X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?p=chise%2Fxemacs-chise.git.1;a=blobdiff_plain;f=etc%2FNEWS;fp=etc%2FNEWS;h=32a69bc883cec8a0ad07c970c2b3c5c2beb56786;hp=c6bba49a2bf6196ee442d6eae8263fd961dd9e5b;hb=8ae91923b1c6a495348a86739ef5dafb55993b56;hpb=efdb31fd4c8db81d2414c32d491f1bf994263c74 diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index c6bba49..32a69bc 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ now defaults to t. `delete-key-deletes-forward' takes effect only on the systems that offer both a backspace and a delete key. If set to nil, the key labeled "Delete" will always delete backward. If set to non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward, except on keyboards -where a "Backspace" key is not provided (e.g. old DEC keyboards.) +where a "Backspace" key is not provided (e.g. old DEC keyboards). Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the @@ -58,79 +58,157 @@ 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. -** Shifted motion keys now select text by default. You can turn this -off by setting `shifted-motion-keys-select-region' to nil. +** Shifted motion keys now select text by default. -** There is a new command `kill-entire-line' that always kills the -entire line at point, regardless of whether the point is at the -beginning of line, and regardless of the setting of `kill-whole-line'. +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'. -** The variable `kill-whole-line' now only takes effect when kill-line -is called interactively. Although this is a departure from a previous -behavior in the case of setting this variable kill-whole-line to t, -it is almost certainly what has always been intended, and most likely -the old way of doing things introduced bugs. +** XEmacs support for menu accelerators has been much improved. -** The help buffers created by the plethora of C-h commands now -contain hyperlinks. +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. -** The modeline's text is now scrollable. This is controlled by the -variable `modeline-scrolling-method', which you need to set to a -non-nil value. You can also choose scrolling types; see the docstring -of `modeline-scrolling-method' for more information. +** Default menubar improvements. -** XEmacs menus now have accelerators by default. If a menu item does -not have an accelerator specified, one is created dynamically, using -numbers 1-9 and letters. +*** 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.) -** Interactive searching and matching case improvements. +*** The font-menu is now available under MS Windows. -Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by -the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while -searching). This mechanism has now been slightly improved for -interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains -uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive, -`case-fold-search'. +** Dialog box improvements. -The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive -searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search' -etc. The incremental search facility has always behaved that way. +*** XEmacs now has a proper file dialog box under MS Windows! (and +under GTK as well ...) This will appear whenever you select a menu +item that requires a file as an argument. -** Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches, making -it easier to anticipate where consecutive C-s or C-r will place the -point. If you want to disable the feature, set -`isearch-highlight-all-matches' to nil. +*** The old clunky 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. -** The "coding systems" feature now works even in an XEmacs compiled -without international (Mule) support. This means that for example -XEmacs can recognize newline convention used by the file you are -editing. +*** Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes. + +*** There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find..., but it +is very experimental and needs a lot of work. + +** New buffer tabs. -** You can now use the buffer tabs to switch between buffers. The -tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in a -location called "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can +You can now use the buffer tabs to switch between buffers. + +The tabs are located between the toolbar and the uppermost window, in +a location called "gutter". If you dislike the buffer tabs, you can disable them by customizing `gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p', or by placing this in your .emacs: (set-gutter-element-visible-p default-gutter-visible-p 'buffers-tab nil) You can change the location of the gutter with -`set-default-gutter-position', however currently only MS-Windows +`set-default-gutter-position', however currently only MS Windows supports tab widgets with orientations other than vertical. -** Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard by default under +There are menu items on the Options menu to conveniently change these +settings. + +** 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 MS 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 by default 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. -** When you press RET at a minibuffer prompt that provides a default -value, the value is stored in history instead of an empty line. Also, -you can now edit the default value by pressing the down arrow, -accessing the logical "future" value. Not all minibuffer prompts have -yet been converted to support this feature. +*** MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust. -** International keysyms are now supported under X. This means that +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) in its +behaviour. 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 "coding system" feature now works even in an XEmacs compiled +without international (Mule) support. This means that for example +XEmacs can recognize the newline convention used by the file you are +editing. + +*** 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 @@ -140,6 +218,53 @@ 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. +*** MS Windows 1251 code page is now supported as coding system +`windows-1251'. + +*** Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic support now +available. + +*** The appropriate characters in Latin 3 and Latin 4 character sets +are correctly defined as words. + +** Help buffers contain hyperlinks, and other changes. + +*** The help buffers created by C-h commands now contain hyperlinks to +other commands, functions and variables mentioned in the +documentation. Use button2 to follow a link. Use button3 to bring up +a context menu that lets you follow the link, find the source for the +item, do a tag search, etc. The buffers are also syntax-highlighted. + +*** Help functions (e.g. `C-h f') now know how to print macro argument +lists. If your macro definition included an argument list for the +sake of help output, you no longer need to do that. + +** The modeline's text is now scrollable. This is controlled by the +variable `modeline-scrolling-method', which you need to set to a +non-nil value. You can also choose scrolling types; see the docstring +of `modeline-scrolling-method' for more information. + +** The mouse wheel under MS Windows now functions correctly -- it scrolls +the XEmacs window under the pointer, not the selected window. + +** Interactive searching and matching case improvements. + +*** Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches, making +it easier to anticipate where consecutive C-s or C-r will place the +point. If you want to disable the feature, set +`isearch-highlight-all-matches' to nil. + +*** Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled +by the variable `case-fold-search' (if non-nil, case is ignored while +searching). This mechanism has now been slightly improved for +interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains +uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive, +`case-fold-search'. + +The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive +searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search' +etc. The incremental search facility has always behaved that way. + ** The rectangle functions have been almost completely rewritten in order to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of lines. Two typical examples of the old behavior were @@ -160,14 +285,15 @@ As a side effect, the FORCE argument to `move-to-column' now understands the special value `coerce', which means that the line should not be filled if it is too short to reach the desired column. -** Customize now supports adding comments about your face and variable -settings using a new menu entry. Comments for variables can also be -assigned by calling `customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix -argument. +** There is a new command `kill-entire-line' that always kills the +entire line at point, regardless of whether the point is at the +beginning of line, and regardless of the setting of `kill-whole-line'. -** XEmacs now locates the early package hierarchies at -~/.xemacs/mule-packages/ and ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/. Previously, -the early packages were located in ~/.xemacs/. +** When you press RET at a minibuffer prompt that provides a default +value, the value is stored in history instead of an empty line. Also, +you can now edit the default value by pressing the down arrow, +accessing the logical "future" value. Not all minibuffer prompts have +yet been converted to support this feature. ** You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs. An indirect buffer shares its text with another buffer ("base buffer"), @@ -190,6 +316,17 @@ nil, if given an ordinary (non-indirect) buffer. The function `buffer-indirect-children' returns a list of the indirect children of a base buffer. +** Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented. +By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the +height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to +modify this behavior. + +** Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets. +See `progress-feedback' for details. This support has been switched +on by default for font-lock and some web browsing functions. If you +do not like this behavior, set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area' to +nil. + ** User names following the tilde character can now be completed at file name prompts; e.g. `C-x C-f ~hni' will complete to `~hniksic/'. To make this operation faster, a cache of user names is @@ -201,51 +338,20 @@ The new primitives available for this purpose are functions named ** XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD). It will try NAS first, then ESD, then playing native sound directly. -** X-Face support is now available under MS-Windows. -If an X-Face library built under MS-Windows is available then XEmacs +** X-Face support is now available under MS Windows. +If an X-Face library built under MS Windows is available then XEmacs will use this at build time. -** The font-menu is now available under MS-Windows. - -** 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) in its behaviour. - -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. +** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported. +It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface +to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp. +Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work, +but have not been tested) and 7.0-beta1. ** Indentation no longer indents comments that begin at column zero. This makes it easy to deal with commented out regions of code. -** Init file changes. +** Init file may be placed in alternative locations, and other changes. *** XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file. If it exists, XEmacs will prefer it over `.emacs' and `.emacs.el'. The @@ -254,6 +360,12 @@ file may be byte-compiled as `~/.xemacs/init.elc'. If present, the `~/.xemacs/' directory may contain startup files for XEmacs packages that support it. +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. + *** Init file in your home directory may be called `.emacs.el'. Like in GNU Emacs 20.4 and on, you can now name the XEmacs init file @@ -264,7 +376,23 @@ the file in the usual way. If both `.emacs' and `.emacs.el' exist, the latter file is the one that is used. +*** Much-improved sample init file. + +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->View 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. + *** 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. @@ -282,48 +410,36 @@ file, XEmacs now prefers them to be in a separate file change goes with the migration of the init file, and XEmacs offers automatic migration upon startup. +** Customize now supports adding comments about your face and variable +settings using a new menu entry. Comments for variables can also be +assigned by calling `customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix +argument. + +** XEmacs now locates the early package hierarchies at +~/.xemacs/mule-packages/ and ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/. Previously, +the early packages were located in ~/.xemacs/. + +** The `auto-save' library has been greatly improved. (This lets you +group all your auto-save files into one directory, and is provided +standardly with XEmacs. See `etc/sample.init.el', available on the +Help menu, for more info on how to set it up.) Specifically, it now +works under MS Windows, and it uses a completely reversible encoding +(basically quoted-printable), so that all filenames (as well as +non-filename buffers) are successfully handled regardless of any +special characters in their names. + ** New variable `mswindows-alt-by-itself-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 +key under MS Windows will no longer activate the menubar. The default is t. This is not to be confused with `menu-accelerator-enabled', which enables the use of Alt+ accelerators to invoke the menus. -** Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented. -By default this will attempt to scroll in increments equal to the -height of the default face. Set `window-pixel-scroll-increment' to -modify this behavior. - -** Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets. -See `progress-feedback' for details. This support has been switched -on by default for font-lock and some web browsing functions. If you -do not like this behavior set `progress-feedback-use-echo-area'. - -** The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported. -It is now possible to build XEmacs so that the programming interface -to the PostgreSQL RDBMS (libpq) is available in XEmacs Lisp. -Supported versions of PostgreSQL are 6.5.3 (earlier versions may work, -but have not been tested) and 7.0-beta1. - -** Help functions (e.g. `C-h f') now know how to print macro argument -lists. If your macro definition included an argument list for the -sake of help output, you no longer need to do that. - -** Mule changes. - -*** Windows 1251 code page is now supported as coding system -`windows-1251'. - -*** Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic support now -available. - -*** The appropriate characters in Latin 3 and Latin 4 character sets -are correctly defined as words. - -*** 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. +** The variable `kill-whole-line' now only takes effect when kill-line +is called interactively. Although this is a departure from a previous +behavior in the case of setting this variable kill-whole-line to t, +it is almost certainly what has always been intended, and most likely +the old way of doing things introduced bugs. ** Etags changes. @@ -437,23 +553,13 @@ buffer. As a side effect subwindow support now works once again. All of this is still fairly experimental and there is no documentation. The current APIs might change in a future version of -XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS-Windows. See the +XEmacs. Some widgets are only available under MS Windows. See the file glyphs-test.el in the XEmacs src distribution for examples of usage. The buffers-tab functionality and progress gauge have been implemented using this feature. -** A new 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. - -** Syntax tables may now be specified for a part of a buffer by -attaching the `syntax-table' property to an extent. For compatibility -with GNU Emacs, you may use the text-property interface to achieve the -same result. - ** Case translation now supports international characters. *** Instead of being lists of 256-character strings, case tables are @@ -474,6 +580,11 @@ know. to respect the case table settings. This also applies to regexp search. +** Syntax tables may now be specified for a part of a buffer by +attaching the `syntax-table' property to an extent. For compatibility +with GNU Emacs, you may use the text-property interface to achieve the +same result. + ** Values of variables `user-init-file' and `user-init-directory' are now absolute file/directory names. Previously, both variables used to be relative to `(concat "~" init-file-user)'. This turned out to be