[444] in Release_7.7_team
emacs 19.30 in testing in the beta packs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Mar 24 16:45:37 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 16:45:04 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: dcns-dev@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, acs@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, consultants@MIT.EDU
Sorry this happened so much later than planned.
After a few days of casual testing by me, Emacs 19.30 is now in place
on the beta system packs as "emacs19". If your machine is in the beta
cluster, you should be able to run "emacs19" out of /usr/athena/bin
and get something resembling what we expect to make the default emacs
this summer. (The main user-visible difference is that right now, the
info directory which users get when they type ^HI is the same as the
emacs 18 info directory; when emacs 19 becomes the default, it may
have upgraded info files.)
Since this update did not involve a letter bump, you will need to run
"/usr/athena/bin/mkserv update" as root to make the change visible if
your workstation has been privatized. This applies to most staff
members with machines in the beta cluster, I think.
In a week or so (after people in the beta cluster have had a chance to
find problems), we expect to put emacs19 in the public system packs so
that users can start getting used to it before it becomes the default
in the summer. Users who just run "emacs" should not notice anything
different at that point except for an updated banner message
encouraging them to start getting used to emacs 19. Users who run
emacs19 out of the emacs19 locker may become confused by the presence
of an emacs19 in /usr/athena/bin; there will be an announcement to
cfyi about this when it happens.
On the SGIs, the command "emacs" still gets you 19.28, while "emacs19"
is the 19.30 we expect to make the default this summer.
I should be available to help documentation and minicourse people
prepare for the summer emacs 19 upgrade. I will be going through the
emacs 19 news files next week and trying to compile a list of changes
likely to affect users here, although it will be difficult to predict
just what people are relying on in their .emacs files.
