Changes:
Build
* Autoconf tweaks for building modules on MacOSX - James.
* GCC fixes in ellcc.c - James.
* Module Makefile fixes - Begel, James.
* Fix shadow warning in regex.c - James.
Documentation
* New TeXinfo node "Searching and Matching" - Turnbull.
* New section "Legacy Versions" in FAQ - Turnbull.
* New FAQ question Q8.0.1 - Turnbull.
* Update split-string specs in "Regexp Search" - Turnbull.
Internals
* Package index file updated - Koch.
* Add some debug checks in file-coding.c - Turnbull.
Lisp API
* Make error message report the sym checked in `autoload-featurep-protect-autoloads' - Turnbull.
* `split-string' tweaks - Turnbull.
* Make the location of the package-index file user customisable - Youngs.
* Turn on package-index file PGP verification - Youngs.
* Only use message if interactive for functions in replace.el - Josefsson.
Major change:
The long standing TTY/keyboard bug, the one where RET was behaving
like LFD, is gone! Yes, that's right folks, you can once again use
XEmacs on a TTY.
The rest are the hundreds of bugfixes that usually come with a
beta software.
This release fixes the problem with scrambled screens when using
xemacs in a terminal. Other changes are numerous as its a -current.
Mainly bug fixes.
Please see http://www.xemacs.org for details.
Changes excerpted from ${WRKSRC}/CHANGES-beta.
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Lots of updates from Ben Wing (as always), also from Andy Piper, Mike
Sperber, and Stephen Turnbull with lots of documentation updates and
fixes. One new exciting addition in this release is that the LDAP and
PostgreSQL code has been extracted out of the core C code and moved to
DSO's. We have Jerry James to thank/blame/worship for that.
Build
-- Reset sheap-adjustment to zero - Piper.
-- Make --pdump default to yes on Linux - Turnbull.
-- Only use -Wpacked in GCC v3 - Wing.
-- Remove LISP_FLOAT_TYPE definition. - James.
-- Temporarily disable DSO's under Cygwin - Wing.
-- Updates to DSO building code (Makefile.in, configure.in etc) - Wing, James.
-- Separate compiler warning flags from CFLAGS - Wing.
-- Delete auto-autoloads.e* & custom-load.e* on 'make clean' - Turnbull.
-- Disable detection of 'getaddrinfo' for HP-UX 11.XX - Turnbull.
-- Include modules directories in 'make tags' - Youngs.
-- Fix shadowing warnings in make-docfile.c - Wing.
-- Move the common stuff from postgresql/ldap Makefile.in.in &
configure.ac's into a "common" Makefile and configure script -
Wing.
-- Major cleanup of ellcc - Wing, James.
-- Add Makefile var to pick up '--site-libraries' in DSO's - Youngs.
-- Avoid unnecessary deviations from UNIX 'describe-installation' in
xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Don't confirm overwriting files in xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Support 'xemacs_extra_name' in xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Some gcc/g++ 3 fixes - Wing.
-- Warning fixes - Wing.
-- Fix some C++ errors - Wing.
-- Allow for C needing volatile and C++ that can't have volatile,
remove previous volatile hacks - Wing.
-- Try for a working Cygwin build with old unexec - Wing.
-- Warning suppression - Turnbull.
-- New Mule character class regexp tests - Turnbull, Ueno.
-- Better handling of known bugs in tests - Turnbull.
-- Add test for stale subexpr match-data - Turnbull.
-- Update syntax-table tests - Turnbull.
-- Add word-boundary regexp tests - Turnbull.
Documentation
-- Updates to PROBLEMS file
Running/Linux - Lesstif 0.93.36 - Turnbull
Running/IRIX - Irix 6.5 coredumps - Turnbull
Running/Cygwin - "No cygXpm-noX" fatal error - Turnbull
Missing charsets - Remove ambiguity - Turnbull
Running, General - FontSet warnings - Turnbull
MacOS/X - Stack limitation - Turnbull
Digital Unix - Generalise - Turnbull
AIX - USE_KKCC lossage - Turnbull.
-- Update instructions in info/dir - Wallington.
-- Recommend TeXinfo 4.2 in INSTALL - Turnbull.
-- Add example in sample.Xdefaults - Boffi.
-- Typo fixes - Yamaoka, Youngs, Turnbull, Wing.
-- Docstring fixes - Turnbull, Piper, Skyttä, Wing.
-- Update description of XEmacs Patches and Design ML's - Turnbull.
-- Incorportate ChangeLog.X into ChangeLog - Wing.
-- FAQ additions/amendments:
Debugging FAQ improvements - Wing.
Mention union type bugs - Turnbull.
Debugging HOWTO improvements - Turnbull.
Decoding Lisp objects in the debugger - Turnbull.
Fix location of FAQ on website - Skyttä.
Add missing menu entry for Q3.2.7 - Verna.
Displaying non-ASCII - Turnbull.
Mention bug report commands - Turnbull.
Revise Q1.3.[1-6] - Turnbull.
New FAQ for "no cygXpm-noX" fatal error - Turnbull.
-- New TeXinfo nodes:
"Widget Internals" - Turnbull.
"Simple Specifier Usage" - Turnbull.
"Compilation Options" - Turnbull.
-- Document charset Unification and Tables - Turnbull.
-- Better short description of Mule in Mule submenu - Turnbull.
-- Regression Testing XEmacs design hints & rewrite - Turnbull.
-- Document 'face-frob-from-locale-first' - Golubev.
-- Document 'set-face-background-pixmap-file' - Verna.
-- Add urefs to Doug Lea's * Wolfram Gloger's home pages in "Low-Level
Modules" - Turnbull.
-- Update "Available Packages" - Skyttä.
-- Document 'append' arg of 'add-to-list' - Skyttä.
-- Add optimisation hints in "Techniques for XEmacs Developers" - Turnbull.
Internals
-- Add *menubar*FontSet and *popup*FontSet entries - Turnbull, Skyttä.
-- Extract ldap and postgresql code from core and put them into DSO's - James.
-- 'Fset_window_point' Correct to GNU/Emacs behaviour (fixes some bugs
in Gnus) - Wing.
-- Inhibit GC in critical sections - Wing.
-- Fix calculation in 'report_sheap_usage' - Piper.
-- Implement and use new var 'garbage_collection_messages' - Wallington.
-- Fix 'open_database' for Berkeley DB 4.1.x - Allen.
-- Updates to frame code - Sperber.
-- Change C debugger entrance: error message, then stack trace, then
exiting message, then force debugger - Wing.
-- Use EQ not EQUAL in 'mswindows_init_frame_1' - Wing.
-- Better redisplay-related asserts - Wing.
-- Don't generate large warning strings when they'll be discarded - Wing.
-- Implement 'debug-on-error' as documented - Wing.
-- Fix docs relating to QUIT which can't GC under any circumstances - Wing.
-- More robust package compilation and debugging - Wing.
-- Overhaul profile code - Wing.
-- Fix crashes due to incorrectly ported GNU/Emacs code - Wing.
-- Clean up realpath.c - Wing.
-- DdeCreateStringHandle needs to be manual due to new Cygwin bug - Wing.
-- Fix some Cygwin complaints - Wing.
-- Unconditionally use LISP_FLOAT_TYPE code - James.
-- Improve crash message in 'shut_down_emacs' - Turnbull.
-- Update NAS code for NAS 1.6 and later - Toy.
-- Fix "unused variable" warnings in mule-canna.c - Turnbull.
-- Prototype 'enqueue_focus_event' - Turnbull.
-- Use BORDER_FIDDLE_FACTOR instead of 10 in 'layout_layout' - Piper.
-- Add optional 'noerror' arg to 'Frequire' - Wallington.
-- Only resize 'layout_query_geometry' dynamically if static sizes
haven't been set - Piper.
-- Fix infloop upon a gdm logout - Sigelman.
-- Fix scope of 'num_nonshy_regs' - Turnbull.
-- Fix "stale match data" bug - Turnbull.
-- Don't call 'XtDisplay' on a destroyed widget - Golubev.
-- Update specifier code - Sperber.
-- Update process code - Sperber.
-- Move ldap/postgresql code out to DSO's - James.
-- Normalise Ffile_truename and drive spec on cygwing to win32 format
- Piper.
-- Use 'closesocket' instead of 'CloseHandle' in 'winsock_closer' - Alexander.
-- Coding system updates - Ikiuo.
Lisp API
-- Update window-xemacs.el to fix 'goto-line' - Wing.
-- Add garbage collection messages - Wallington.
-- Re-implement window configurations in Emacs Lisp - Sperber.
-- Enhance background-pixmap-file code - Verna.
-- New macro 'save-window-excursion' to eventually replace bytecode
instruction - Sperber.
-- Move window.el et al up the order in dumped-lisp.el - Sperber.
-- Don't use 'save-window-excursion' in
'shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer' - Sperber.
-- Updates to pixel-size code in dialog.el - Sperber.
-- Remove nonworking 'breakpoint-on-error' - Wing.
-- Extract out 'with-displaying-help-buffer' into a more general mechanism
- Wing.
-- Don't catch errors when noninteractive in startup.el - Wing.
-- Fix warnings in code-files.el, loadhist.el, & package-get.el - Wing.
-- Simplify code in '*-reset-device-font-menus' - James.
-- Synch font-menu.el to the 21.4 version - Turnbull.
-- Preserve return value from 'call-process' - Sperber.
-- New functions in replace.el that operate on regions - Evans.
-- Run 'delete-frame-hook' in general dialogs only - Piper.
-- Add a margin parameter in autoload.el for DSO autoloads - James.
-- Conditionalise autoloads for DSO's on the existence of the DSO - James.
-- Always set module directories/paths in dump-paths.el - James.
-- Bring list of package sites up to date - Skyttä.
-- Add "Find Variable" menu entry for 'hyper-apropos-find-variable' -
Wallington
-- Fix 'view-lossage' interactive spec - Wallington.
-- Synch 'with-output-to-string' with GNU/Emacs 21 - Wallington.
-- Bind C-xrd to 'delete-rectangle' - Yamaoka.
-- Move entries in 'auto-mode-alist' out to packages for the modes
that are in packages - Skyttä
-- New compatible alias for 'lookup-syntax-properties'
('parse-sexp-lookup-properties') - Turnbull.
-- Enable C autoloads for DSO's - James.
-- Update revert-buffer code - Piper.
-- Add new coding system 'utf-8-bom' - Ikiuo.
Changes since 21.5.5 are too many to list here. Please consult www.xemacs.org
for details. There have been mainly hundreds of bug fixes and work has been
done on a new garbage collector which isn't enabled yet. Nothing exitingly
new has been added as far as i know. Mainly internal rework.
Remove `-p' from mkdir arguments, it is already part of ${MKDIR}.
While here substitute a couple of ${PREFIX} by `%D' in
`@exec ${MKDIR} ...' lines and add a couple of missing `%D' in such lines too!
This is the *BETA* developement line of XEmacs so handle with care.
This package is based on pkg/14132 contributed by Eric Gillespie Jr.
Most notable change to the release is the possibility to compile
xemacs with gtk+. Set XEMACS_WIDGETS accordingly in your mk.conf
Possible values are:
lucid (default)
gtk
gnome
motif
