+** Summary of user-visible changes:
+ -- Motif is now deprecated on linux and cygwin.
+ -- On UNIX and linux, '--with-widgets=no' is now the default. If
+ you want buffer tabs or the progress bar, you must run configure
+ with the option '--with-widgets=lucid' or a different toolkit.
+ -- PUI related changes (Package User Interface)
+ - A minor rearrangement of the "Tools -> Packages" menu.
+ - Only a single package download site can be selected.
+ - Managing packages via the `customize' interface is no longer
+ supported.
+ - Non-Mule XEmacsen can not install Mule packages.
+ - The "mule-base" package is not needed to "bootstrap" PUI for
+ Mule enabled XEmacsen.
+ - The default for PGP verifying the package-index file is "off" in
+ 21.4.
+ - The default package-index filename has changed to
+ `package-index.LATEST.gpg'.
+ - The location of the local index file is customisable. See
+ `package-get-package-index-file-location'.
+ - `pui-add-install-directory' has been obsoleted and replaced by
+ `pui-set-local-package-get-directory'.
+ -- 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.
+ -- Fixed ldap libraries configuration.
+ -- Fixed `LDAP_OPT_ON' libraries configuration.