as this would break the MS-Windows model. If you want this behaviour
then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t
+** Mail spool locking now works correctly.
+XEmacs has always come with a little auxiliary program, movemail,
+which moves mail out of the system's spool area into user storage. To
+coordinate between XEmacs, the mail delivery agent, and other mail
+user agents, movemail needs to properly lock the spool file before
+moving it. Movemail now correctly respects the --mail-locking option
+to configure. Moreover, movemail's locking behavior can be specified
+at run-time, via a new command-line option -m to movemail, or through
+the environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD.
+
+When installing XEmacs, make sure you configure it according to your
+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.
is now equivalent to
-user-init-file ~<user>/.emacs -user-init-directory ~<user>/.xemacs.
+** New variable `mswindows-meta-activates-menu'.
+If you set this variable to nil then pressing the Alt key under
+MS-Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default is t.
+
** Etags changes.
*** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
initial work by Kyle Jones. Normally, XEmacs C sources link into an
executable called `temacs', which loads the Lisp code and "unexecs"
-into a proper `xemacs' executable. The unexec() process is unreliable
-and makes XEmacs hard to port to new operating systems, or even to new
-releases of old systems.
+into a proper `xemacs' executable. The unexec() process is hard to
+implement correctly and makes XEmacs very hard to port to new
+operating systems, or even to new releases of old systems.
A portable dumper is a different approach to dumping: instead of
dumping full-fledged executable, it only dumps out the initialized
buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, edit fields and progress gauges in a
buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again.
-All of this is still very experimental. This support is currently
-only available under MS-Windows. (#### Is this true?)
+All of this is still very experimental. This feature is currently
+more complete under MS-Windows.
** user-init-directory is now an absolute, unexpanded path.
Previously, `user-init-directory' used to be relative to
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