[xemacs-hg @ 2002-03-29 04:46:17 by ben] lots o' fixes etc/ChangeLog: New file. Separated out all entries for etc/ into their own ChangeLog. Includes entries for the following files: etc/BABYL, etc/BETA, etc/CHARSETS, etc/DISTRIB, etc/Emacs.ad, etc/FTP, etc/GNUS-NEWS, etc/GOATS, etc/HELLO, etc/INSTALL, etc/MACHINES, etc/MAILINGLISTS, etc/MSDOS, etc/MYTHOLOGY, etc/NEWS, etc/OXYMORONS, etc/PACKAGES, etc/README, etc/TUTORIAL, etc/TUTORIAL.de, etc/TUTORIAL.ja, etc/TUTORIAL.ko, etc/TUTORIAL.se, etc/aliases.ksh, etc/altrasoft-logo.xpm, etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh, etc/custom/example-themes/europe-theme.el, etc/custom/example-themes/ex-custom-file, etc/custom/example-themes/example-theme.el, etc/e/eterm.ti, etc/edt-user.doc, etc/enriched.doc, etc/etags.1, etc/gnuserv.1, etc/gnuserv.README, etc/package-index.LATEST.gpg, etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp, etc/photos/jan.png, etc/recycle.xpm, etc/refcard.tex, etc/sample.Xdefaults, etc/sample.emacs, etc/sgml/CATALOG, etc/sgml/HTML32.dtd, etc/skk/SKK.tut.E, etc/smilies/Face_ase.xbm, etc/smilies/Face_ase2.xbm, etc/smilies/Face_ase3.xbm, etc/smilies/Face_smile.xbm, etc/smilies/Face_weep.xbm, etc/sounds, etc/toolbar, etc/toolbar/workshop-cap-up.xpm, etc/xemacs-ja.1, etc/xemacs.1, etc/yow.lines, etc\BETA, etc\NEWS, etc\README, etc\TUTORIAL, etc\TUTORIAL.de, etc\check_cygwin_setup.sh, etc\sample.init.el, etc\unicode\README, etc\unicode\mule-ucs\*, etc\unicode\other\* unicode/unicode-consortium/8859-16.TXT: New file. mule/english.el: Define this charset now, since a bug was fixed that formerly prevented it. mule/ethio-util.el: Fix compile errors involving Unicode `characters', which should be integers. Makefile.in.in: Always include gui.c, to fix compile error when TTY-only. EmacsFrame.c, abbrev.c, alloc.c, buffer.c, buffer.h, bytecode.c, bytecode.h, callint.c, callproc.c, casetab.c, casetab.h, charset.h, chartab.c, chartab.h, cmds.c, console-msw.c, console-msw.h, console-tty.c, console-x.c, console-x.h, console.c, console.h, data.c, database.c, device-gtk.c, device-msw.c, device-x.c, device.c, device.h, dialog-msw.c, doc.c, doprnt.c, dumper.c, dynarr.c, editfns.c, eldap.c, eldap.h, elhash.c, elhash.h, emacs.c, eval.c, event-Xt.c, event-gtk.c, event-msw.c, event-stream.c, event-tty.c, event-unixoid.c, events.c, events.h, extents.c, extents.h, faces.c, faces.h, file-coding.c, file-coding.h, fileio.c, filelock.c, fns.c, frame-gtk.c, frame-msw.c, frame-tty.c, frame-x.c, frame.c, frame.h, free-hook.c, general-slots.h, glyphs-eimage.c, glyphs-gtk.c, glyphs-msw.c, glyphs-widget.c, glyphs-x.c, glyphs.c, glyphs.h, gpmevent.c, gtk-xemacs.c, gui-msw.c, gui-x.c, gui-x.h, gui.c, gui.h, gutter.c, gutter.h, indent.c, input-method-xlib.c, insdel.c, keymap.c, keymap.h, lisp-disunion.h, lisp-union.h, lisp.h, lread.c, lrecord.h, lstream.c, lstream.h, marker.c, menubar-gtk.c, menubar-msw.c, menubar-x.c, menubar.c, minibuf.c, mule-canna.c, mule-ccl.c, mule-charset.c, mule-wnnfns.c, native-gtk-toolbar.c, objects-msw.c, objects-tty.c, objects-x.c, objects.c, objects.h, opaque.c, opaque.h, postgresql.c, postgresql.h, print.c, process-unix.c, process.c, process.h, rangetab.c, rangetab.h, redisplay-gtk.c, redisplay-msw.c, redisplay-output.c, redisplay-tty.c, redisplay-x.c, redisplay.c, scrollbar-gtk.c, scrollbar-msw.c, scrollbar-x.c, scrollbar.c, scrollbar.h, search.c, select-gtk.c, select-x.c, sound.c, specifier.c, specifier.h, strftime.c, symbols.c, symeval.h, syntax.h, text.c, text.h, toolbar-common.c, toolbar-msw.c, toolbar.c, toolbar.h, tooltalk.c, tooltalk.h, ui-gtk.c, ui-gtk.h, undo.c, vm-limit.c, window.c, window.h: Eliminate XSETFOO. Replace all usages with wrap_foo(). Make symbol->name a Lisp_Object, not Lisp_String *. Eliminate nearly all uses of Lisp_String * in favor of Lisp_Object, and correct macros so most of them favor Lisp_Object. Create new error-behavior ERROR_ME_DEBUG_WARN -- output warnings, but at level `debug' (usually ignored). Use it when instantiating specifiers, so problems can be debugged. Move log-warning-minimum-level into C so that we can optimize ERROR_ME_DEBUG_WARN. Fix warning levels consistent with new definitions. Add default_ and parent fields to char table; not yet implemented. New fun Dynarr_verify(); use for further error checking on Dynarrs. Rearrange code at top of lisp.h in conjunction with dynarr changes. Fix eifree(). Use Eistrings in various places (format_event_object(), where_is_to_char(), and callers thereof) to avoid fixed-size strings buffers. New fun write_eistring(). Reindent and fix GPM code to follow standards. Set default MS Windows font to Lucida Console (same size as Courier New but less interline spacing, so more lines fit). Increase default frame size on Windows to 50 lines. (If that's too big for the workspace, the frame will be shrunk as necessary.) Fix problem with text files with no newlines (). (Change `convert-eol' coding system to use `nil' for autodetect, consistent with make-coding-system.) Correct compile warnings in vm-limit.c. Fix handling of reverse-direction charsets to avoid errors when opening (e.g.) mule-ucs/lisp/reldata/uiso8859-6.el. Recode some object printing methods to use write_fmt_string() instead of a fixed buffer and sprintf. Turn on display of png comments as warnings (level `info'), now that they're unobtrusive. Revamped the sound documentation. Fixed bug in redisplay w.r.t. hscroll/truncation/continuation glyphs causing jumping up and down of the lines, since they're bigger than the line size. (It was seen most obviously when there's a horizontal scroll bar, e.g. do C-h a glyph or something like that.) The problem was that the glyph-contrib-p setting on glyphs was ignored even if it was set properly, which it wasn't until now.

@node Reading Mail, Calendar/Diary, Sending Mail, Top
@chapter Reading Mail
@cindex mail
@cindex message

XEmacs provides three separate mail-reading packages.  Each one comes with
its own manual, which is included standard with the XEmacs distribution.

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.

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 VM or mh-e instead. (If at times you have to use FSF Emacs, it
is not hard to obtain and install VM for that editor.)