1.8 --- viper update courtesy of Michael Kifer --- ediff updates courtesy of Michael Kifer --- strokes.el-2.4-beta --- cc-mode-5.17 --- edmacro.el-3.19 courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta19 "Kyiv" --- Mega Martin Buchholz patch --- Major Viper update, Viper is now Mule aware --- ediff updates courtesy of Michael Kifer --- tpu-edt.el/tpu-extras.el synched with Emacs 19.34/XEmacs 19.16 courtesy of - Kevin Oberman --- strokes.el-2.4beta --- crisp.el-1.20 courtesy of Gary D. Foster --- New regex syntax changes courtesy of Michael Cook --- improved color terminal detection --- tetris.el-1.4 Courtesy of Glynn Clements --- Custom-1.9956 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes --- W3-3.0.103 - -to 20.3 beta18 "Bratislava" --- enhancements to help.el courtesy of Jens Petersen --- Mega Martin Buchholz patch --- edit-toolbar.el-1.02 courtesy of Mike Scheidler --- cc-mode-5.16 --- DOC file generation clean up --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta17 "Bucharest" --- ediff-2.67 --- viper-2.96 --- cc-mode-5.15 --- Various patches by Karl Hegbloom - Interface change: info mode now behaves like Emacs by default. --- Custom-1.9954 --- texinfo documentation updated from texinfo-3.11 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta16 "Budapest" --- New lisp finding functions courtesy of Jens Petersen - New keybindings: C-c f -- find-function - C-x 4 F -- find-function-other-window - C-x 5 F -- find-function-other-frame --- vhdl-mode.el-2.74 Courtesy of Rod Whitby --- Custom-1.9953 --- OffiX DnD extensions courtesy of Oliver Graf --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta15 "Berlin" --- cc-mode-5.14 --- hm--html-menus-5.8 --- Gnus-5.4.64 is packaged --- AUCTeX-9.7p is packaged --- Initial implementation of Packages --- Handling of printing circular objects synched with Emacs 19.34 --- mel-6.10.1 [Formerly part of tm] Courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- apel-3.4 [Formerly part of tm] Courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Fix for installing XEmacs with separate --prefix, --exec-prefix directories --- New configure option --pkg-dir [list] enabled, contents available via - the Lisp variable `package-path' (default is "/etc/xemacs:~/.xemacs)) --- Advisory message added to *scratch* at startup --- Gnus-5.4.64 --- strokes.el-2.3 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta14 "Vienna" --- VM-6.33 --- Miscellaneous Martin Buchholz patches to configure --- viper-2.95 --- ediff-2.66 --- cc-mode-5.13 --- Texinfo files updated from Texinfo-3.9e. --- Menubar accelerators courtesy of Joel Peterson --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta13 "Brussels" --- W3-3.0.94 --- ph.el-2.6 courtesy of Oscar Figueiredo --- Miscellaneous Configure changes from Martin and Hrvoje. --- crisp.el-1.19 courtesy of Gary Foster --- Gnus-5.4.63 --- Major and sundry changes by Martin Buchholz --- gnuserv.el-3.9 (Add done button on menubar) courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- edit-toolbar.el-1.01 courtesy of Peter Pezaris --- toolbar-utils.el courtesy of Jeff Miller (was called toolbar-func.el on - xemacs-beta) --- Miscellaneous build fixes --- Custom-1.9951 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta12 "Helsinki" --- cc-mode-5.12. --- ~/.xemacs --> ~/.xemacs/init.el --- ~/.xemacs-custom -> ~/.xemacs/options.el --- Fix lossage in lwlib-Xm.c --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta11 "Stockholm" --- Try #2 with LOSING_BYTECODE disabled. --- Interface change: value of `system-type' is provided as a feature --- Gnus-5.4.62 --- W3-3.0.93 --- Custom-1.9946 --- New user variable `errors-deactivate-region' --- Miscellaneous bug fixes. --- iso-acc.el-1.15 (Mule fixes) --- autoloads/custom loads generation in build updated --- Fix for frozen messages in message area from Kyle Jones. - -to 20.3 beta10 "Athens" --- Linuxdoc-sgml.el courtesy of Arun Sharma. --- rewritten abbreviations from Hrvoje Niksic --- Gnus-5.4.60 --- New file image-mode.el (Major mode for displaying image files) --- Miscellaneous Mule patches from MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Miscellaneous Hrvoje Niksic patches --- Configure/tree-x patches from Martin Buchholz --- Restore Show Message Log in Edit menu. --- `make autoloads' updated and should now work without Mule [untested]. --- New boolean variable `x-seppuku-on-epipe' to handle case of X Server going - away and XEmacs not exiting. Set to `t' to force immediate exit --- custom-1.9940 --- gnuserv.el-3.6 --- speedbar-0.5 courtesy of Eric Ludlam --- Internals change -- Use fork() instead of vfork() for invoking - subprocesses --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta9 "Sofia". --- cc-mode-5.11 --- custom-1.9937 --- Mule Updates/Quail/Synch with Emacs/Mule zeta courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- lazy-lock.el reverted to 1.14 as per Ben Wing's instructions. --- ph.el-2.1 --- W3-3.0.92 courtesy of William Perry --- reftex.el-2.14 --- Lots of Miscellaneous Hrvoje Niksic patches --- view-process 2.4 -- Courtesy of Heiko Muenkel --- time.el-1.17 --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta8 "Copenhagen". --- Custom changes now saved in ~/.xemacs-custom and loaded automatically at - startup --- oobr support binaries moved from lisp hierarchy to new top level - directory `pkg-src' --- Viper-2.94 Courtesy of Michael Kifer --- Customizations from Hrvoje Niksic --- FAQ update from Andreas Kaempf --- New graphic cbx.gif added to etc, courtesy of Jens Lautenbacher, - `Created by XEmacs' suitable for adorning a web page. --- save-some-buffers now has an option to preview dirty buffers as - they are being offered for save. Courtesy of David Bakhash --- XEmacs compiles in 64 bit SGI environment courtesy of Olivier Galibert --- Hardcoded -I/usr/local/include, -L/usr/local/include removed --- edmacro.el-3.16 --- mapvector is now a subr courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- new function archive-quit in arc-mode.el courtesy of Karl Hegbloom --- debug-on-error (round 2) courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Gnus-5.4.59 --- Build no longer depends on a list of .elc files listed in src/Makefile.in.in - (only important to developers) --- If a .xemacs file exists, use it in preference to .emacs. If no .xemacs - use .emacs as usual. The file loaded is left in `user-init-file' --- Overhaul of XEmacs startup code, Part II --- custom-1.9931 --- Miscellaneous Ebola fixes --- New internal autoload generating function `batch-update-directory' --- New file hippie-exp.el from Emacs/Mule zeta --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta7 "Oslo". --- Miscellaneous Ebola fixes --- hyper-apropos update courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Make lib-complete deal with compressed .el files when not using Mule. - (Patch based on code from Jonathan Doughty) --- Gnus refcard update courtesy of Vladimir Alexiev --- Various fixes from Kyle Jones --- ph.el-1.2.1.1 Courtesy of Oscar Figueiredo --- custom-1.9916 --- `with-current-buffer', etc. ported from Emacs 20.1 courtesy of Hrvoje - Niksic --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta6 "Moscow". --- Configure updates courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- Mule updates courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Lots of Ebola cleanup, but much remains --- Miscellaneous bug fixes - -to 20.3 beta5 "Zagreb". --- Configure patches continued from Martin Buchholz --- Miscellaneous Bug Fixes from various people (see ChangeLogs) --- custom-1.9908 --- Moved mule-doc/demo to etc/HELLO for the mule menu. - -to 20.3 beta4 "Warsaw". --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- various about.el additions & updates --- edmacro.el-3.15 --- Configure patches courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- about.el-2.2 courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- New function eval-when-feature from Emacs 20 --- Toolbar buttons now take arbitrary lisp functions for callback --- webjump.el-1.5 courtesy of Neal W. Van Dyke --- reftex.el-2.13 courtesy of Carsten Dominik --- Initial synch with InfoDock 3.5 --- Give defcustom the same special treatment defvar gets when evaluated with - `eval-last-sexp' (C-x C-e) --- "These patches make XEmacs run under NT!" - David Hobley --- Initial port of LEIM courtesy of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- tm-7.108 courtey of MORIOKA Tomohiko --- Custom-1.9907 --- VM-6.32 --- Gnus-5.4.56 --- ediff & viper updates courtesy of Michael Kifer --- icomplete.el-4.10 courtesy of Ken Manheimer --- gdb-highlight.el courtesy of Jamie Zawinski --- New function `narrow-to-defun' bound to `C-x n d', from Emacs 19.35 --- Oops, sorry. gnudoit script restored --- New function `kill-buffer-and-window' bound to `C-x 4 0', from Emacs 19.34 --- Cleanup of dumped packages to eliminate bytecompiler warnings - -to 20.3 beta3. --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- iso-acc.el-1.14 courtesy of Alexandre Oliva --- custom-load.el renamed to cus-load.el and is no longer dumped --- Configure patches courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- etags.c-12.7 --- Old packages removed: modes/old-c-mode.el, modes/old-c++-mode.el, - modes/two-column.el. - emulators/mlconvert.el, emulators/mlsupport.el. - energize/*.el. - eos/loaddefs-eos.el. - packages/generic-sc.el, packages/mime-compose.el, packages/netunam.el, - packages/sccs.el, packages/server.el. - utils/mailpost.el, utils/meese.el. --- dynodump hierarchy restored to distribution --- ssh.el-1.3 courtesy of Noah Friedman --- AUC TeX-9.7p courtesy of Per Abrahamsen --- savehist.el-0.2 courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- GPM support courtesy of William Perry --- Custom-1.98 --- hm--html-menus-5.7 courtesy of Heiko Muenkel --- Gnus-5.4.55 - -to 20.3 beta2. --- mega configure patches courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- edmacro.el-3.14 --- eldoc.el-1.13 courtesy of Noah Friedman --- strokes.el-2.2 courtesy of David Bakhash --- eterm updates courtesy of Per Bothner --- add-log.el gets new mode type variables for lisp-like, c-like, and tex-like - modes courtesy of Erik Naggum --- add-log.el synched with Emacs 20.0 --- gnudoit removed, Gnuserv updated courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- miscellaneous bug fixes --- Fix for multiple frame `cursor lockstep' bug courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Continued configure/build cleanup --- obsolete dynodump directories removed --- Gnus-5.4.53 courtesy of Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen --- vc-hooks.el, vc.el synched up with Emacs 19.34.94. --- Bytecompiler optimization hacking courtesy of Jamie Zawinski - -to 20.3 beta1. --- Custom-1.97 courtesy of Per Abrahamsen --- Obsolete files emacstool.c, emacsclient.c, emacsserver.c removed --- etags.c-11.90 courtesy of Francesco Potorti` --- Dragable modeline courtesy of Kyle Jones --- Gnuserv.el 3.1 & upgrade of gnuclient courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic --- Upgrade to configure 2.12 courtesy of Martin Buchholz --- New variable `Info-button1-follows-hyperlink' to allow disabling the - feature. --- Restore Gosling Emacs transpose-chars implementation as an option