[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.

Reference:    Robert W. Brockway, Myth from the Ice Age to Mickey Mouse

    A collective definition of myth composed of many theories might be
    framed by the following paraphrase:

    Myths are stories, usually, about gods and other supernatural
    beings.  They are often stories of origins, how the world and
    everything in it came to be in illo tempore.  They are usually
    strongly structured and their meaning is only discerned by
    linguistic analysis.  Sometimes they are public dreams which, like
    private dreams, emerge from the unconscious mind.  Indeed, they
    often reveal the archetypes of the collective unconscious.  They
    are symbolic and metaphorical.  They orient people to the
    metaphysical dimension, explain the origins and nature of the
    cosmos, validate social issues, and, on the psychological plane,
    address themselves to the innermost depths of the psyche.  Some of
    them are explanatory, being prescientific attempts to interpret
    the natural world.  As such, they are usually functional and are
    the science of primitive peoples.  Often, they are enacted in
    rituals.  Religious myths are sacred histories, and distinguished
    from the profane.  But, being semiotic expressions, they are a
    "disease of language."  They are both individual and social in
    scope, but they are first and foremost stories.