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-*- mode:outline; minor-mode:outl-mouse -*-
C-c TAB This shows subheadings (if any) of current heading.
C-c C-s Show _all_ the text and headings under current heading
* Introduction
==============
This file presents some general information about XEmacs. It is primarily
about the evolution of XEmacs and its release history.
There are five sections.
Introduction................(this section) provides an introduction
Using Outline Mode..........briefly explains how to use outline mode
XEmacs Release Notes........detailed changes to this release
Future Plans for XEmacs.....what's next
The History of XEmacs.......some historical notes
A Long List of Packages.....all the stuff in XEmacs
What Changed................between versions and also FSF GNU Emacs
New users should look at the next section on "Using Outline Mode".
You will be more efficient when you can navigate quickly through this
file. Users who want to know which capabilities have been introduced
in this release should look at the "XEmacs Release Notes." Users
interested in some of the details of how XEmacs differs from GNU Emacs
should read the section "What Changed?".
N.B. The term "FSF GNU Emacs" refers to any release of Emacs
Version 19 from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. (We do
not say just "GNU Emacs" because Richard M. Stallman ["RMS"]
thinks that this term is too generic; although we sometimes say
e.g. "GNU Emacs 19.30" to refer to a specific version of FSF GNU
Emacs. The term "XEmacs" refers to this program or to its
predecessors "Era", "Epoch", and "Lucid Emacs". The predecessor
of all these program is called "Emacs 18". When no particular
version is implied, "Emacs" will be used.
* Using Outline Mode
====================
This file is in outline mode, a major mode for viewing (or editing)
outlines. It allows you to make parts of the text temporarily invisible so
that you can see just the overall structure of the outline.
There are two ways of using outline mode: with keys or with menus. Using
outline mode with menus is the simplest and is just as effective as using
keystrokes. There are menus for outline mode on the menubar as well as in
popup menus activated by pressing mouse button 3.
Try the following to help you read this file.
C-c C-q This hides everything but the very top level headings
You can then move to an interesting section
C-c TAB This shows subheadings (if any) of current heading.
C-c C-s Show _all_ the text and headings under current heading
C-c C-d Hide _all_ the text and headings under current heading
It's then easy to navigate through the file alternating between
showing, C-C C-s, and hiding, C-c C-d, the text. Also, use the "Show"
and "Hide" menus displayed to get access to the same commands.
You may at any time press `C-h m' to get a listing of the outline mode key
bindings.
* XEmacs Release Notes
======================
** Major Differences Between 19.15 and 19.16
============================================
Many bugs have been fixed. XEmacs 19.16 is a bug-fix release only. No
new features have been added.
-- shell-command did not respect its output-buffer argument.
-- When using CVS in conjunction with frame-icon, an error
would occur when a frame was iconified.
-- dired did not properly protect its data structures during
garbage collection.
-- y-or-n-p-minibuf could crash XEmacs 19.15.
-- overlay-lists did not always return a pair of lists.
-- Starting with the -nw option did not prevent XEmacs 19.15 from
attempting to connect to a tooltalk server.
-- XEmacs 19.15 could not be built on a DUNIX4.0 system.
-- appt.el did not respect the user's hooks.
-- outline-mode did not work in a tty-only XEmacs 19.15.
-- MD5 checksum generation did not work on a 64-bit machine.
-- XEmacs 19.15 ignored the user's mail path.
-- The rcompile package checked for ange-ftp instead of efs.
-- vc-directory did not work.
-- Sometimes clicking on a modeline did not advance to the
next or previous buffer as it should have.
-- The variable enable-local-variables was sometimes ignored.
-- pending-del did not respect the user's hooks.
-- CRiSP mode was synchronized with FSF emacs.
-- The performance of font-lock was improved.
-- There were numerous holes in the garbage collection.
-- There were 2 minor bugs with using XEmacs 19.15 on a tty.
-- XEmacs 19.15 ignored certain dead_key events.
-- XEmacs 19.15 had minor fontification problems with java.
-- mark-pop did not always restore the mark properly.
-- smtpmail.el had a couple of minor bugs.
-- telnet-mode did not always respond to the telnet prompt.
-- gomoku was broken in XEmacs 19.15.
-- recover-all files did not work in XEmacs 19.15.
-- transient-mark-mode and skeleton.el did not work together.
-- Footnotes were not properly formatted in info.
-- Configuration of XEmacs 19.15 did not work on Sequent
computers, because they do not have a working version of alloca.
-- In XEmacs 19.15 it was impossible to compile with Lucid
scrollbars without Motif.
-- XEmacs 19.15 would erroneously report an internal error on
certain types of minibuffer input.
-- When using virtual screens with your X server, sometimes
iconify-frame would cause XEmacs 19.15 to lose one of the frames.
-- server-kill-buffer always returned nil.
-- The :filter keyword on a menubar could crash XEmacs 19.15.
-- psgml-mode did not respect the user's hooks.
-- Many bugs in efs mode were fixed.
-- sh-script.el could hang XEmacs.
-- Options could not be saved after fonts were changed in
XEmacs 19.15.
-- read-from-string could not read "1.".
-- dired was confused about where chown lives on Linux.
-- Edebug did not work on floating point numbers.
-- first-change-hook saved the wrong buffer, so unwinding the
stack could result in the wrong buffer's being restored.
-- pcl-cvs was incompatible with live-icon.
-- save-buffer deactivated the zmacs region.
-- When running a sub-process, if the standard error could
not be opened, the error was reported incorectly.
-- shell-command-on-region had a bogus test for the active
region.
-- get-frame-for-buffer ignored relevant properties.
-- make-database did not correctly expand its filename
argument.
-- A few minor improvements were made to the optimizer in the
byte-compiler.
-- kill-region could get confused when the beginning of the
region was after the end of the region.
-- movemail was upgraded to the same version which shipped
with XEmacs 20.2; this version understands Linux file locking.
-- The regexp cache size was too small.
-- The "save as" dialog was buggy.
-- Minor bugs in sendmail mode.
-- tm did not understand the png image format.
-- set-text-properties only removed the first text property.
-- add-log.el has been upgraded to the version supported by
FSF emacs 20.1.
-- When tags-loop-continue was called inappropriately, the
wrong error message resulted.
-- Frame creation was buggy, and could crash XEmacs.
-- PNG support did not work on Linux.
-- Asynchronous process output did not always work.
-- x-compose.el did not support the degree sign or the
grave keysym.
-- mh-invisible-headers did not work.
-- Creating a tty frame could crash XEmacs 19.15.
-- detach-extent could crash XEmacs.
-- The minibuffer could get the read-only attribute.
-- When the mouse was in the right side of the frame, its
position could be reported incorrectly.
-- lib-complete didn't work with compressed files.
-- getloadavg.c was brought into sync with the XEmacs 20.2
version.
** Major Differences Between 19.14 and 19.15
============================================
Many bugs have been fixed. An effort has been made to eradicate all
XEmacs crashes, although we are not quite done yet. The overall
quality of XEmacs should be higher than any previous release. XEmacs
now compiles with nary a warning with some compilers.
User visible changes:
-- EFS replaces ange-ftp for remote file manipulation capability.
-- TM (Tools for Mime) now comes with XEmacs. This provides MIME
(Multi-purpose Internet Multi-media Extensions?) support for Mail
and News. The primary author is Morioka Tomohiko.
-- There is a new way to customize faces and (some) variables.
Try it with `M-x customize RET', or from the Options->Customize menu.
Documented in <URL:info:custom>.
-- The AUC TeX environment for editing and running TeX is now bundled.
(Per Abrahamsen.)
Enable with (require 'tex-site) in your .emacs file.
Documented in <URL:info:auctex>.
-- New user option `init-face-from-resources'.
If you don't set faces with X resources, you can speed up the
initialization of new faces by setting this to nil.
-- `column.el' removed, use `column-number-mode' instead.
-- Command line processing should work much better now - no more order
dependencies.
-- html mode now defaults to using HTML-3.2
-- VM now has a native MIME mode
-- The traditional time.el package now has optional modeline graphics
-- The XEmacs Logo has been changed courtesy of Jens Lautenbacher
-- Default background changed to gray80
-- The XEmacs build procedure has been changed to make it easier than
ever to include new packages to be dumped with the binary
-- cc-mode is no longer auto-loaded. (require 'cc-mode) is now needed
before you customize cc-mode in your .emacs.
-- blink-cursor-mode is somewhat more useable now that the cursor
stops blinking during keyboard activity.
-- Dired is now part of efs and went from version 6.X to 7.9.
Keybindings have been synced with FSF Emacs, there are more menus and
items in menus are sometimes grouped differently. Any personnal
customization to dired will probably have to be checked.
If you are a 19.14 user and use its dired a lot, expect to get mad at
'c', 'r' and '^' keybindings."
** New Packages
------------
Noteworthy new packages:
redo
igrep
uniquify
auctex
-- Many new packages have been added:
*** auctex (Per Abrahamsen)
*** customize (Per Abrahamsen))
*** m4-mode 1.8 (Andrew Csillag)
*** crisp.el - crisp/brief emulation (Gary D. Foster)
Minor mode emulation for Borland's Brief/Crisp editor
*** Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el has been ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva
*** psgml-1.01 (Lennart Staflin, James Clark)
*** python-mode.el 2.90 (Barry Warsaw)
*** vrml-mode.el (Ben Wing)
*** enriched.el, face-menu.el (Boris Goldowsky, Michael Sperber)
*** sh-script.el (Daniel Pfeiffer)
*** decipher.el (Christopher J. Madsen)
*** mic-paren.el (Mikael Sjödin)
*** xrdb-mode.el 1.21 (Barry Warsaw)
*** redo.el 1.01 (Kyle Jones)
*** edmacro.el (ported by Hrvoje Niksic)
*** verilog-mode.el (Michael McNamara)
*** webjump.el-1.4 (Neil W. Van Dyke)
*** overlay.el (Joseph Nuspl support for Emacs overlay API)
*** browse-cltl2.el 1.1 (Holger Schauer)
*** mine.el 1.17 (Jacques Duthen)
*** igrep.el 2.56 (Kevin Rodgers)
*** speedbar.el (Eric Ludlam)
*** frame-icon.el (Michael Lamoureux)
*** winmgr-mode.el (David Konerding, Stefan Strobel & Barry Warsaw)
*** whitespace-mode.el (Heiko Muenkel)
*** detached-minibuf.el (Alvin Shelton)
** Updated Packages
------------
Most packages have been updated to the latest available versions.
(thanks go to countless maintainers):
*** ediff 2.64 (Michael Kifer)
*** Gnus Gnus 5.4.36 (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
**** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
**** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
Gnus.
**** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
`and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
**** Article washing status can be displayed in the
article mode line.
**** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
**** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
(setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
**** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
`gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
**** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
**** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
**** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
**** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
used to pick articles.
**** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
another have been added.
`M-x gnus-change-server'
**** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
generating lines in buffers.
**** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
`M-C-_'.
**** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
**** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
**** Scores can be decayed.
(setq gnus-decay-scores t)
**** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
**** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
the native server.
`M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
**** A new command for reading collections of documents
(nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
**** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
**** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
**** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
(DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
a group.
**** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
See the commands under the `T S' submap.
**** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
See the commands under the `G P' submap.
**** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
Use the `Y c' command.
**** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
**** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
`M-x nnmail-split-history'
**** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
from incoming mail before saving the mail.
See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
**** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
*** w3 3.0.71 (Bill Perry)
- Major upgrade to Emacs/W3, including
- Much fuller stylesheet support
- Tables support
- Frames support
- better asynchronous downloads
- now uses the widget library for consistent look of form elements
- Much much much faster
*** ilisp 5.8 (Chris McConnell, Ivan Vasquez, Marco Antoniotti, Rick
Campbell)
*** VM 6.22 (Kyle Jones)
*** etags 11.78 (Francesco Potorti`)
*** ksh-mode.el 2.9
*** vhdl-mode.el 2.73 (Rod Whitby)
*** id-select.el 1.4.5 (Bob Weiner)
*** EDT/TPU emulation modes should work now for the first time.
*** viper 2.93 (Michael Kifer) is now the `official' vi emulator for XEmacs.
*** big-menubar should work much better now.
*** mode-motion+.el 3.16
*** backup-dir 2.0 (Greg Klanderman)
*** ps-print.el-3.05 (Jacques Duthen Prestataire)
*** lazy-lock-1.16 (Simon Marshall)
*** fast-lock.el 3.10.2 (Simon Marshall)
*** reporter 3.3 (Barry Warsaw)
*** hm--html-menus 5.4 (Heiko Muenkel)
*** cc-mode 4.387 (Barry Warsaw)
*** elp 2.37 (Barry Warsaw)
*** itimer.el-1.05 (Kyle Jones)
*** floating-toolbar.el-1.02 (Kyle Jones)
*** balloon-help.el-1.05 (Kyle Jones)
*** hyperbole-4.023 (Bob Weiner)
*** cperl-mode-1.31+
*** OO-Browser 2.10 (Bob Weiner)
** Changes at Lisp level
------------
-- New `widget' library for inserting UI components in buffers.
Documented in <URL:info:widget>.
-- New `custom' library for declaring user options and faces.
Documented in <URL:info:custom>.
-- New function `make-empty-face'.
Like `make-face', but doesn't query the resource database.
-- New function x-keysym-on-keyboard-p helps determine keyboard
characteristics for key rebinding:
x-keysym-on-keyboard-p: (KEYSYM &optional DEVICE)
-- a built-in function.
Return true if KEYSYM names a key on the keyboard of DEVICE.
More precisely, return true if pressing a physical key
on the keyboard of DEVICE without any modifier keys generates KEYSYM.
Valid keysyms are listed in the files /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h and in
/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or whatever the equivalents are on your system.
-- Usage of keysyms of the form kp_0 is deprecated and one should use
the Emacs compatible kp-0 instead.
-- preceding-char and following-char have been obsoleted. Use the
much safer and correct functions char-after and char-before instead.
-- Many symbols present for compatibility with GNU Emacs no longer
generate bytecompiler warning messages
-- Installed info files are now compressed (support courtesy of Joseph J Nuspl)
-- (load-average) works on Solaris, even if you're not root. Thanks to
Hrvoje Niksic.
-- OffiX drag-and-drop support added
-- lots of syncing with 19.34 elisp files, most by Steven Baur
-- M-: (eval-expression) is now enabled by default since it is much
more difficult to type.
-- new variables:
signal-error-on-buffer-boundary
* Future Plans for XEmacs
==========================
This is the end of the line for XEmacs v19. No new development is planned
on this source tree. XEmacs 20.1 will contain the functionality in 19.15,
and development will continue with XEmacs 20.2. The major new `feature'
planned in 20.2 will be the introduction of separable packages and the
capability to download and use an XEmacs lite distribution.
* The History of XEmacs
=======================
This product is an extension of GNU Emacs, previously known to some as
"Lucid Emacs" or "ERA". It was initially based on an early version of Emacs
Version 19 from the Free Software Foundation and has since been kept
up-to-date with recent versions of that product. It stems from a
collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with SunSoft DevPro (a division of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.; formerly called SunPro) and the University of Illinois.
NOTE: Lucid, Inc. is currently out of business but development on XEmacs
continues strong. Recently, Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering have
both contributed significantly to the development of XEmacs.
* A Long List of Packages
=======================
This section gives a detailed list of packages included with XEmacs.
It's long! Of particular interest are: games, gnus, modes, packages,
and utils.
** auctex - Super TeX
*** auctex/auc-old.el
This file contains an alternative keymapping, compatible with
older versions of AUC TeX. You are strongly suggested to try the
new keyboard layout, as we would like this file to go away
eventually.
*** auctex/bib-cite.el
Commentary:
This package is used in various TeX modes to display or edit references
associated with \cite commands, or matching \ref and \label commands.
*** auctex/font-latex.el
Commentary:
*** auctex/style/german.el
Commentary:
`german.sty' use `"' to give next character an umlaut.
*** auctex/style/harvard.el
Commentary:
Harvard citation style is from Peter Williams available on the CTAN
servers
*** auctex/style/plfonts.el
Commentary:
`plfonts.sty' use `"' to make next character Polish.
`plfonts.sty' <C> L. Holenderski, IIUW, lhol@mimuw.edu.pl
*** auctex/style/plhb.el
Commentary:
`plhb.sty' use `"' to make next character Polish.
`plhb.sty' <C> J. S. Bie\'n, IIUW, jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl
** bytecomp - Byte compile Emacs Lisp files
*** bytecomp/byte-optimize.el
Commentary:
========================================================================
"No matter how hard you try, you can't make a racehorse out of a pig.
You can, however, make a faster pig."
Or, to put it another way, the emacs byte compiler is a VW Bug. This code
makes it be a VW Bug with fuel injection and a turbocharger... You're
still not going to make it go faster than 70 mph, but it might be easier
to get it there.
*** bytecomp/bytecomp-runtime.el
Commentary:
interface to selectively inlining functions.
This only happens when source-code optimization is turned on.
*** bytecomp/bytecomp.el
Commentary:
The Emacs Lisp byte compiler. This crunches lisp source into a sort
of p-code which takes up less space and can be interpreted faster.
The user entry points are byte-compile-file and byte-recompile-directory.
*** bytecomp/disass.el
Commentary:
The single entry point, `disassemble', disassembles a code object generated
by the Emacs Lisp byte-compiler. This doesn't invert the compilation
operation, not by a long shot, but it's useful for debugging.
** calendar - Calendars, diaries and appointments
*** calendar/calendar.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements a calendar window. It
generates a calendar for the current month, together with the previous
and coming months, or for any other three-month period. The calendar
can be scrolled forward and backward in the window to show months in
the past or future; the cursor can move forward and backward by days,
weeks, or months, making it possible, for instance, to jump to the
date a specified number of days, weeks, or months from the date under
the cursor. The user can display a list of holidays and other notable
days for the period shown; the notable days can be marked on the
calendar, if desired. The user can also specify that dates having
corresponding diary entries (in a file that the user specifies) be
marked; the diary entries for any date can be viewed in a separate
window. The diary and the notable days can be viewed independently of
the calendar. Dates can be translated from the (usual) Gregorian
calendar to the day of the year/days remaining in year, to the ISO
commercial calendar, to the Julian (old style) calendar, to the Hebrew
calendar, to the Islamic calendar, to the French Revolutionary calendar,
to the Mayan calendar, and to the astronomical (Julian) day number.
When floating point is available, times of sunrise/sunset can be displayed,
as can the phases of the moon. Appointment notification for diary entries
is available.
*** calendar/cal-dst.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
holiday.el that deal with daylight savings time.
*** calendar/cal-french.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
diary.el that deal with the French Revolutionary calendar.
*** calendar/cal-mayan.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
diary.el that deal with the Mayan calendar. It was written jointly by
*** calendar/cal-x.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements dedicated frames in x-windows for
calendar.el.
*** calendar/cal-xemacs.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements menu bar and popup menu support for
calendar.el.
*** calendar/diary-ins.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements the diary insertion features as
described in calendar.el.
*** calendar/solar.el
Commentary:
This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el,
diary.el, and holiday.el that deal with times of day, sunrise/sunset, and
eqinoxes/solstices.
** cl - Common Lisp compatibility with Emacs Lisp
*** cl/cl-compat.el
Commentary:
These are extensions to Emacs Lisp that provide a degree of
Common Lisp compatibility, beyond what is already built-in
in Emacs Lisp.
** comint - For running shells, telnet, rsh, gdb, dbx under Emacs
*** comint/comint-xemacs.el
Commentary:
Declare customizable faces for comint outside the main code so it can
be dumped with XEmacs.
*** comint/comint.el
Commentary:
This file defines a general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package
(comint mode). The idea is that you can build specific process-in-a-buffer
modes on top of comint mode -- e.g., lisp, shell, scheme, T, soar, ....
This way, all these specific packages share a common base functionality,
and a common set of bindings, which makes them easier to use (and
saves code, implementation time, etc., etc.).
Several packages are already defined using comint mode:
- shell.el defines a shell-in-a-buffer mode.
- cmulisp.el defines a simple lisp-in-a-buffer mode.
- The file cmuscheme.el defines a scheme-in-a-buffer mode.
- The file tea.el tunes scheme and inferior-scheme modes for T.
- The file soar.el tunes lisp and inferior-lisp modes for Soar.
- cmutex.el defines tex and latex modes that invoke tex, latex, bibtex,
previewers, and printers from within emacs.
- background.el allows csh-like job control inside emacs.
*** comint/gdb.el
Commentary:
A facility is provided for the simultaneous display of the source code
in one window, while using gdb to step through a function in the
other. A small arrow in the source window, indicates the current
line.
*** comint/gud.el
Commentary:
*** comint/history.el
Commentary:
suggested generic history stuff -- tale
This is intended to provided easy access to a list of elements
being kept as a history ring.
*** comint/inf-lisp.el
Commentary:
This file defines a a lisp-in-a-buffer package (inferior-lisp
mode) built on top of comint mode. This version is more
featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version. The
key bindings are also more compatible with the bindings of Hemlock
and Zwei (the Lisp Machine emacs).
*** comint/kermit.el
Commentary:
I'm not sure, but I think somebody asked about running kermit under shell
mode a while ago. Anyway, here is some code that I find useful. The result
is that I can log onto machines with primitive operating systems (VMS and
ATT system V :-), and still have the features of shell-mode available for
command history, etc. It's also handy to be able to run a file transfer in
an emacs window. The transfer is in the "background", but you can also
monitor or stop it easily.
*** comint/rlogin.el
Commentary:
Support for remote logins using `rlogin'.
This program is layered on top of shell.el; the code here only accounts
for the variations needed to handle a remote process, e.g. directory
tracking and the sending of some special characters.
*** comint/shell.el
Commentary:
This file defines a a shell-in-a-buffer package (shell mode) built
on top of comint mode. This is actually cmushell with things
renamed to replace its counterpart in Emacs 18. cmushell is more
featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version.
*** comint/telnet.el
Commentary:
This mode is intended to be used for telnet or rsh to a remode host;
`telnet' and `rsh' are the two entry points. Multiple telnet or rsh
sessions are supported.
** custom - Allow's user to customize Emacs
*** custom/custom.el
Commentary:
This file only contain the code needed to declare and initialize
user options. The code to customize options is autoloaded from
`cus-edit.el'.
The code implementing face declarations is in `cus-face.el'
** edebug - Emacs Lisp debugger
*** edebug/cl-read.el
Commentary:
Please send bugs and comments to the author.
This package replaces the standard Emacs Lisp reader (implemented
as a set of built-in Lisp function in C) by a flexible and
customizable Common Lisp like one (implemented entirely in Emacs
Lisp). During reading of Emacs Lisp source files, it is about 40%
slower than the built-in reader, but there is no difference in
loading byte compiled files - they don't contain any syntactic sugar
and are loaded with the built in subroutine `load'.
** ediff - Compare and merge files with graphical difference display
*** ediff/ediff.el
Commentary:
Never read that diff output again!
Apply patch interactively!
Merge with ease!
This package provides a convenient way of simultaneous browsing through
the differences between a pair (or a triple) of files or buffers. The
files being compared, file-A, file-B, and file-C (if applicable) are
shown in separate windows (side by side, one above the another, or in
separate frames), and the differences are highlighted as you step
through them. You can also copy difference regions from one buffer to
another (and recover old differences if you change your mind).
Ediff also supports merging operations on files and buffers, including
merging using ancestor versions. Both comparison and merging operations can
be performed on directories, i.e., by pairwise comparison of files in those
directories.
** efs - Remote file access (replaces ange-ftp)
See online manual.
** electric - The "electric" commands; these implement temporary
windows for help, list-buffers, etc.
*** electric/ehelp.el
Commentary:
This package provides a pre-packaged `Electric Help Mode' for
browsing on-line help screens. There is one entry point,
`with-electric-help'; all you have to give it is a no-argument
function that generates the actual text of the help into the current
buffer.
** emulators - Various emulations: mocklisp, teco, TPU/EDT, WordStar
*** emulators/mlconvert.el
Commentary:
This package converts Mocklisp code written under a Gosling or UniPress
Emacs for use with GNU Emacs. The translated code will require runtime
support from the mlsupport.el equivalent.
*** emulators/mlsupport.el
Commentary:
This package provides equivalents of certain primitives from Gosling
Emacs (including the commercial UniPress versions). These have an
ml- prefix to distinguish them from native GNU Emacs functions with
similar names. The package mlconvert.el translates Mocklisp code
to use these names.
*** emulators/teco.el
Commentary:
This code has been tested some, but no doubt contains a zillion bugs.
You have been warned.
Written by Dale R. Worley based on a C implementation by Matt Fichtenbaum.
Please send comments, bug fixes, enhancements, etc. to drw@math.mit.edu.
*** emulators/tpu-edt.el
Commentary:
%% TPU-edt -- Emacs emulating TPU emulating EDT
%% Introduction
TPU-edt emulates the popular DEC VMS editor EDT (actually, it emulates
DEC TPU's EDT emulation, hence the name TPU-edt).
*** emulators/tpu-extras.el
Commentary:
Use the functions defined here to customize TPU-edt to your tastes by
setting scroll margins and/or turning on free cursor mode. Here's an
example for your .emacs file.
*** emulators/ws-mode.el
Commentary:
This emulates WordStar, with a major mode.
** energize - Interface to now-defunct Lucid's C/C++ integrated
environment XEmacs (nee Lucid Emacs) saw birth explicitly to serve
Energize.
** eos - SPARCworks
** eterm - Full terminal emulation under Emacs
*** eterm/term.el
Commentary:
This file defines a general command-interpreter-in-a-buffer package
(term mode). The idea is that you can build specific process-in-a-buffer
modes on top of term mode -- e.g., lisp, shell, scheme, T, soar, ....
This way, all these specific packages share a common base functionality,
and a common set of bindings, which makes them easier to use (and
saves code, implementation time, etc., etc.).
*** eterm/tgud.el
Commentary:
The ancestral gdb.el was by W. Schelter <wfs@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
It was later rewritten by rms. Some ideas were due to Masanobu.
Grand Unification (sdb/dbx support) by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
The overloading code was then rewritten by Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@cen.com>,
who also hacked the mode to use comint.el. Shane Hartman <shane@spr.com>
added support for xdb (HPUX debugger). Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
wrote the GDB command completion code. Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
added the IRIX kluge and re-implemented the Mips-ish variant.
Then hacked by Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> to use term.el.
*** eterm/tshell.el
Commentary:
This file defines a a shell-in-a-buffer package (shell mode) built
on top of term mode. This is actually cmushell with things
renamed to replace its counterpart in Emacs 18. cmushell is more
featureful, robust, and uniform than the Emacs 18 version.
** games - blackbox, mines, decipher, doctor, ...
*** games/blackbox.el
Commentary:
The object of the game is to find four hidden balls by shooting rays
into the black box. There are four possibilities: 1) the ray will
pass thru the box undisturbed, 2) it will hit a ball and be absorbed,
3) it will be deflected and exit the box, or 4) be deflected immediately,
not even being allowed entry into the box.
*** games/conx.el
Commentary:
conx.el: Yet Another Dissociator.
Select a buffer with a lot of text in it. Say M-x conx-buffer
or M-x conx-region. Repeat on as many other bodies of text as
you like.
M-x conx will use the word-frequency tree the above generated
to produce random sentences in a popped-up buffer. It will pause
at the end of each paragraph for two seconds; type ^G to stop it.
*** games/cookie1.el
Commentary:
Support for random cookie fetches from phrase files, used for such
critical applications as emulating Zippy the Pinhead and confounding
the NSA Trunk Trawler.
*** games/decipher.el
Commentary:
This package is designed to help you crack simple substitution
ciphers where one letter stands for another. It works for ciphers
with or without word divisions. (You must set the variable
decipher-ignore-spaces for ciphers without word divisions.)
*** games/dissociate.el
Commentary:
The single entry point, `dissociated-press', applies a travesty
generator to the current buffer. The results can be quite amusing.
*** games/doctor.el
Commentary:
The single entry point `doctor', simulates a Rogerian analyst using
phrase-production techniques similar to the classic ELIZA demonstration
of pseudo-AI.
*** games/flame.el
Commentary:
"Flame" program. This has a chequered past.
*** games/gomoku.el
Gomoku is a game played between two players on a rectangular board. Each
player, in turn, marks a free square of its choice. The winner is the first
one to mark five contiguous squares in any direction (horizontally,
vertically or diagonally).
*** games/hanoi.el
Commentary:
Solves the Towers of Hanoi puzzle while-U-wait.
The puzzle: Start with N rings, decreasing in sizes from bottom to
top, stacked around a post. There are two other posts. Your mission,
should you choose to accept it, is to shift the pile, stacked in its
original order, to another post.
*** games/life.el
Commentary:
A demonstrator for John Horton Conway's "Life" cellular automaton
in Emacs Lisp. Picks a random one of a set of interesting Life
patterns and evolves it according to the familiar rules.
*** games/mine.el
Commentary:
The object of this classical game is to locate the hidden mines.
To do this, you hit the squares on the game board that do not
contain mines, and you mark the squares that do contain mines.
*** games/mpuz.el
Commentary:
When this package is loaded, `M-x mpuz' generates a random multiplication
puzzle. This is a multiplication example in which each digit has been
consistently replaced with some letter. Your job is to reconstruct
the original digits. Type `?' while the mode is active for detailed help.
*** games/spook.el
Commentary:
Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.
A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help
give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated
keyword scanners.
*** games/studly.el
Commentary:
Functions to studlycapsify a region, word, or buffer. Possibly the
esoteric significance of studlycapsification escapes you; that is,
you suffer from autostudlycapsifibogotification. Too bad.
*** games/yow.el
Commentary:
Important pinheadery for GNU Emacs.
See cookie1.el for implementation. Note --- the `n' argument of yow
from the 18.xx implementation is no longer; we only support *random*
random access now.
** gnus - The ultimate News and Mail reader
See online manual
*** gnus/gnus-audio.el
Commentary:
This file provides access to sound effects in Gnus.
Prerelease: This file is partially stripped to support earcons.el
You can safely ignore most of it until Red Gnus. **Evil Laugh**
*** gnus/gnus-gl.el
Commentary:
*** gnus/gnus-undo.el
Commentary:
This package allows arbitrary undoing in Gnus buffers. As all the
Gnus buffers aren't very text-oriented (what is in the buffers is
just some random representation of the actual data), normal Emacs
undoing doesn't work at all for Gnus.
*** gnus/mailheader.el
Commentary:
This package provides an abstraction to RFC822-style messages, used in
mail news, and some other systems. The simple syntactic rules for such
headers, such as quoting and line folding, are routinely reimplemented
in many individual packages. This package removes the need for this
redundancy by representing message headers as association lists,
offering functions to extract the set of headers from a message, to
parse individual headers, to merge sets of headers, and to format a set
of headers.
*** gnus/message.el
Commentary:
This mode provides mail-sending facilities from within Emacs. It
consists mainly of large chunks of code from the sendmail.el,
gnus-msg.el and rnewspost.el files.
*** gnus/nnheader.el
Commentary:
These macros may look very much like the ones in GNUS 4.1. They
are, in a way, but you should note that the indices they use have
been changed from the internal GNUS format to the NOV format. The
makes it possible to read headers from XOVER much faster.
** hm--html-menus - Menus and popups for writing/viewing html documents
** hyperbole - Personal database
** ilisp - A comint-based package for interacting with inferior
lisp processes.
** iso - Implement various ISO character standards
*** iso/iso-acc.el
Commentary:
Function `iso-accents-mode' activates a minor mode in which
typewriter "dead keys" are emulated. The purpose of this emulation
is to provide a simple means for inserting accented characters
according to the ISO-8859-1 character set.
*** iso/iso-ascii.el
Commentary:
This code sets up to display ISO 8859/1 characters on plain
ASCII terminals. The display strings for the characters are
more-or-less based on TeX.
*** iso/iso-cvt.el
Commentary:
This lisp code serves two purposes, both of which involve
the translation of various conventions for representing European
character sets to ISO 8859-1.
** mailcrypt - Encrypting/decrypting of mail messages
** mel - MIME encoding library (see also TM)
** mh-e - Emacs interface to MH mail reader
*** mh-e/mh-e.el
Commentary:
mh-e is an Emacs interface to the MH mail system.
** modes - How to edit files: Ada, asm, awk, bib, cperl, eiffel, ...
*** modes/arc-mode.el
Commentary:
NAMING: "arc" is short for "archive" and does not refer specifically
to files whose name end in ".arc"
ARCHIVE TYPES: Currently only the archives below are handled, but the
structure for handling just about anything is in place.
Arc Lzh Zip Zoo
--------------------------------
View listing Intern Intern Intern Intern
Extract member Y Y Y Y
Save changed member Y Y Y Y
Add new member N N N N
Delete member Y Y Y Y
Rename member Y Y N N
Chmod - Y Y -
Chown - Y - -
Chgrp - Y - -
*** modes/asm-mode.el
Commentary:
This minor mode is based on text mode. It defines a private abbrev table
that can be used to save abbrevs for assembler mnemonics.
*** modes/auto-show.el
Commentary:
This file provides functions that
automatically scroll the window horizontally when the point moves
off the left or right side of the window.
*** modes/awk-mode.el
Commentary:
Sets up C-mode with support for awk-style #-comments and a lightly
hacked syntax table.
*** modes/bib-mode.el
Commentary:
GNU Emacs code to help maintain databases compatible with (troff)
refer and lookbib. The file bib-file should be set to your
bibliography file. Keys are automagically inserted as you type,
and appropriate keys are presented for various kinds of entries.
*** modes/bibtex.el
*** modes/cc-compat.el
Commentary:
Boring old c-mode.el (BOCM) is confusion and brain melt. cc-mode.el
is clarity of thought and purity of chi. If you are still unwilling
to accept enlightenment, this might help, or it may prolong your
agony.
*** modes/cc-guess.el
Commentary:
This file contains routines that help guess the cc-mode style in a
particular region of C, C++, or Objective-C code. It is provided
for example and experimentation only. It is not supported in
anyway. Some folks have asked for a style guesser and the best way
to show my thoughts on the subject is with this sample code. Feel
free to improve upon it in anyway you'd like. Please send me the
results. Note that style guessing is lossy!
*** modes/cc-lobotomy.el
Commentary:
Every effort has been made to improve the performance of
cc-mode. However, due to the nature of the C, C++, and Objective-C
language definitions, a trade-off is often required between
accuracy of construct recognition and speed. I believe it is always
best to be correct, and that the mode is currently fast enough for
most normal usage. Others disagree. I have no intention of
including these hacks in the main distribution. When cc-mode
version 5 comes out, it will include a rewritten indentation engine
so that performance will be greatly improved automatically. This
was not included in this release of version 4 so that Emacs 18
could still be supported. Note that this implies that cc-mode
version 5 will *not* work on Emacs 18!
*** modes/cc-mode.el
Commentary:
This package provides modes in GNU Emacs for editing C, C++,
Objective-C, and Java code. It is intended to be a replacement for
c-mode.el (a.k.a. BOCM -- Boring Old C-Mode), c++-mode.el,
cplus-md.el, and cplus-md1.el, all of which are in some way
ancestors of this file. A number of important improvements have
been made, briefly: complete K&R C, ANSI C, `ARM' C++, Objective-C,
and Java support with consistent indentation across all modes, more
intuitive indentation controlling variables, compatibility across
all known Emacsen, nice new features, and tons of bug fixes. This
package is called "CC Mode" to distinguish it from its ancestors,
but there is no cc-mode command. Usage and programming details are
contained in an accompanying texinfo manual.
*** modes/cl-indent.el
Commentary:
This package supplies a single entry point, common-lisp-indent-function,
which performs indentation in the preferred style for Common Lisp code.
*** modes/cperl-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/eiffel3.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/enriched.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/executable.el
Commentary:
executable.el is used by certain major modes to insert a suitable
#! line at the beginning of the file, if the file does not already
have one.
*** modes/f90.el
Commentary:
Smart mode for editing F90 programs in FREE FORMAT.
Knows about continuation lines, named structured statements, and other
new features in F90 including HPF (High Performance Fortran) structures.
The basic feature is to provide an accurate indentation of F90 programs.
In addition, there are many more features like automatic matching of all
end statements, an auto-fill function to break long lines, a join-lines
function which joins continued lines etc etc.
To facilitate typing, a fairly complete list of abbreviations is provided.
For example, `i is short-hand for integer (if abbrev-mode is on).
*** modes/follow.el
Commentary:
`Follow mode' is a minor mode for Emacs 19 and XEmacs which
combines windows into one tall virtual window.
The feeling of a "virtual window" has been accomplished by the use
of two major techniques:
* The windows always displays adjacent sections of the buffer.
This means that whenever one window is moved, all the
others will follow. (Hence the name Follow Mode.)
* Should the point (cursor) end up outside a window, another
window displaying that point is selected, if possible. This
makes it possible to walk between windows using normal cursor
movement commands.
*** modes/fortran.el
Commentary:
Fortran mode has been upgraded and is now maintained by Stephen A. Wood
(saw@cebaf.gov). It now will use either fixed format continuation line
markers (character in 6th column), or tab format continuation line style
(digit after a TAB character.) A auto-fill mode has been added to
automatically wrap fortran lines that get too long.
We acknowledge many contributions and valuable suggestions by
Lawrence R. Dodd, Ralf Fassel, Ralph Finch, Stephen Gildea,
Dr. Anil Gokhale, Ulrich Mueller, Mark Neale, Eric Prestemon,
Gary Sabot and Richard Stallman.
*** modes/hideif.el
Commentary:
Hide-ifdef suppresses the display of code that the preprocessor wouldn't
pass through. The support of constant expressions in #if lines is
limited to identifiers, parens, and the operators: &&, ||, !, and
"defined". Please extend this.
*** modes/hideshow.el
Commentary:
This file provides `hs-minor-mode'. When active, six commands:
hs-{hide,show}-{all,block}, hs-show-region and hs-minor-mode
are available. They implement block hiding and showing. Blocks are
defined in mode-specific way. In c-mode or c++-mode, they are simply
curly braces, while in lisp-ish modes they are parens. Multi-line
comments (c-mode) can also be hidden. The command M-x hs-minor-mode
toggles the minor mode or sets it (similar to outline minor mode).
See documentation for each command for more info.
*** modes/icon.el
Commentary:
A major mode for editing the Icon programming language.
*** modes/ksh-mode.el
Description:
sh, ksh, and bash script editing commands for emacs.
This major mode assists shell script writers with indentation
control and control structure construct matching in much the same
fashion as other programming language modes. Invoke describe-mode
for more information.
*** modes/lisp-mnt.el
Commentary:
This minor mode adds some services to Emacs-Lisp editing mode.
First, it knows about the header conventions for library packages.
One entry point supports generating synopses from a library directory.
Another can be used to check for missing headers in library files.
*** modes/lisp-mode.el
Commentary:
The base major mode for editing Lisp code (used also for Emacs Lisp).
This mode is documented in the Emacs manual
*** modes/m4-mode.el
Commentary:
A smart editing mode for m4 macro definitions. It seems to have most of the
syntax right (sexp motion commands work, but function motion commands don't).
It also sets the font-lock syntax stuff for colorization
*** modes/mail-abbrevs.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/make-mode.el
Commentary:
A major mode for editing makefiles. The mode knows about Makefile
syntax and defines M-n and M-p to move to next and previous productions.
*** modes/modula2.el
Commentary:
A major mode for editing Modula-2 code. It provides convenient abbrevs
for Modula-2 keywords, knows about the standard layout rules, and supports
a native compile command.
*** modes/nroff-mode.el
Commentary:
This package is a major mode for editing nroff source code. It knows
about various nroff constructs, ms, mm, and me macros, and will fill
and indent paragraphs properly in their presence. It also includes
a command to count text lines (excluding nroff constructs), a command
to center a line, and movement commands that know how to skip macros.
*** modes/old-c-mode.el
Commentary:
A smart editing mode for C code. It knows a lot about C syntax and tries
to position the cursor according to C layout conventions. You can
change the details of the layout style with option variables. Load it
and do M-x describe-mode for details.
*** modes/outl-mouse.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/outline.el
Commentary:
This package is a major mode for editing outline-format documents.
An outline can be `abstracted' to show headers at any given level,
with all stuff below hidden. See the Emacs manual for details.
*** modes/pascal.el
Emacs should enter Pascal mode when you find a Pascal source file.
When you have entered Pascal mode, you may get more info by pressing
C-h m. You may also get online help describing various functions by:
C-h f <Name of function you want described>
*** modes/perl-mode.el
*** modes/picture.el
Commentary:
This code provides the picture-mode commands documented in the Emacs
manual. The screen is treated as a semi-infinite quarter-plane with
support for rectangle operations and `etch-a-sketch' character
insertion in any of eight directions.
*** modes/postscript.el Can't find any Commentary section
modes/prolog.el
Commentary:
This package provides a major mode for editing Prolog. It knows
about Prolog syntax and comments, and can send regions to an inferior
Prolog interpreter process.
*** modes/python-mode.el
Commentary:
This is a major mode for editing Python programs. It was developed
by Tim Peters after an original idea by Michael A. Guravage. Tim
subsequently left the net; in 1995, Barry Warsaw inherited the
mode and is the current maintainer.
*** modes/rexx-mode.el Can't find any Commentary section
*** modes/rsz-minibuf.el
Commentary:
This package allows the entire contents (or as much as possible) of the
minibuffer to be visible at once when typing. As the end of a line is
reached, the minibuffer will resize itself. When the user is done
typing, the minibuffer will return to its original size.
*** modes/scheme.el
Commentary:
Adapted from Lisp mode by Bill Rozas, jinx@prep.
Initially a query replace of Lisp mode, except for the indentation
of special forms. Probably the code should be merged at some point
so that
