Changes in this version:
* etc/OXYMORONS: Inserted "Corporate Culture" for 21.4.15.
* etc/package-index.LATEST.gpg: New, replaces
`package-index.LATEST.pgp'.
* etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp: Removed, replaced with
`package-index.LATEST.gpg'.
* configure.in: The icc compiler pretends to be gcc. It isn't.
* etc/PACKAGES (ERC): new.
* configure.usage (--with-widgets): widgets now defaults to
--with-widgets=no. Patch inspired by Jim Schumacher.
* etc/PACKAGES (riece): New package.
* etc/PACKAGES (liece): Mark as deprecated.
* configure.in: Add Intel C++ compiler detection to compiler
version reporting.
* configure.in: record additional info about compiler and libc
versions, to assist in debugging.
* configure.in (line 3573):
(Mule input methods):
Deprecate Motif for Linux.
(Installation): Report when LessTif is used.
* configure.in: installexe.sh is under srcdir, not blddir.
* aclocal.m4: Add icc (Intel compiler) support.
* configure.in: Ditto.
* configure.in (OS_RELEASE): Add support for SunOS 5.10.
On current OSes produced by Sun, `uname -r' prints "5.9".
It seems likely that on future OSes, `uname -r' will print "5.10".
We need to accept multi-digit release numbers.
* PROBLEMS: Propose bash as an alternative to buggy Solaris
/bin/sh.
* configure.in: XEmacs failed to build on Solaris9.
Changes from the release note.
-- Fix: Make sure local variables get processed -- Andy Piper
-- Fix: Make Windows scrollwheel work even if no scrollbars -- Ren Kyllingstad
-- Fix: Fix bytecompiler infinite recursion -- Michael Toomim
-- Fix: Handle embedded carriage returns in make-docfile -- Andrew Begel
-- Fix: Regexp matching of degenerate word boundaries -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Don't use DB_AUTO_COMMIT in database.c -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: FAQ, docstring and PROBLEMS corrections -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Discard docstrings in compiler only if appropriate -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Reverse bogus regexp tests -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Modify configure to add -fno-strict-aliasing to gcc -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Disable event compression under Motif -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Enable -DREGEX_MALLOC by default -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Turn off widgets by default -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Add docstrings for lisp-mode hooks -- Vasily Korytov
-- Fix: Support MacOSX shared library loading -- Andrew Begel
-- Fix: Font-lock fix for defuns -- Adrian Aichner
-- Fix: cl-macs generated incorrect docstrings -- Nickolay Pakoulin
-- Fix: Remove bogus key definitions -- Jerry James
-- Update: Latest package index -- Norbert Koch
-- Update: about.el information -- Vin Shelton
-- Update: Use X Font Sets in sample.Xdefaults -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Update: etc/PACKAGES -- Stephen Turnbull
* The XEmacs Project announced that 21.4 is the official stable branch.
21.4.12 is the first release of the branch. The XEmacs 21.1 series
is retired.
* Changes new in 21.4 are as below
* Changes in XEmacs 21.4
========================
** Summary of user-visible changes:
-- The delete key now deletes forward by default.
-- Shifted motion keys now select text by default.
-- You can now build XEmacs with support for GTK+ widget set.
-- ~/.xemacs/init.el is now the preferred location for the init file.
- XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file.
- Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
-- Much-improved sample init.el, showing how to use many useful features.
-- XEmacs support for menu accelerators has been much improved.
-- Default menubar improvements.
- Default menubar has many new commands and better organization.
- The font-menu is now available under MS Windows.
-- Dialog box improvements, including a real file dialog box.
- XEmacs now has a proper file dialog box under MS Windows (and GTK)!
- The old clunky file dialog box is improved.
- Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes.
- There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find...
-- New buffer tabs.
-- There is a new MS Windows installer, netinstall, ported from Cygwin.
-- The subprocess quote-handling mechanism under Windows is much improved.
-- Printing support now available under MS Windows.
-- Selection improvements.
- Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard under Windows.
- MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
- Motif selection support is now more correct (but slower).
-- Mail spool locking now works correctly.
-- International support changes.
- The default coding-priority-list is now safer.
- International keysyms are now supported under X.
- MS Windows 1251 code page now supported.
- Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic now supported.
- Proper support for words in Latin 3 and Latin 4.
-- Help buffers contain hyperlinks, and other changes.
-- The modeline's text is now scrollable.
-- The mouse wheel under MS Windows now functions correctly.
-- Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
- Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches.
- Interactive searches always respect uppercase characters.
-- Rectangle functions rewritten to avoid inserting extra spaces.
-- New command `kill-entire-line' that always kills the entire line.
-- Default values correctly stored in minibuffer histories.
-- You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs.
-- Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented.
-- Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets.
-- User names following a tilde can now be completed at file name prompts.
-- XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD).
-- X-Face support is now available under MS Windows.
-- The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
-- Indentation no longer indents comments that begin at column zero.
-- Face and variable settings can have comments in Customize.
-- New locations for early package hierarchies.
-- The `auto-save' library has been greatly improved.
-- New variable `mswindows-alt-by-itself-activates-menu'.
-- Other init-file-related changes.
- Init file in your home directory may be called `.emacs.el'.
- New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
-- Etags changes.
- In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
- New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.
- New option --declarations, for C-type languages.
- In C++, tags are created for "operator".
- Ada now supported.
- In Fortran, procedure is no longer tagged.
- In Java, tags are created for "interface".
- In Lisp, def-type constructs are now tagged.
- In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables.
- Python now supported.
- New file extensions recognized: .ss, .pdb, .psw.
