various frame-geometry fixes -------------------- ChangeLog entries follow: -------------------- src/ChangeLog addition: 2010-02-15 Ben Wing <ben@xemacs.org> * EmacsFrame.c: * EmacsFrame.c (EmacsFrameResize): * console-msw-impl.h: * console-msw-impl.h (struct mswindows_frame): * console-msw-impl.h (FRAME_MSWINDOWS_TARGET_RECT): * device-tty.c: * device-tty.c (tty_asynch_device_change): * event-msw.c: * event-msw.c (mswindows_wnd_proc): * faces.c (Fface_list): * faces.h: * frame-gtk.c: * frame-gtk.c (gtk_set_initial_frame_size): * frame-gtk.c (gtk_set_frame_size): * frame-msw.c: * frame-msw.c (mswindows_init_frame_1): * frame-msw.c (mswindows_set_frame_size): * frame-msw.c (mswindows_size_frame_internal): * frame-msw.c (msprinter_init_frame_3): * frame.c: * frame.c (enum): * frame.c (Fmake_frame): * frame.c (adjust_frame_size): * frame.c (store_minibuf_frame_prop): * frame.c (Fframe_property): * frame.c (Fframe_properties): * frame.c (Fframe_displayable_pixel_height): * frame.c (Fframe_displayable_pixel_width): * frame.c (internal_set_frame_size): * frame.c (Fset_frame_height): * frame.c (Fset_frame_pixel_height): * frame.c (Fset_frame_displayable_pixel_height): * frame.c (Fset_frame_width): * frame.c (Fset_frame_pixel_width): * frame.c (Fset_frame_displayable_pixel_width): * frame.c (Fset_frame_size): * frame.c (Fset_frame_pixel_size): * frame.c (Fset_frame_displayable_pixel_size): * frame.c (frame_conversion_internal_1): * frame.c (get_frame_displayable_pixel_size): * frame.c (change_frame_size_1): * frame.c (change_frame_size): * frame.c (generate_title_string): * frame.h: * gtk-xemacs.c: * gtk-xemacs.c (gtk_xemacs_size_request): * gtk-xemacs.c (gtk_xemacs_size_allocate): * gtk-xemacs.c (gtk_xemacs_paint): * gutter.c: * gutter.c (update_gutter_geometry): * redisplay.c (end_hold_frame_size_changes): * redisplay.c (redisplay_frame): * toolbar.c: * toolbar.c (update_frame_toolbars_geometry): * window.c: * window.c (frame_pixsize_valid_p): * window.c (check_frame_size): Various fixes to frame geometry to make it a bit easier to understand and fix some bugs. 1. IMPORTANT: Some renamings. Will need to be applied carefully to the carbon repository, in the following order: -- pixel_to_char_size -> pixel_to_frame_unit_size -- char_to_pixel_size -> frame_unit_to_pixel_size -- pixel_to_real_char_size -> pixel_to_char_size -- char_to_real_pixel_size -> char_to_pixel_size -- Reverse second and third arguments of change_frame_size() and change_frame_size_1() to try to make functions consistent in putting width before height. -- Eliminate old round_size_to_char, because it didn't really do anything differently from round_size_to_real_char() -- round_size_to_real_char -> round_size_to_char; any places that called the old round_size_to_char should just call the new one. 2. IMPORTANT FOR CARBON: The set_frame_size() method is now passed sizes in "frame units", like all other frame-sizing functions, rather than some hacked-up combination of char-cell units and total pixel size. This only affects window systems that use "pixelated geometry", and I'm not sure if Carbon is one of them. MS Windows is pixelated, X and GTK are not. For pixelated-geometry systems, the size in set_frame_size() is in displayable pixels rather than total pixels and needs to be converted appropriately; take a look at the changes made to mswindows_set_frame_size() method if necessary. 3. Add a big long comment in frame.c describing how frame geometry works. 4. Remove MS Windows-specific character height and width fields, duplicative and unused. 5. frame-displayable-pixel-* and set-frame-displayable-pixel-* didn't use to work on MS Windows, but they do now. 6. In general, clean up the handling of "pixelated geometry" so that fewer functions have to worry about this. This is really an abomination that should be removed entirely but that will have to happen later. Fix some buggy code in frame_conversion_internal() that happened to "work" because it was countered by oppositely buggy code in change_frame_size(). 7. Clean up some frame-size code in toolbar.c and use functions already provided in frame.c instead of rolling its own. 8. Fix check_frame_size() in window.c, which formerly didn't take pixelated geometry into account.

@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.