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[xemacs-hg @ 2001-05-31 12:45:27 by ben]
xemacs-faq.texi: Major rewrite.
Update all MS Windows info to current.
Redo section 6.1 almost completely.
Incorporate sections 1 and 2 of Hrvoje's FAQ.
etags.el: Fix infloop when going up to the root.
s\cygwin32.h: Don't unilaterally include ntplay, but only when we're compiling
with native sound (look in configure now).
event-msw.c: Fix yet more problems with C-g handling.
Implement debug-mswindows-events.
event-stream.c, events.h, signal.c, sysdep.h:
Rearrange the signal-handling code to eliminate the former
spaghetti logic paths in it. Document clearly what
"low-level" and "high-level" timeouts are. Rename some
functions with unclear names (e.g. "...alarm...") to names
that reflect what they actually do (e.g. "...async_timeout...").
Fix numerous bugs discovered in the process.
console-x.h, event-Xt.c, event-msw.c, frame-x.c:
Hopefully make XEmacs properly maintain the "iconified"
state on frames at all times. This should fix the "can't
delete a frame with C-x 5 0 when there's another iconified
frame out there" bug.
Put a notice in of further changes that should probably
be made to clean up the frame-visibility support.
(especially directed at Jan Vroonhof)
lisp.h, miscplay.c:
Rename SBufbyte to CBufbyte to avoid a misleading name.
Eliminate UChar, which is not used anywhere and contributes
no semantic info. Add a comment about the documentation-only
properties of the char/unsigned char typedefs. Add
SChar_Binary as an explicitly `signed' version of Char_Binary
and put back the `signed' declarations in miscplay.c.
alloc.c:
Use char typedefs.
console-msw.c, device-msw.c, dialog-msw.c, editfns.c, fileio.c, glyphs-eimage.c, menubar-msw.c, ntplay.c, objects-msw.c, realpath.c, redisplay-msw.c, select-msw.c, syswindows.h, win32.c:
Eliminate numerous C++ errors.
frame-msw.c:
Eliminate numerous C++ errors and Mule-ize.
glyphs-msw.c:
Eliminate numerous C++ errors and use char typedefs.
configure.in:
Fix problems detecting both native and Linux sound on Cygwin
when compiled with --with-msw=no.
Rearrange file-coding handling a bit to avoid warning when
compiling with Mule.
configure.in, configure.usage, INSTALL:
Document XEMACS_CC and corresponding compiler option --xemacs-compiler.
Explain how to build xemacs using a C++ compiler.
| author | ben |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 31 May 2001 12:45:41 +0000 |
| parents | 9d177e8d4150 |
| children | 3e13cd716cff |
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This directory tree holds version 21.2 of XEmacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This version of XEmacs also runs on various Microsoft Windows platforms including MS Windows '95 and MS Windows NT and Cygwin. See the file `etc/NEWS' for information on new features and other user-visible changes since the last version of XEmacs. The file `INSTALL' in this directory says how to bring up XEmacs on Unix and Cygwin, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory. The file `PROBLEMS' contains information on many common problems that occur in building, installing and running XEmacs. See the file `nt/README' for instructions on building XEmacs for Microsoft Windows. The file 'README.packages' will guide you in the installation of (essential) add on packages. Reports of bugs in XEmacs should be posted to the newsgroup comp.emacs.xemacs or sent to the mailing list xemacs@xemacs.org. See the "Bugs" section of the XEmacs manual for more information on how to report bugs. (The file `BUGS' in this directory explains how you can find and read that section using the Info files that come with XEmacs.) See `etc/MAILINGLISTS' for more information on mailing lists relating to XEmacs and other GNU products. The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate XEmacs to the oddities of your processor and operating system. It will create a file named `Makefile' (a script for the `make' program), which helps automate the process of building and installing emacs. See INSTALL for more detailed information. The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to construct the `configure' script. Since XEmacs has configuration requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when possible. The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create `Makefile'. There are several subdirectories: `src' holds the C code for Emacs (the XEmacs Lisp interpreter and its primitives, the redisplay code, and some basic editing functions). `lisp' holds the Emacs Lisp code for XEmacs (most everything else). `lib-src' holds the source code for some utility programs for use by or with XEmacs, like movemail and etags. `etc' holds miscellaneous architecture-independent data files XEmacs uses, like the tutorial text and the Zippy the Pinhead quote database. The contents of the `lisp', `info' and `man' subdirectories are architecture-independent too. `lwlib' holds the C code for the toolkit objects used by XEmacs. `info' holds the Info documentation tree for XEmacs. `man' holds the source code for the XEmacs info documentation tree. `nt' holds configuration files for compiling XEmacs under Microsoft Windows NT. The support for NT is very tentative right now.