X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=etc%2FNEWS;h=39d5e6d47d219e906ee2b340de37ee4861915682;hb=a18427281c3f6c1131478a7b1bad03da49e009a0;hp=0f586dd48f841437d1de8350b9150fdf947d0ce8;hpb=f52a96980ed9280f8f906a20d4b899dc0b027644;p=chise%2Fxemacs-chise.git diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 0f586dd..39d5e6d 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -205,23 +205,43 @@ environment's mail spool locking conventions. When you're using a binary kit, set the `mail-lock-method' variable at startup, or the EMACSLOCKMETHOD environment variable. -** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory. -These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally -~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs. +** Init file will move to ~/.xemacs/init.el. -Moreover, -user (which used to only work in unpredictable ways) -is now equivalent to --user-init-file ~/.emacs -user-init-directory ~/.xemacs. +If `~/.xemacs/init.el' exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `~/.emacs' +as an init file. The file may be byte-compiled as +`~/.xemacs/init.elc'. + +Future versions of XEmacs will stop supporting `~/.emacs' as an init +file. XEmacs offers automatic migration upon startup. + +** Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el. + +Whereas customize settings were formerly stored in the regular init +file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file +`~/.xemacs/custom.el', completely under automatic control. This +change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers +automatic migration upon startup. ** Init file may be called .emacs.el. -Like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name the XEmacs init file -`.emacs.el'. Formerly the name had to be `.emacs'. If you use the -name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the file in the usual way. +For the time being, like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name +the XEmacs init file `.emacs.el'. Formerly the name had to be +`.emacs'. If you use the name `.emacs.el', you can byte-compile the +file in the usual way. If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one that is used. +** New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory. +These can be used to specify alternate locations for what is normally +~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs. + +Moreover, -user (which used to only work in unpredictable ways) +is now equivalent to -user-init-file ~/.xemacs/init.el +-user-init-directory ~/.xemacs. or -user-init-file +~/.emacs -user-init-directory ~/.xemacs, whichever init +file comes first. + ** New variable `mswindows-meta-activates-menu'. If you set this variable to nil then pressing and releasing the Alt key under MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default