XEmacs 21.2.6
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+1998-12-16  Andy Piper  <andy@xemacs.org>
+
+       * XEmacs 21.2.6 is released
+
+1998-11-30  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * cus-dep.el (Custom-make-dependencies): Be smarter about trapping 
+       errors.
+
+1998-12-04  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * wid-edit.el (widget-echo-this-extent): Set
+       help-echo-owns-message to t.
+
+1998-11-30  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-download-menu): use toggles for
+         each site in the download site menu.
+
+1998-12-01  Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get): If we cannot find a package
+         because package-get-remote is not set, give a more helpful
+         error message.
+
+1998-11-30  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-remote-filename): use an EFS path
+       with user anonymous if no user is specified.
+
+1998-12-10  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * faces.el (face-spec-set): Re-init fallfacks for default after
+       calling reset-face on the default face.
+
+1998-12-10  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * package-admin.el (package-admin-default-install-function):
+       Behave as advertised.  Make sure the pkg-dir is proper for
+       default-directory.
+       (package-admin-add-binary-package): Make sure the pkg-dir is
+       proper for default-directory.
+       (package-admin-install-function-mswindows): Make sure the pkg-dir
+       is proper for default-directory.
+
+1998-12-05  XEmacs Build Bot <builds@cvs.xemacs.org>
+
+       * XEmacs 21.2.5 is released
+
+1998-12-05  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * files.el (binary-file-regexps): regexp-opt is not available at
+       bytecompile time.
+
+1998-11-30  Martin Buchholz  <martin@xemacs.org>
+       
+       * x-win-xfree86.el:
+       * x-win-sun.el (x-win-init-sun):
+       * x-win-sun.el:
+       * x-mouse.el (mouse-track-and-copy-to-cutbuffer):
+       * x-iso8859-1.el:
+       * x-init.el (init-post-x-win):
+       * x-init.el (init-pre-x-win):
+       * x-init.el (x-initialize-compose):
+       * x-init.el:
+       * x-compose.el:
+       * winnt.el:
+       * widget.el:
+       * wid-edit.el (widget-glyph-click):
+       * wid-edit.el (widget-glyph-find):
+       * wid-edit.el (widget-type):
+       * view-less.el (view-buffer-other-window):
+       * very-early-lisp.el:
+       * version.el:
+       * toolbar.el:
+       * toolbar-items.el:
+       * term/sun.el (suntool-map):
+       * term/sun-mouse.el:
+       * term/internal.el:
+       * syntax.el (modify-syntax-entry):
+       * symbol-syntax.el:
+       * subr.el:
+       * startup.el (lock-directory):
+       * simple.el (set-comment-column):
+       * simple.el (backward-delete-char-untabify):
+       * shadow.el (find-emacs-lisp-shadows):
+       * shadow.el:
+       * setup-paths.el (paths-construct-info-path):
+       * select.el (cut-copy-clear-internal):
+       * process.el (call-process-region):
+       * process.el (start-process-shell-command):
+       * process.el:
+       * paths.el (rmail-spool-directory):
+       * paragraphs.el (use-hard-newlines):
+       * package-get.el (package-get-dependencies):
+       * package-admin.el (package-admin-delete-binary-package):
+       * obsolete.el (truncate-string):
+       * obsolete.el (store-substring):
+       * mouse.el (default-mouse-track-maybe-own-selection):
+       * mouse.el (mouse-yank-at-point):
+       * modeline.el:
+       * modeline.el (mouse-drag-modeline):
+       * minibuf.el (read-directory-name-internal):
+       * minibuf.el (read-file-name-internal):
+       * minibuf.el (read-file-name-internal-1):
+       * minibuf.el (read-file-name-2):
+       * minibuf.el (exact-minibuffer-completion-p):
+       * minibuf.el (read-from-minibuffer):
+       * minibuf.el:
+       * menubar.el (check-menu-syntax):
+       * map-ynp.el (map-y-or-n-p):
+       * make-docfile.el (docfile-out-of-date):
+       * loadup.el ((member "run-temacs" command-line-args)):
+       * loadup.el ((member "no-site-file" command-line-args)):
+       * loadup.el (really-early-error-handler):
+       * loadup.el:
+       * loadhist.el:
+       * loaddefs.el:
+       * lisp-mnt.el (lm-verify):
+       * lib-complete.el (lib-complete:cache-completions):
+       * lib-complete.el (library-all-completions):
+       * itimer.el (itimer-run-expired-timers):
+       * info.el (Info-mode):
+       * info.el (Info-insert-file-contents):
+       * info.el (Info-rebuild-dir):
+       * info.el (Info-build-dir-anew):
+       * info.el (Info-parse-dir-entries):
+       * info.el (Info-dir-outdated-p):
+       * info.el (Info-insert-dir):
+       * info.el (info-xref):
+       * info.el:
+       * hyper-apropos.el (hyper-apropos-get-doc):
+       * hyper-apropos.el (hyper-describe-face):
+       * hyper-apropos.el (hyper-apropos-mode):
+       * hyper-apropos.el:
+       * help.el (list-processes):
+       * help.el:
+       * gnuserv.el:
+       * font.el (mswindows-font-create-name):
+       * font.el (font-default-font-for-device):
+       * font.el (x-font-create-object):
+       * font.el (font-registry):
+       * font.el:
+       * font-lock.el (font-lock-keywords):
+       * font-lock.el:
+       * finder.el (finder-compile-keywords):
+       * find-paths.el (paths-find-recursive-path):
+       * fill.el (set-justification-center):
+       * fill.el (fill-region-as-paragraph):
+       * files.el (insert-directory):
+       * files.el (wildcard-to-regexp):
+       * files.el (recover-file):
+       * files.el (basic-save-buffer):
+       * files.el (delete-auto-save-file-if-necessary):
+       * files.el (file-relative-name):
+       * files.el (backup-extract-version):
+       * files.el (backup-buffer):
+       * files.el (set-visited-file-name):
+       * files.el (set-auto-mode):
+       * files.el (interpreter-mode-alist):
+       * files.el:
+       * files.el (find-file-noselect):
+       * files.el (abbreviate-file-name):
+       * files.el (parse-colon-path):
+       * files.el (directory-abbrev-alist):
+       * etags.el (visit-tags-table-buffer):
+       * easymenu.el (easy-menu-define):
+       * dragdrop.el (experimental-dragdrop-drag):
+       * dragdrop.el (dragdrop-drop-do-functions):
+       * dragdrop.el (dragdrop-drop-at-point):
+       * disass.el (disassemble-1):
+       * disass.el (disassemble-internal):
+       * disass.el (disassemble):
+       * disass.el:
+       * derived.el (derived-mode-init-mode-variables):
+       * derived.el (define-derived-mode):
+       * custom.el (defgroup):
+       * cus-edit.el (custom-quote):
+       * config.el:
+       * code-process.el (open-network-stream):
+       * code-process.el (start-process):
+       * code-process.el (call-process-region):
+       * code-process.el (call-process):
+       * code-process.el:
+       * code-files.el (insert-file-contents):
+       * code-files.el:
+       * code-files.el (buffer-file-coding-system-for-read):
+       * cmdloop.el (yes-or-no-p-minibuf):
+       * cl.el:
+       * cl-macs.el:
+       * cl-extra.el:
+       * callers-of-rpt.el (make-caller-report):
+       * callers-of-rpt.el:
+       * bytecomp.el (batch-byte-recompile-directory):
+       * bytecomp.el (batch-byte-compile-1):
+       * bytecomp.el (batch-byte-compile):
+       * bytecomp.el (display-call-tree):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-insert):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-two-args-19->20):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-variable-ref):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-form):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-top-level-body):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-out-toplevel):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-byte-code-maker):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-file-form-defmumble):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-file-form):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-keep-pending):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-insert-header):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-from-buffer):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-file):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-recompile-file):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-close-variables):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-warn-about-unused-variables):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compiler-legal-options):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-lapcode):
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-optimize-log):
+       * bytecomp.el ((fboundp 'defsubst)):
+       * bytecomp.el:
+       * bytecomp-runtime.el:
+       * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-apply):
+       * byte-optimize.el (car):
+       * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-form):
+       * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-form-code-walker):
+       * byte-optimize.el:
+       * build-report.el (build-report-insert-installation-file):
+       * build-report.el (build-report):
+       * auto-show.el:
+       * apropos.el (apropos-documentation):
+       - mega patch
+       - clean up byte-compile warnings
+       - remove unused variables
+       - Use common lisp style hashtable functions
+       - byte compiler cleanup
+       - use #'(lambda ...) instead of '(lambda ...) or (function (lambda ...))
+       - remove old backquote syntax usage
+       - move some cl functionality into C for speed.
+       - remove last remaining VMS support
+       - spelling fixes
+       - implement last, butlast, nbutlast, copy-list in C.
+       - new macro ignore-file-errors, similar to ignore-errors
+         (ignore-file-errors (delete-file "foo"))
+       - get frequent garbage collection during loadup.el by tweaking
+         gc-cons-threshold, rather than explicitly calling garbage-collect
+       - default delete-key-deletes-forward to `t'.
+
+1998-11-28  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * XEmacs 21.2-beta4 is released.
+
+1998-11-27  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * easymenu.el (easy-menu-add-item): Wraper around add-menu-btton.
+       (easy-menu-item-present-p): Wrapper around find-menu-item.
+       (easy-menu-remove-item): Wrapper around delete-menu-item.
+
+       * menubar.el (delete-menu-item): Add 'from-menu' argument.
+       (add-menu-button): Add 'in-menu' argument.
+       (add-menu-item-1): Add in-menu support to helper function.
+
+1998-11-27  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-mode): Fix keymap lossage.
+
+1998-11-26  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * faces.el (get-custom-frame-properties): Revert Hrvoje Niksic change 
+       of Dec 4, 1997.
+
+1998-11-25  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * process.el (shell-command-on-region): Report if the command
+       succeeded or failed.
+
+1998-11-24  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * subr.el (buffer-substring-no-properties): Comment out.
+
+1998-11-07  Adrian Aichner  <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
+
+       * msw-faces.el (mswindows-find-smaller-font): Turning font names
+         into font instances first, like `x-frob-font-size' does.
+         (mswindows-find-larger-font): ditto
+
+1998-11-04  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui-install-selected-packages): fix args in call
+       to `package-get'.
+
+1998-10-29  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * package-get.el (host-name): New widget type.
+       (package-get-remote): Better customization using new type.
+       (package-get-download-sites): idem dito.
+
+       (package-get-custom): Do not use package-get-all untill we have
+       runtime dependencies.
+
+       (package-get-remove-copy): Default to 't' we no longer need this
+       kludge as we do not currently use depenencies.
+       
+       (package-get-was-current): New variable.
+       (package-get-require-base): New 'force-current' argument.
+       (package-get-update-base): idem
+       (package-get-package-provider):  idem
+       (package-get-locate-index-file): New 'no-remote' argument.
+       (package-get-locate-file): idem.
+       
+       (package-get-maybe-save-index): New function.
+       (package-get-update-base): Use it.
+
+1998-10-28 Greg Klanderman <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-remote): default to nil; by default, 
+       don't go out to the net via EFS.  They must select a download site.
+       (package-get-download-sites): new variable.
+       (package-get-download-menu): new function.
+       (package-get-locate-index-file): new function.
+       (package-get-update-base): use it.
+
+       * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): add "Update Package Index"
+       and "Add Download Site" menus under Options | Manage Packages.
+
+1998-10-19  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get): bugfix code checking installed version
+       for case where package is not currently installed.
+       (package-get-require-signed-base-updates): new variable.
+       (package-get-update-base-from-buffer): remove REMOTE-SOURCE arg, it was 
+       deemed not a goot thing.  Use the variable
+       package-get-allow-unsigned-base-updates instead.
+
+1998-10-16 Greg Klanderman <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get): Don't install an older version than 
+       we already have unless explicitly told to.  Issue a warning.
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui-add-required-packages): when adding
+       dependencies, don't add packages that are up to date.
+       (pui-package-symbol-char):  Don't consider a package out of date 
+       if you have a newer version installed than the latest version in
+       package-get-base.
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-base-filename): document that it may 
+       be a path relative to package-get-remote;  new default value.
+       (package-get-locate-file): new function.
+       (package-get-update-base): use it to expand package-get-base-filename.
+       (package-get-save-base): new function to save the package-get database
+       to file.
+       (package-get-update-base-from-buffer): add REMOTE-SOURCE argument.
+       (package-get-update-base): pass the REMOTE-SOURCE arg.
+       (package-get-update-base-entry): call package-get-custom-add-entry.
+       (package-get-file-installed-p): removed; no longer needed.
+       (package-get-create-custom): ditto.
+       (toplevel): remove code to build and load package-get-custom.el
+       (package-get-custom-add-entry): new function.
+
+1998-10-12  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * wid-edit.el (widget-button-click): Don't switch window.
+
+1998-10-22  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * cus-face.el (custom-set-face-update-spec): Add autoload cookie
+
+1998-10-20  Malcolm Box  <malcolm@brownale.demon.co.uk>
+        
+       * etags.el (find-tag-default): Run find-tag-hook using
+       run-hooks rather than funcall
+
+1998-10-19  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-mode): Set the current minor mode maps
+       and the current local map as the parents to isearch-mode-map.
+
+1998-10-15  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * XEmacs 21.2-beta3 is released.
+
+1998-10-15  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-update-base): use
+       insert-file-contents-internal, not insert-file-contents-literally.
+
+1998-10-14  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * auto-save.el: expand-file 'auto-save-*-dir' at runtime not at
+       dump time. 
+
+1998-10-15  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-update-base-entry): new function.
+       (package-get-update-base): renamed; was `package-get-load-base'.
+       cleanup, and use package-get-update-base-from-buffer.
+       (package-get-update-base-from-buffer): new function.
+       (package-get-update-base-entries): new; helper for above.
+       Do not eval lisp grabbed over ftp; parse it from new format.
+
+1998-10-15  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * files.el (set-auto-mode): Don't play games loading package-get
+       database; package-get-package-provider will handle it all.
+
+1998-10-14  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-base-filename): new variable.
+       (package-get-require-base): new function.
+       (package-get-pgp-signed-begin-line): new variable.
+       (package-get-pgp-signature-begin-line): ditto.
+       (package-get-pgp-signature-end-line):  ditto.
+       (package-get-load-base): new function.
+       (package-get-interactive-package-query):
+       (package-get-update-all):
+       (package-get-dependencies):
+       (package-get-package-provider):
+       (package-get-custom): use package-get-require-base.
+       [package-get-custom loading]: disable for now.
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui-list-packages): use (package-get-require-base)
+
+1998-10-14  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * package-ui.el: Correct obvious thinko in choosing extent face.
+
+1998-10-12  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): pui-list-package has nothing 
+       to with Customize. Move all the package stuff to a new Item in Options.
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui-menu): Add menu and Popup menu.
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get): Use new
+       package-admin-get-install-dir.
+
+       * package-admin.el (package-admin-get-install-dir): New syntax.
+       Conserve package location and put mule packages where mule-base is.
+
+       * package-get.el : Customized
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui): Customized
+       (pui-package-install-dest-dir): New variable.
+       (pui-install-selected-packages): Use it
+
+1998-10-12  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-interactive-package-query): Move
+       dependency on package-get-base to run-time.
+       (package-get-update-all): Ditto.
+       (package-get-dependencies): Ditto.
+       (package-get-package-provider): Ditto.
+       (package-get-custom): Ditto.
+
+1998-10-11  Glynn Clements  <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
+
+       * events.el: Remove 'ascii-character property from 'backspace
+       and 'delete symbols
+
+1998-10-11  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * package-get-base.el: removed.
+
+1998-09-23  Didier Verna  <verna@inf.enst.fr>
+
+       * simple.el (search-caps-disable-folding): moved from isearch-mode.el
+       (no-upper-case-p): new function.
+       (with-search-caps-disable-folding): new macro.
+       (with-interactive-search-caps-disable-folding): new macro.
+       (zap-to-char): In interactive mode, do a case-sensitive search if
+       the character is uppercase.
+       (zap-up-to-char): ditto.
+
+       * replace.el (perform-replace): use the function no-upper-case-p.
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-fix-case): ditto.
+       make obsolete `with-caps-disable-folding' and
+       `isearch-no-upper-case-p'.
+
+       * etags.el (find-tag-internal): use `with-search-caps-disable-folding'.
+       (tags-search): ditto.
+       (tags-query-replace): ditto.
+
+       * info.el (Info-search): ditto.
+
+1998-10-07  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * x-font-menu.el (font-menu-set-font): Respect font-menu-frame-local
+
+1998-10-07  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-admin.el (package-admin-rmtree): rewritten.  need to
+       check for "." and ".." before symlink check.  expand files and
+       directories with respect to DIRECTORY, not default-directory.
+
+1998-10-04  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-all): add INSTALL-DIR argument.
+
+1998-10-06  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-ui.el (pui-add-required-packages): new function, select
+       dependent packages.
+       (pui-display-keymap): bind it.
+       (pui-help-string): document it.
+       (pui-install-selected-packages): package-get-all -> package-get.
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-dependencies): new function.
+
+1998-10-04  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-done): Use regexp-search-ring-max for
+       regexps.
+
+1998-10-05  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * mouse.el (default-mouse-track-point-at-opening-quote-p): New
+       function.
+       (default-mouse-track-normalize-point): Use it.
+
+1998-09-30  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * package-admin.el (package-admin-delete-binary-package):
+               General cleanup. Remove unnessary use of progn and
+       save-excursion. 
+       (package-admin-delete-binary-package): Do NOT mess with file
+       modes. That is evil. 
+       (package-admin-delete-binary-package): Wrap all deleting in
+       condition-case. The data in MANIFEST is untrustworthy.
+       (package-admin-delete-binary-package): Let the OS worry about non
+       empty directories.
+
+1998-10-09  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * lisp-mnt.el (lm-commentary): Fix InfoDock-style comment
+       processing.
+       (lm-report-bug): Fix mail address to send bug reports to.
+
+1998-09-29  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * XEmacs 21.2-beta2 is released.
+
+1998-08-14  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * files.el (auto-mode-alist): Enhanced regexp for perl-mode
+
+1998-09-22  Karl M. Hegbloom  <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com>
+
+       * info.el (Info-mode): Document page turning by double clicks in
+       docstring so `M-x describe-mode' will display it.
+
+1998-09-20  Karl M. Hegbloom  <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com>
+
+       * info.el (Info-mouse-track-double-click-hook): Use character
+       widths to calculate a border region where double clicking does
+       page turning, and return `nil' by default so other hooks, such as
+       region highlighting, will be run.
+
+1998-09-29  Colin Rafferty   <colin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * sound.el (default-sound-directory-list): Initialize with all the 
+       "sounds" directories in `data-directory-list'.  It used to just be 
+       the first one.
+
+       * packages.el (locate-data-directory-list): Created.  This gives
+       the list of matching directories, unlike `locate-data-directory',
+       which just gives the first one.
+
+1998-09-26  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * minibuf.el (read-from-minibuffer): No longer bind help-form but
+       make a binding in the local keymap until help-char handling is
+       improved. 
+
+       * help.el (help-keymap-with-help-key): Provide keymap with help
+       binding.
+       (help-print-help-form): New helper function.
+
+1998-09-23  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-highlight): set-extent-endpoints can
+       move extent to another buffer; no need to create a new extent.
+       (isearch-fix-case): New function.
+       (isearch-search-and-update): Use it.
+
+1998-09-22  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * isearch-mode.el (isearch-mode): Use overriding-local-map to set
+       the keymap, not minor-mode-map-alist.
+       (isearch-done): Restore overriding-local-map.
+
+1998-09-21  Martin Buchholz  <martin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-buffer-substring): 
+       Fix for: (byte-compile (defun f () (buffer-substring)))
+       ==>   ** buffer-substring called with 3 args, but requires 0-3
+       - new code not only works, but is more readable, too.
+
+1998-09-20  Jonathan Harris  <jhar@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
+
+       * msw-faces.el (mswindows-init-device-faces): Don't try to
+         specify a default font at this late stage. Do try to force
+         creation of the default face font so that if it fails we get
+         an error now instead of a crash at frame creation.
+
+         mswindows-font-canonicalize-name, mswindows-make-font-unbold,
+         mswindows-make-font-unitalic: Canonical default weight
+         changed from "Normal" to "Regular".
+
+         mswindows-make-font-bold / -bold-italic: Supplied device was
+         not being passed into call to mswindows-find-smaller-font.
+
+1998-09-10  Bjrn Torkelsson  <torkel@hpc2n.umu.se>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get-remote): Fix the path where to find
+         the packages on xemacs.org.
+
+1998-09-08  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * about.el (about-maintainer-info): Update Ben's entry.
+
+1998-09-24  Martin Buchholz  <martin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * lisp/shadow.el (find-emacs-lisp-shadows):
+       - `member' was being called on lists of length 2000!
+       - Replace with hashtables.
+       - Replace hand-coded loops with (dolist)
+       - Fix comment typo
+
+1998-09-20  Darryl Okahata  <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
+
+       * packages.el: Added new function, `package-delete-name', to
+         delete existing packages from the installed package database
+         (`packages-package-list').  Also added the "pkginfo" directory
+         to `packages-special-base-regexp', so that the pkginfo directory
+         would not get added to `late-packages'.
+
+       * package-admin.el: Added ability to delete an installed package
+         (added low-level function, `package-admin-delete-package').
+         Understands how to use the pkginfo/MANIFEST.<package> file to
+         delete the package.  When installing a package, will also
+         create a MANIFEST.* file if one is not provided by the
+         package.  If the MANIFEST.* doesn't exist when deleting a
+         package, the functions will fall back to attempting to delete
+         any package-specific lisp directory.
+
+       * package-get.el: Moved some functions to package-admin.el.
+         Added interactive function `package-get-delete-package', for
+         use by users for deleting a package.
+
+         Also modified to not require the prescence of efs.
+
+1998-09-22  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * files.el (find-file-noselect): Handle all signals, kill the
+       buffer and resignal.
+
+1998-09-23  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * cl-macs.el (glyph-image): Add setf method.
+
+1998-09-06  Darryl Okahata  <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
+
+       * package-get.el: Fixed broken EFS downloading.  Also, look for
+         .tar.gz files first, in preference over .tgz files.
+
+       * package-ui.el: Fix display of package version numbers.
+
+1998-08-27  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * x-font-menu.el (font-menu-set-font):  Add "pt" units to size
+       argument.       
+
+1998-09-03  Darryl Okahata  <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
+
+       * list-mode.el: `display-completion-list': added new/optional
+         keyword `:completion-string', which allows the programmer to
+         change the "Possible completions are:" prompt.
+
+       * menubar-items.el: Added new pulldown menu-pick to start up the 
+         visual package browser/installer:
+
+               Options->Customize->List Packages
+
+       * package-admin.el: Added hooks for installing under both Unix
+         and MS Windows.  Does additional error checking.  No longer
+         calls "add-big-package.sh" to install packages under Unix; now 
+         calls gunzip & tar directly.
+
+       * package-get.el: Added ability to install packages from files
+         on a local disk/CDROM.  Now deletes any existing package lisp
+         directory.  Does completion on available packages when
+         querying for package names.  Will also search for .tgz files
+         in addition for .tar.gz files.  Tries to reload
+         auto-autoloads, as a convenience when loading new packages,
+         and also tries to add any new package paths to `load-path'.
+         Changed all occurences of `concat' to use `expand-file-name'.
+
+       * package-ui.el: New file which implements the main visual
+         package browser/installer, which is started via a menu pick or 
+         M-x pui-list packages.
+
+1998-09-03  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * startup.el (load-init-file): spelling fix.
+
+1998-09-02  Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]  <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
+
+       * startup.el (normal-top-level): Load auto-autoload files
+       covariantly with their precedence.
+
+1998-08-26  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): Remove "Font Weight"
+       option, there is currently no custom equivalent.. Customize-faces
+       is "Edit faces".
+
+       * x-font-menu.el (font-menu-set-font): Use customize to set
+       default face.
+
+       * faces.el (face-spec-update-all-matching): New function.
+
+       * cus-face.el (custom-set-face-update-spec): New function.
+       Interface to customize faces from elisp.
+
+       (custom-face-value-create): Show the customized settings if set
+       but not saved.
+
+1998-08-26  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       (custom-face-value-create): Show the customized settings if set
+       but not saved.
+
+1998-08-31  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr>
+
+       * keydefs.el (global-map): Add FSF 20.3 binding of
+       query-replace-regexp.
+
+1998-08-21  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * minibuf.el (read-file-name-internal-1): use
+       user-name-completion-1 instead of user-name-completion.
+
+1998-08-19  Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]  <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
+
+       * loadup.el: 
+       * make-docfile.el: 
+       * update-elc.el: Don't set `source-directory' (now defunct as a
+       global variable) no more.
+
+       * packages.el (packages-list-autoloads): Made `source-directory'
+       (now defunct as a global variable) a parameter.
+
+1998-08-13  Carsten Leonhardt  <leo@arioch.oche.de>
+
+       * about.el (about-hackers): new email
+
+1998-08-16  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * lisp-mode.el (with-string-as-buffer-contents): Set indentation.
+
+1998-07-17  Didier Verna  <verna@inf.enst.fr>
+
+       * faces.el (set-face-property):
+       (set-face-dim-p):
+       (face-dim-p): updated the doc strings now that the dim property isn't
+       tty-specific. 
+       (face-equal): the dim property is now a common one.
+
+       * cus-face.el (custom-face-attributes): New face attribute: `dim'
+       Renamed the `stipple' attribute to `background-pixmap'.
+       (custom-face-background-pixmap): make custom-face-stipple an
+       obsolete alias for this.
+
+1998-08-11  Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]  <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
+
+       * find-paths.el (paths-file-readable-directory-p): Created and
+       used.
+
+       * loadup.el: Don't set inhibit-... flags from run-temacs.
+
+1998-08-06  Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]  <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
+
+       * packages.el (packages-data-path-depth): Added and used.
+
+1998-08-05  Charles G. Waldman <cgw@pgt.com>
+
+       * about.el:
+       - Change .xpm to .png, delete "zcat" section.
+       - cosmetic fix in the 'marcpa' entry.
+
+       * etc/photos
+       - convert all .xpm.Z to .png
+       - rename mrb to martin
+       - rename mcook-m to mcookm
+
+1998-07-31  Martin Buchholz  <martin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * x-init.el (x-initialize-compose): Add support for
+       dead-circumflex as YET ANOTHER NAME for that dead key.
+
+1998-08-05  Colin Rafferty <colin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * setup-paths.el (paths-construct-exec-path): Made the
+       last-packages really be last.
+       (paths-construct-data-directory-list): Ditto.
+
+1998-08-01  Kai Haberzettl  <khaberz@synnet.de>
+
+       * startup.el(startup-splash-frame-body): 
+       Update Copyright notice in splash screen 
+
+1998-07-20  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * minibuf.el (read-file-name-internal-1): do ~user completion.
+
+1998-07-22  Jan Vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
+
+       * font-lock.el (font-lock-fontify-glumped-region): Add guard
+       aginst destroyed extents
+
+1998-07-24  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * package-get.el (package-get): add `install-dir' argument.
+
+1998-07-20  John Jones  <jj@asu.edu>
+
+       * package-get.el: calls to package-get-update-all will only
+         update packages which are already installed.
+
+1998-07-23  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * autoload.el (update-file-autoloads): Ensure autoloads buffer is
+       writable.
+
+1998-07-20  Colin Rafferty   <colin@xemacs.org>
+
+       * about.el (about-hackers): Correct my email.
+
+1998-07-20  Kai Haberzettl  <khaberz@synnet.de>
+
+       * about.el (about-hackers): new email-address.
+
+1998-07-25  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
+
+       * minibuf.el (read-number): Don't let `input-error' condition
+       escape.
+
+1998-07-20  Greg Klanderman  <greg@alphatech.com>
+
+       * about.el (about-hackers): use my `email-for-life' address.
+
 1998-07-19  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
 
        * XEmacs 21.2-beta1 is released.