2011-02-07 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with trunk.
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2011-01-21 |
Mats Lidell |
License and copyright for src/s/netbsd.h.
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2011-01-19 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with trunk.
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2011-04-26 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Added tag r21-5-latest-beta for changeset 3600e23880f7
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2011-04-26 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Added tag last-gplv2 for changeset 1c87bdc11d65
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2011-04-26 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Added tag r21-5-30 for changeset e79916901603
last-gplv2
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2011-04-26 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
XEmacs 21.5.30 "garlic" is released.
r21-5-30
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2011-04-26 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
[mq]: CHANGES-beta
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2011-04-24 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Make sure distinct symbol macros with identical names expand distinctly.
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2011-04-23 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Check types (unless `byte-compile-delete-errors' is t), #'char<, #'char=, etc.
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2011-04-23 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Automatic merge.
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2011-04-23 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Remove leftover conflict markers.
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2011-04-23 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Replace #'font-hex-string-to-number, #'font-warn with builtins, font.el
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2011-01-14 |
Mats Lidell |
Copyright and license to etc/sample.Xresource.
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2011-01-14 |
Mats Lidell |
Added copyright and license to modules/common/configure-*
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2011-01-14 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with trunk.
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2011-01-07 |
Mats Lidell |
Win32.cf and site.def removed since not used and part of X11 dist.
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2011-01-07 |
Mats Lidell |
Copyright and license added to nt/xemacs.dsp.
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2011-01-07 |
Mats Lidell |
nt/Emacs.ad.h attributed to David Hobley plus license added.
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2011-01-07 |
Mats Lidell |
License comment terminated.
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2011-01-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Copyright and license to src/s/sol2.h.
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2011-01-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Copyright and license for Makefiles in modules/base64 and modules/zlib
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2011-01-05 |
Mats Lidell |
Merged with trunk.
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2010-12-31 |
Mats Lidell |
Added copyright and license to etc/xemacs.1.
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2010-12-30 |
Mats Lidell |
Removed SCO files.
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2010-12-30 |
Mats Lidell |
Merged with trunk.
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2010-12-26 |
Mats Lidell |
Added copyright notices and GPLv3 license to PROBLEMS and Emacs.ad.
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2010-12-11 |
Mats Lidell |
Removed editclient.sh due to unclear authorship.
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2010-12-11 |
Mats Lidell |
Copyright and short license added to etc/gtkrc.
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2010-12-11 |
Mats Lidell |
Added copyright notices and GPLV3 or later license to NEWS files.
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2010-12-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Added property notice and license to ChangeLogs.
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2010-12-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Merged with trunk.
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2010-11-26 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with 21.5 trunk.
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2010-11-15 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with 21.5 trunk.
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2010-11-12 |
Mats Lidell |
Added GPLv3 or later license to modules/README.
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2010-11-12 |
Mats Lidell |
Added GPLv3 or later license and copyright notice to GTK ChangeLogs.
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2010-11-07 |
Mats Lidell |
Added README for the GPLv3 or later conversion.
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2010-11-07 |
Mats Lidell |
Added copyright notice with year 1998.
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2010-11-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Merge with trunk.
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2010-11-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert man/texinfo.tex from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later.
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2010-11-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Use GNU version which is GPLv3 or later.
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2010-11-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted refcard to from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later.
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2010-11-06 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted gnuserv docs to GPLv3 or later.
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2010-11-05 |
Mats Lidell |
Sync HELLO with FSF
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2010-11-04 |
Mats Lidell |
COPYING in etc updated to GPLv3 or later
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2010-11-04 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert misc remaining files with GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later
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2010-11-02 |
Mats Lidell |
Rebase with removal of netinstall on trunk
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2010-10-31 |
Mike Sperber |
Migrate the rest of tests/ to GPLv3.
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2010-10-31 |
Mike Sperber |
Migrate lwlib/ to GPLv3.
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2010-10-30 |
Mats Lidell |
Clarify the license for the different parts of the unicode folder
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2010-10-28 |
Mats Lidell |
Rebase with 21.5 trunk.
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2010-10-27 |
Mats Lidell |
Inserted copyright and GPLv3 or later license as properties in photos
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2010-10-27 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted modules to GPLv3 or later.
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2010-10-27 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted the modules samples to GPLv3 or later.
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2010-10-26 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert to GPLv3 misc files.
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2010-10-26 |
Mats Lidell |
Added GPLv3 or later notice to png files with art work.
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2010-10-25 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted to GPLv3 plain text GPLv2 files in etc/unicode
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2010-10-23 |
Mats Lidell |
Add explicit GPLv3 or later to xpm and xbm graphics.
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2010-10-23 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert to GPLv3 or later from plain text GPLv2 or later.
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2010-10-23 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted to GPLv3 or later. Written by Stephen Turnbull hence.GPLv2 or later.
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2010-10-20 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert aclocal.m4 to GPLv3 as it was GPLv2 by the author.
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2010-10-20 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert part of root folder to GPLv3.
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2010-10-19 |
Mats Lidell |
Converted tooltalk to GPLv3 according to GPLv3 source survey analysis.
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2010-10-19 |
Mats Lidell |
Convert remainder in "tests" with plain text GPLv2 to GPLv3
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2010-10-18 |
Mike Sperber |
Convert lib-src/ to GPLv3.
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2010-10-15 |
Mike Sperber |
Move src/ to GPLv3.
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2010-10-15 |
Mike Sperber |
Convert lisp/ to GPLv3.
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2010-10-15 |
Mike Sperber |
Added -x flag to configure.
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2010-10-14 |
Mats Lidell |
Changed bulk of GPLv2 or later files identified by script
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2011-04-17 |
Jeff Sparkes |
Fix compile issues for C89 compilers. Use log() instead of log2().
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2011-04-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add various Common Lisp character functions, making porting CL code easier.
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2011-04-14 |
Jeff Sparkes |
Merge tty display color cells change that I couldn't push.
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2011-03-28 |
Jeff Sparkes |
issue 757 - tty device metric for num-color-cells
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2011-04-12 |
Aidan Kehoe |
No longer create windows-874 as a Win32-specific coding system; thanks Mats!
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2011-04-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Drop support for Thai-XTIS, which was always non-standard and never used.
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2011-04-04 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct some interactions of :from-end and :count, #'delete*, #'remove*
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2011-04-04 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct some nesting of GCPRO and UNGCPRO, thank you Mats' buildbot!
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2011-04-03 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use GC_EXTERNAL_LIST_LOOP_* where appropriate, fns.c
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2011-04-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'cadr, #'caddr, #'cadddr; document some equivalences.
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2011-04-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Implement #'load-time-value less hackishly, by modifying the byte compiler.
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2011-04-02 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
New FAQ Q2.5.7 on troubleshooting duplicate auto-autoloads.
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2011-03-30 |
Jerry James |
Typo fix: use a semicolon instead of a comma at the end of a statement.
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2011-03-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Automated merge with ssh://sperber-guest@hg.debian.org//hg/xemacs/xemacs
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2011-03-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Drop #'cl-finite-do, defalias #'cl-float-limits to #'ignore in dumped XEmacs
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2011-03-29 |
Jerry James |
Make listu() and listn() assemble lists in forward order. Use them.
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2011-03-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Give docstrings to least-{positive,negative}-normalized-float, float-*epsilon
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2011-03-24 |
Jerry James |
Fix misspelled words, and some grammar, across the entire source tree.
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2011-03-24 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'custom-add-to-group: warn if GROUP is nil.
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2011-03-22 |
Mats Lidell |
Remove use of auto keyword. It is default and will be illegal in C++0X.
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2011-03-17 |
Didier Verna |
Improve read-only error reporting.
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2011-03-21 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add compiler macros for #'revappend, #'nreconc.
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2011-03-21 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'cl-non-fixnum-number-p: return t for integers > #x3fffffff and < -#x40000000
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2011-03-19 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Improve support for min-colors req in `defface'.
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2011-03-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct some minor problems in my last change.
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2011-03-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Eliminate unused blocks named nil, too, cl-macs.el, bytecomp.el
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2011-03-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Merge.
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2011-03-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Conditionalise the old-* functions and byte codes at compile time.
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2011-03-17 |
Jeff Sparkes |
Add min-colors specifier to defface, and document it.
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2011-03-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Update png_instantiate () to work with more recent versions of libpng.
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2011-03-12 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Be better about searching for chars typed via XIM and x-compose.el, isearch
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2011-03-11 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Address the easy test failures in tests/automated.
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2011-03-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Eliminate byte-compile warnings, core Lisp.
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2011-03-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use ', not #', when a given symbol may not have a function binding at read time
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2011-03-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use Common Lisp-derived builtins in a few more places in core Lisp.
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2011-03-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Examining the result of #'length: `eql', not `=', it's better style & cheaper
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2011-03-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Remove redundant functions, format.el, use functions from cl*.el instead.
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2011-03-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Make my Lisp a little more sophisticated, select.el.
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2011-03-08 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Remove various redundant wrapper lambdas, core lisp.
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2011-03-01 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Automated merge with file:///home/aidan/xemacs-21.5-checked-out
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2011-03-01 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Change "special form" to "special operator" in the manuals, too
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2011-02-24 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'substring-no-properties: check STRING's type, get_string_range_char won't.
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2011-02-19 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Document the CL set functions and #'eql in the Lispref, not just cl.texi
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2011-02-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'byte-compile-normal-call; only examine properties of (car FORM) if a symbol
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2011-02-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
xemacs.def.in.in: no longer export acons(), export Facons() instead.
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2011-02-12 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Be better about eliminating `block's that are not `return-from'd, bytecomp.el
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2011-02-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct a bug with circularity checking in #'mapcar*, #'map, etc.
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2011-02-09 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Remove #'acons from cl.el, make the version in alloc.c visible to Lisp
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2011-02-07 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Improve the lexical scoping in #'block, #'return-from.
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2011-02-07 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct the order of arguments to map_keymap_sort_predicate(), keymap.c.
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2011-02-06 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Supply check_string_lessp_nokey explicitly to list_sort(), #'apropos-internal
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2011-02-05 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Have #'sort*, #'merge use the same test approach as functions from cl-seq.el
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2011-01-30 |
Mike Sperber |
Unbreak font-lock during `revert-buffer.
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2011-01-30 |
Mike Sperber |
Don't commit suicide when an X device dies.
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2011-01-23 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Loop at macroexpansion time when sanity-checking :start, :end keyword args.
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2011-01-23 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix some testsuite failures, #'delete, #'delq, #'remove, #'remq.
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2011-01-23 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use Ben's recently-introduced listu (), where appropriate.
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2011-01-22 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Don't quote keywords, they've been self-quoting for well over a decade.
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2011-01-22 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Automated merge with ssh://sperber-guest@hg.debian.org//hg/xemacs/xemacs
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2011-01-22 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Require that NAME be an unquoted symbol, #'block, #'return-from
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2011-01-18 |
Mike Sperber |
Zap freebsd.h.
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2011-01-15 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Try again, s/usg5-4.h, this type with qxestrcpy_ascii(), etc.
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2011-01-15 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Accept more complex TYPEs in #'concatenate, cl-extra.el
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2011-01-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Move #'delq, #'delete to Lisp, adding support for sequences.
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2011-01-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Change to qxesprintf(), qxestrcpy(), s/hpux11.h, s/usg5-4.h
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2011-01-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Pass in the DEFAULT argument to position() as documented, #'find.
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2011-01-11 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Replace POSIX index(3) with C89 strchr(3), lwlib-fonts.c
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2011-01-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Replace some C++ comments with C89-style /* */ comments, mc-alloc.c
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2011-01-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct a misplaced parenthesis in #'make-dialog-box, thank you Mats!
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Let's try that last commit again; remove some more duplicate declarations.
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Avoid duplicate declarations, assumptions about HAVE_BIGNUM, fns.c
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use defun*, not cl-parsing-keywords, #'make-dialog-box, #'display-completion-list
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Tweak a few compiler macros for functions in cl-seq.el.
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Merge.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Move the heavy lifting from cl-seq.el to C.
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2011-01-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use defmacro* when defining dolist, dotimes, do-symbols, macrolet, cl-macs.el
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2011-01-01 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Be more helpful in printing ephemerons, weak lists, and weak boxes.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Provide #'device-x-display, as documented in Lispref; thanks, Jeff Mincy.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Test sanity-checking of :start, :end keyword arguments when appropriate.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Support up to nine keywords in the PARSE_KEYWORDS() macro.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Implement some basic Lisp functions in terms of Common Lisp builtins.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Move Qcount, Q_default, Q_test to general-slots.h; add SYMBOL_KEYWORD_GENERAL()
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
cl-macs belongs in lisp-files-needed-for-byte-compilation.
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2010-12-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Provide some milquetoast compatibility in our errors, type-error, program-error
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'delete-duplicates: don't attempt to compiler macroexpand with bad arguments
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'cl-safe-expr-p, forms that start with the symbol lambda are also safe.
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'float: if handed a bigfloat, give the same bigfloat back.
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
= < > <= >=: it's OK to use the compiler macro when first, last args side effect
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Unrool a load-time loop at macro expansion time, cl-macs.el
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Avoid some dynamic scope stupidity in interpreted code, #'notany, #'notevery.
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2010-12-29 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Mark #'remove, #'remq as free of side-effects.
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2010-11-30 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Remove gratuitously added version marker from CHANGES-beta.
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2010-11-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
#'fill; move all declarations before statements, for the Visual Studio build
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2010-11-24 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix my last change when both --with-union-type and --with-xft, thanks Robert.
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2010-11-20 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Have NATNUMP give t for positive bignums; check limits appropriately.
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2010-11-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Handle bignum N correctly, #'butlast, #'nbutlast.
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2010-11-17 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Handle slightly more complex type specifications, #'coerce, #'typep.
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2010-11-15 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Remove lrecord_type_popup_data, lrecord_type_window_configuration, .gdbinit.in
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2010-11-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix some bugs in fns.c, discovered in passing while doing other work.
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2010-11-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct argument name in docstring, #'random.
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2010-11-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix a bytecomp.el bug compiling #'eql, which was masked by cl-macs.el
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2010-11-06 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Accept sequences generally, not just lists, #'reverse, #'nreverse.
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2010-11-06 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Error in #'list-length if LIST is dotted; check for this error with #'mapcar
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2010-11-02 |
Mats Lidell |
Remove netinstall.
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2010-11-01 |
Mats Lidell |
Added tag last-version-with-netinstall for changeset d185fa593d5f
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2010-10-25 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Specify ERROR_ME_WARN explicitly in specifier_instance_from_inst_list().
last-version-with-netinstall
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2010-10-25 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Make sure (format "%b" 0) is non-zero length, print.c
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2010-10-25 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add compiler macros and compilation sanity-checks for functions with keywords.
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2010-10-18 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
In emodules_load(), dereference f = dll_variable() once more.
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2010-10-18 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Merge some permissions corrections to trunk.
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2010-10-18 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency.
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2010-06-14 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency.
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2010-06-14 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency.
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2010-06-14 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency. (Opps, missed one.)
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2010-06-14 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency.
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2010-06-13 |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
More permission consistency.
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2010-10-14 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Tighten up Common Lisp compatibility, #'butlast, #'nbutlast, #'tailp, #'ldiff
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2010-10-12 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Make the order of preloaded-file-list more sane.
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2010-10-12 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Don't share a counter when checking for circularity, list_merge().
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2010-10-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Warn at byte-compile in #'the if FORM constant & not TYPE; fix byte-compile-constp
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2010-10-10 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Remove a couple of redundant functions, backquote.el
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2010-09-20 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use GET_DEFUN_LISP_OBJECT() in PARSE_KEYWORDS(), fix former under NEW_GC.
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2010-09-18 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Turns out #elsif is not valid preprocessor syntax, who knew!
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2010-09-18 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct the NEW_GC non-DEBUG_XEMACS version of PARSE_KEYWORDS().
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2010-09-18 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Simplify the API of PARSE_KEYWORDS for callers.
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2010-09-18 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add some missing #includes, termcap.c, hopefully fixing Adam Sjoegren's build.
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2010-09-18 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Avoid statement-before-declaration problems with strict C89 builds, fns.c
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add an omitted comma, Check-Message, test-harness.el.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Accept circular lists where that is useful in #'mapcar*, #'map* and friends.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Be better about bounds-checking, #'subseq, #'fill; add same, #'reduce.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Don't uselessly call #'nreverse, #'hash-table-key-list and friends.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Use #'some, #'every, etc. for composing boolean operations on lists.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Rephrase the #'the docstring, make it nicer while byte-compiling.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Avoid byte compiler warnings, some needless consing, descr-text.el
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Change forms like (delq nil (mapcar ...)) to (mapcan ...).
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Transform safe calls to (= X Y Z) to (and (= X Y) (= Y Z)); same for < > <= >=
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Warn at compile time, error at runtime, with (quote X Y), (function X Y).
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Change (apply 'nconc (mapcar ...)) to (mapcan ...); warn about first form.
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2010-09-16 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add an implementation for #'the, cl-macs.el
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2010-09-07 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Replace a doubled semi-colon with a single semi-colon, fns.c, for VS6's sake.
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2010-09-06 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Move #'replace to C, add bounds-checking to it and to #'fill.
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2010-09-05 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add support for the X11 dead-stroke in x-compose.el.
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2010-09-05 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Read and print char table defaults, chartab.c
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2010-09-05 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add a couple of extra docstring backslashes, #'format-time-string
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2010-09-03 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Add fixnum as an accepted destination type, #'coerce
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2010-09-03 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix the C++, Visual Studio 2005 builds.
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2010-09-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Support process plists, for greater GNU compatibility.
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2010-09-02 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Support Roman month numbers, #'format-time-string
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2010-09-01 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fewer algorithmic complexity surprises, nicer errors, mapcarX(), maplist()
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2010-08-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Fix style, documentation for rounding functions and multiple values.
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2010-08-30 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Correct the encoding of asjo@koldfront.dk's name, src/ChangeLog is in
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2010-08-27 |
Vin Shelton |
Apply GIF colormap fix from Adam Sjogren for issues 150 and 713
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2010-08-20 |
Mike Sperber |
Add `save-some-buffers-action-alist'.
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2010-08-21 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Automated merge with ssh://sperber-guest@hg.debian.org//hg/xemacs/xemacs
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2010-08-21 |
Aidan Kehoe |
Make Lisp reader errors more informative with over-long hex, octal characters
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