Move the various map* functions to C; add #'map-into. src/ChangeLog addition: 2010-01-31 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> Move #'mapcar*, #'mapcan, #'mapc, #'map, #'mapl, #'mapcon to C; extend #'mapvector, #'mapconcat, #'mapcar to support more SEQUENCES; have them all error with circular lists. * fns.c (Fsubseq): Call CHECK_SEQUENCE here; Flength can return from the debugger if it errors with a non-sequence, leading to a crash in Fsubseq if sequence really is *not* a sequence. (mapcarX): Rename mapcar1 to mapcarX; rework it comprehensively to take an optional lisp output argument, and a varying number of sequences. Special-case a single list argument, as we used to, saving its elements in the stack space for the results before calling FUNCTION, so FUNCTION can corrupt the list all it wants. dead_wrong_type_argument() in the other cases if we encounter a non-cons where we expected a cons. (Fmapconcat): Accept further SEQUENCES after separator here. Special-case the idiom (mapconcat 'identity SEQUENCE), don't even funcall. (FmapcarX): Rename this from Fmapcar. Accept optional SEQUENCES. (Fmapvector): Accept optional SEQUENCES. (Fmapcan, Fmapc, Fmap): Move these here from cl-extra.el. (Fmap_into): New function, as specified by Common Lisp. (maplist): New function, the guts of the implementation of Fmaplist and Fmapl. (Fmaplist, Fmapl, Fmapcon): Move these from cl-extra.el. (syms_of_fns): Add a few needed symbols here, for the type tests used by #'map. Add the new subrs, with aliases for #'mapc-internal and #'mapcar. * general-slots.h: Declare Qcoerce here, now it's used in both indent.c and fns.c * indent.c (syms_of_indent): Qcoerce is gone from here. * lisp.h: Add ARRAYP(), SEQUENCEP(), and the corresponding CHECK_* macros. Declare Fbit_vector, Fstring, FmapcarX, now other files need to use them. * data.c (Farrayp, Fsequencep): Use ARRAYP and SEQUENCEP, just added to lisp.h * buffer.c (Fbuffer_list): Now Fmapcar has been renamed FmapcarX and takes MANY arguments, update this function to reflect that. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2010-01-31 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * cl.el (mapcar*): Delete; this is now in fns.c. Use #'mapc, not #'mapc-internal in a couple of places. * cl-macs.el (mapc, mapcar*, map): Delete these compiler macros now the corresponding functions are in fns.c; there's no run-time advantage to the macros. * cl-extra.el (coerce): Extend the possible conversions here a little; it's not remotely comprehensive yet, though it does allow running slightly more Common Lisp code than previously. (cl-mapcar-many): Delete. (map, maplist, mapc, mapl, mapcan, mapcon): Move these to fns.c. * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-maybe-mapc): Use #'mapc itself, not #'mapc-internal, now the former is in C. (mapcar*): Use #'byte-compile-maybe-mapc as this function's byte-compile method, now a #'mapc that can take more than one sequence is in C. * obsolete.el (cl-mapc): Move this compatibility alias to this file. * update-elc.el (do-autoload-commands): Use #'mapc, not #'mapc-internal here.

@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.