[xemacs-hg @ 2001-06-08 12:21:09 by ben] ------ gc-in-window-procedure fixes ------ alloc.c: Create "post-gc actions", to avoid those dreaded "GC during window procedure" problems. event-msw.c: Abort, clean and simple, when GC in window procedure. We want to flush these puppies out. glyphs-msw.c: Use a post-gc action when destroying subwindows. lisp.h: Declare register_post_gc_action(). scrollbar-msw.c: Use a post-gc action when unshowing scrollbar windows, if in gc. redisplay.c: Add comment about the utter evilness of what's going down here. ------ cygwin setitimer fixes ------ Makefile.in.in: Compile profile.c only when HAVE_SETITIMER. nt.c: Style fixes. nt.c: Move setitimer() emulation to win32.c, because Cygwin needs it too. profile.c: Make sure we don't compile if no setitimer(). Use qxe_setitimer() instead of just plain setitimer(). signal.c: Define qxe_setitimer() as an encapsulation around setitimer() -- call setitimer() directly unless Cygwin or MS Win, in which case we use our simulated version in win32.c. systime.h: Prototype mswindows_setitimer() and qxe_setitimer(). Long comment about "qxe" and the policy regarding encapsulation. win32.c: Move setitimer() emulation here, so Cygwin can use it. Rename a couple of functions and variables to be longer and more descriptive. In setitimer_helper_proc(), send the signal using either mswindows_raise() or (on Cygwin) kill(). If for some reason we are still getting lockups, we'll change the kill() to directly invoke the signal handlers. ------ windows shell fixes ------ callproc.c, ntproc.c: Comments about how these two files must die. callproc.c: On MS Windows, init shell-file-name from SHELL, then COMSPEC, not just COMSPEC. (more correct and closer to FSF.) Don't force a value for SHELL into the environment. (Comments added to explain why not.) nt.c: Don't shove a fabricated SHELL into the environment. See above. ------ misc fixes ------ glyphs-shared.c: Style correction. xemacs-faq.texi: Merge in the rest of Hrvoje's Windows FAQ. Redo section 7 to update current reality and add condensed versions of new changes for 21.1 and 21.4. (Not quite done for 21.4.) Lots more Windows updates. process.el: Need to quote a null argument, too. From Dan Holmsand. startup.el: startup.el: Call MS Windows init function. win32-native.el: Correct comments at top. Correctly handle passing arguments to Cygwin programs and to bash. Fix quoting of zero-length arguments (from Dan Holmsand). Set shell-command-switch based on shell-file-name, which in turn comes from env var SHELL.

More Neat Stuff for your Emacs			-*-Outline-*-

This file describes GNU Emacs programs and resources that are maintained
by other people.  Some of these may become part of the Emacs distribution
in the future.

* The LCD archive

There is a large collection of Emacs Lisp code available for FTP at
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu; it is actively maintained by Dave Brennan
<brennan@hal.com> and Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov>.

To get started using this archive, do:

	ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu

Once you're in FTP, do

	cd pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive
	bin
	get lispdir.el.Z
	get LCD-datafile.Z

and exit.  Then do:

	compress -d *.Z

The lispdir.el package will help you search for useful packages in the
LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants.  It will even
fetch them for you on command.

* Eric Ludlam's etalk system

Eric Ludlam has written a C program and Emacs Lisp code to do Internet talk
through an Emacs window.  The package also includes Emacs Lisp code which
assists you in using talk to play a number of different interactive games.

This system seems to be quite nicely put together and is well documented
with a texinfo file that you can integrate into Emacs's own on-line help.
It's too large and specialized to include in the Emacs distribution, though.

Sources of this system are available for FTP at

	nic.umass.edu		128.119.166.14

Look under pub/contrib.  As of March 23 1993, there are two relevant files:

	pub/contrib/etalk0.6B.tar.Z	--- sources of the talk system
	pub/contrib/egames0.6B.tar.Z	--- more game-support files

We don't know whether this can use the additional features in GNU talk.