+** Shifted motion keys now select text by default.
+
+You can turn this off by setting `shifted-motion-keys-select-region'
+to nil. This works based off of particular keys, not particular
+commands: Thus, the arrow keys will normally trigger selection when
+the Shift key is held down regardless of their bindings, and non-arrow
+keys with the same bindings (e.g. C-f) will not work this way. You
+can control which keys trigger shifted motion using
+`motion-keys-for-shifted-motion'. See also
+`unshifted-motion-keys-deselect-region'.
+
+** You can now build XEmacs with support for GTK+ widget set.
+
+XEmacs built that way uses GTK+ to draw menubars, scrollbars, and
+other GUI components, as well GDK for drawing text, choosing fonts,
+allocating colors, etc. Additionally, GTK-XEmacs supports Lisp
+functions for writing your own GTK programs in Emacs Lisp!
+
+To use this, build XEmacs with the `--with-gtk' configure flag. (Of
+course, you'll need to have the GTK+ libraries and header files on the
+system.) Gnome widgets and functionality are supported where
+available, and can be turned off.
+
+** ~/.xemacs/init.el is now the preferred location for the init file.
+
+*** XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file.
+If it exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `.emacs' and `.emacs.el'.
+The file may be byte-compiled as `~/.xemacs/init.elc'.
+
+If present, the `~/.xemacs/' directory may contain startup files for
+XEmacs packages that support it.
+
+The first time you start up XEmacs, it will ask you if you would like
+to migrate your `.emacs' to the new location. (Your custom settings
+will also be moved, to `~/.xemacs/custom.el' -- see below.) If so, you
+will also be asked whether you would like to create a compatibility
+`.emacs' for backward compatibility with previous versions of XEmacs
+and with GNU Emacs. (This compatibility `.emacs' simply loads the new
+init and custom files.) Doing this is generally a good idea -- new
+versions of XEmacs will prefer `~/.xemacs/init.el' over `~/.emacs' in
+any case.
+
+You can manually migrate at any time with `migrate-user-init-file',
+and undo any migration with `unmigrate-user-init-file'. The function
+`create-compatibility-dot-emacs' also lets you manually create a
+compatibility `.emacs'.
+
+NOTE: Under MS Windows, your home directory (i.e. the directory named
+`~') is specified by the HOME environment variable, and defaults to
+C:\. To set this variable, modify AUTOEXEC.BAT under Windows 95/98,
+or select Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables...
+under Windows NT/2000.
+
+*** 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.
+
+** Much-improved sample init.el, showing how to use many useful features.
+
+The sample init file, located in the `etc/' directory of the XEmacs
+installation, has been renamed from `sample.emacs' to `sample.init.el',
+and pretty much rewritten from scratch. (You can view it by selecting
+the menu item Help->Samples->Sample init.el.) Many of the most-useful
+optional features in XEmacs have been enabled, and other features that
+are useful but may be annoying to some are present but commented out.
+There is also extensive documentation on how to add your own
+improvements to the init file and where to find more documentation
+elsewhere in XEmacs. The file has been specifically designed so that
+most people can simply make it their own init file by copying it to
+~/.xemacs/init.el, and they will be satisfied with the results.
+
+** XEmacs support for menu accelerators has been much improved.
+
+It now works properly under MS Windows, for example. To enable
+accelerators, set `menu-accelerator-enabled' to `menu-force'. Menus
+now have accelerators by default, currently on the first letter of the
+menu item unless another letter was indicated as the accelerator using
+%_ in the menu string. These %_ specifications are automatically
+removed when displaying the menu item, and are handled correctly in
+functions such as `normalize-menu-item-name'. Some auto-generated
+menus will have accelerators added dynamically, using numbers 1-9 and
+letters; to add this feature yourself, use the Lisp command
+`submenu-generate-accelerator-spec' in a menu filter. The feature
+`menu-accelerator-support' has been added so that packages can check
+whether this support exists.
+
+** Default menubar improvements.
+
+*** Default menubar has many new commands and better organization.
+
+The default menubar has been extensively reorganized. Many more
+commands are available, and they are more logically organized. The
+Options menu, in particular, has been significantly expanded, and almost
+everything on the new Cmds menu is new. (Much of the useful
+functionality from the `big-menubar' package has been imported.)
+
+*** 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)!
+This will appear whenever you select a menu item that requires a file
+as an argument.
+
+*** The old clunky file dialog box is improved.
+The in-buffer file dialog box (visible on non-MS-Windows, non-GTK
+systems) is still clunky but has had many improvements to make it work
+significantly better.
+
+*** Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes.
+
+*** There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find...
+However, it's very experimental and needs a lot of work.
+
+** New buffer tabs.
+
+You can now use buffer tabs to switch between buffers.
+
+The tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in
+a location called the "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can
+disable them using the menu item `Options->Display->Buffers Tab Visible'
+by customizing `gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p', or by placing this in
+your .xemacs/init.el:
+
+ (custom-set-variables '(gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p nil))
+
+You can change the location of the gutter using the menu item
+`Options->Display->Default Gutter Location' or with (e.g.)
+
+ (custom-set-variables '(default-gutter-position 'left))
+
+However, currently only MS Windows supports tab widgets with
+orientations other than vertical, and it doesn't currently support
+gutters on the bottom of the frame.
+
+** There is a new MS Windows installer, netinstall, ported from Cygwin.
+
+Nearly complete automation of the XEmacs install process from
+ftp.xemacs.org. Includes selection of Lisp packages to install, etc.
+
+** The subprocess quote-handling mechanism under Windows is much improved.
+
+Specifically, the quote-handling mechanism has been completely rewritten,
+and you should now be able to use single or double quotes to quote arguments
+just like under Unix, and expect to get correct results regardless of the
+shell you are using (e.g. CMD.EXE, bash from Cygwin, etc.). For example,
+the following command:
+
+M-x grep '<<<<<<<' *.c
+
+should work as intended.
+
+** Printing support now available under MS Windows.
+
+The File->Print... menu item pretty-prints using the standard MS
+Windows printing facilities. Unfortunately it's still rather
+experimental. There is a separate `msprinter' device tag for MS
+Windows printers, and so you can control the way that faces appear on
+the printer by using this tag to specify device-specific face
+settings.
+
+** Selection improvements.
+
+*** Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard under Windows.
+
+This was done by changing the default value of `interprogram-cut-function'
+and `interprogram-paste-function'. You can get the old behavior by
+setting these to nil, and there is an option on the options menu to do
+this.
+
+*** MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
+
+Generally selection should now do what you would expect under
+MS Windows: the middle mouse button will paste your current selection
+or the clipboard; conversions from different types of selection to the
+clipboard can be made; the kill-ring and friends will be updated as
+per X.
+
+The only thing selection doesn't do is set the clipboard automatically
+as this would break the MS Windows model. If you want this behavior
+then set `selection-sets-clipboard' to t.
+
+*** Motif selection support is now more correct (but slower).
+
+Changes have been made to allow correct operation of cut/copy/paste
+operations between native widgets and XEmacs buffers. However, this
+can lead to a lot of X traffic which slows down the performance of
+`C-k'. If you want the old behaviour then set
+`x-selection-strict-motif-ownership' to nil.
+
+** 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.
+
+** International support changes.
+
+*** The default coding-priority-list is now safer.
+
+This means that if you have no language environment set, Mule no
+longer automatically recognizes ISO 2022 escapes in your files. This
+makes editing binary files safe.
+
+*** International keysyms are now supported under X.
+
+This means that XEmacs running under Mule will automatically recognize
+the keysym `scaron' to be the lower-case `s' with caron in the Latin 2
+character set. (Specifically, it will bind the keysym to
+`self-insert' and augment its `ascii-character' property.) This is
+very useful with XFree under European locales as shipped by recent
+Linux distributions. If XEmacs is compiled without Mule support, the
+feature still works, but it is unaware of different character sets --
+it unconditionally sets the `ascii-character' property to values in
+the [160, 256) range.
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