* 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
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** 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.
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