Module Name:	pkgsrc
Committed By:	uebayasi
Date:		Tue Feb 25 02:17:43 UTC 2003

Modified Files:
	pkgsrc/doc: CHANGES

Log Message:
Note update of XEmacs 21.4.12 "Portable Code".

	* The XEmacs Project announced that 21.4 is the official stable branch.
	  21.4.12 is the first release of the branch.  The XEmacs 21.1 series
	  is retired.

	* Changes new in 21.4 are as below

* Changes in XEmacs 21.4
========================

** Summary of user-visible changes:

  -- The delete key now deletes forward by default.
  -- Shifted motion keys now select text by default.
  -- You can now build XEmacs with support for GTK+ widget set.
  -- ~/.xemacs/init.el is now the preferred location for the init file.
    - XEmacs now supports a `~/.xemacs/init.el' startup file.
    - Custom file will move to ~/.xemacs/custom.el.
  -- Much-improved sample init.el, showing how to use many useful features.
  -- XEmacs support for menu accelerators has been much improved.
  -- Default menubar improvements.
    - Default menubar has many new commands and better organization.
    - The font-menu is now available under MS Windows.
  -- Dialog box improvements, including a real file dialog box.
    - XEmacs now has a proper file dialog box under MS Windows (and GTK)!
    - The old clunky file dialog box is improved.
    - Keyboard traversal now works correctly in MS Windows dialog boxes.
    - There is a Search dialog box available from Edit->Find...
  -- New buffer tabs.
  -- There is a new MS Windows installer, netinstall, ported from Cygwin.
  -- The subprocess quote-handling mechanism under Windows is much improved.
  -- Printing support now available under MS Windows.
  -- Selection improvements.
    - Kill and yank now interact with the clipboard under Windows.
    - MS Windows support for selection is now much more robust.
    - Motif selection support is now more correct (but slower).
  -- Mail spool locking now works correctly.
  -- International support changes.
    - The default coding-priority-list is now safer.
    - International keysyms are now supported under X.
    - MS Windows 1251 code page now supported.
    - Czech, Thai, Cyrillic-KOI8, Vietnamese, Ethiopic now supported.
    - Proper support for words in Latin 3 and Latin 4.
  -- Help buffers contain hyperlinks, and other changes.
  -- The modeline's text is now scrollable.
  -- The mouse wheel under MS Windows now functions correctly.
  -- Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
    - Incremental search will now highlight all visible matches.
    - Interactive searches always respect uppercase characters.
  -- Rectangle functions rewritten to avoid inserting extra spaces.
  -- New command `kill-entire-line' that always kills the entire line.
  -- Default values correctly stored in minibuffer histories.
  -- You can now create "indirect buffers", like in GNU Emacs.
  -- Pixel-based scrolling has been implemented.
  -- Operation progress can be displayed using graphical widgets.
  -- User names following a tilde can now be completed at file name prompts.
  -- XEmacs can now play sound using Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD).
  -- X-Face support is now available under MS Windows.
  -- The PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is now supported.
  -- Indentation no longer indents comments that begin at column zero.
  -- Face and variable settings can have comments in Customize.
  -- New locations for early package hierarchies.
  -- The `auto-save' library has been greatly improved.
  -- New variable `mswindows-alt-by-itself-activates-menu'.
  -- Other init-file-related changes.
    - Init file in your home directory may be called `.emacs.el'.
    - New command-line switches -user-init-file and -user-init-directory.
  -- Etags changes.
    - In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
    - New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.
    - New option --declarations, for C-type languages.
    - In C++, tags are created for "operator".
    - Ada now supported.
    - In Fortran, procedure is no longer tagged.
    - In Java, tags are created for "interface".
    - In Lisp, def-type constructs are now tagged.
    - In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables.
    - Python now supported.
    - New file extensions recognized: .ss, .pdb, .psw.


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