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Look for cased character classes when deciding on case-fold-search, #'isearch lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2015-03-11 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * isearch-mode.el: * isearch-mode.el (isearch-fix-case): Use the new #'no-case-regexp-p function if treating ISEARCH-STRING as a regular expression; otherwise, use the [[:upper:]] character class. * isearch-mode.el (isearch-no-upper-case-p): Removed. * isearch-mode.el (with-caps-disable-folding): Removed. These two haven't been used since 1998. * occur.el (occur-1): Use #'no-case-regexp-p here. * replace.el (perform-replace): Don't use #'no-upper-case-p, use #'no-case-regexp-p or (string-match "[[:upper:]]" ...) as appropriate. * simple.el: * simple.el (no-upper-case-p): Removed. This did two different things, and its secondary function (examining regular expressions) just became much more complicated; move the regular expression functionality to its own function, use character classes when examining non-regular-expressions instead. The code to look for character classes, and the design decision that this should be done, are from GNU, thank you Stefan Monnier. * simple.el (no-case-regexp-p): New. Given a REGEXP, return non-nil if it has nothing to suggest an interactive user wants a case-sensitive search. * simple.el (with-search-caps-disable-folding): * simple.el (with-interactive-search-caps-disable-folding): Update both these macros to use #'no-case-regexp-p.
author Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
date Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:06:15 +0000
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@node Reading Mail, Calendar/Diary, Sending Mail, Top
@chapter Reading Mail
@cindex mail
@cindex message

XEmacs provides several mail-reading packages.  Each one comes with
its own manual, which is included in each package.

The recommended mail-reading package for new users is VM.  VM works
with standard Unix-mail-format folders and was designed as a replacement
for the older Rmail.

XEmacs also provides a sophisticated and comfortable front-end to the
MH mail-processing system, called @samp{MH-E}.  Unlike in other
mail programs, folders in MH are stored as file-system directories,
with each message occupying one (numbered) file.  This facilitates
working with mail using shell commands, and many other features of
MH are also designed to integrate well with the shell and with
shell scripts.  Keep in mind, however, that in order to use MH-E
you must have the MH mail-processing system installed on your
computer.

The @dfn{Everything including the kitchen sink} package @samp{Gnus} is
also available as an XEmacs package.  Gnus also handles Usenet articles
as well as mail.

@samp{MEW} (Messaging in the Emacs World) is another mail-reading
package available for XEmacs.

Finally, XEmacs provides the Rmail package.  Rmail is (currently)
the only mail reading package distributed with FSF GNU Emacs, and is
powerful in its own right.  However, it stores mail folders in a
special format called @samp{Babyl}, that is incompatible with all
other frequently-used mail programs.  A utility program is provided
for converting Babyl folders to standard Unix-mail format; however,
unless you already have mail in Babyl-format folders, you should
consider using Gnus, VM, or MH-E instead.