[457] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Proposed emacs 18 banner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 5 13:17:32 1996
To: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:34:05 EST."
<9604051534.AA12089@ferd.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 13:17:24 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The things that I am aware of are:
> - in mh-rmail, r is now reply, and esc-d is re-dist
> - line number now appears in the status line
> - the stuff Jonathon reported to testers (#14271 in bugs)
There are way too many new features in Emacs 19.30 to be providing a
list of them. I think it's important to focus on the things which
people will dislike or ask questions about.
I have a "short list" of changes, culled from the NEWS file (^H n) and
other random sources, in /mit/ghudson/dev/emacs19-changes. I will add
changes if people report things that bit them during the upgrade. (I
haven't dealt with Jonathan's key-binding weirdness yet.)
Here is a new proposed banner for emacs 18
(/mit/ghudson/dev/emacs19-banner). It includes a mention of emacs the
SGI situation to avoid confusing users about the SGIs.
* * * * * IMPORTANT NOTICE * * * * *
This summer, the default emacs on Athena will be upgraded to version
19.30, which is significantly different from the current version. The
main reason for this change is that emacs 19 is significantly easier
to learn how to use than emacs 18. If you want to try out and adjust
to emacs 19 before the upgrade, you can run "emacs19" instead of
"emacs". If you have questions about emacs 19, you can ask them
through the On-Line Consultant system ("olc").
(SGIs already use emacs 19.28 as the default, which is similar to, but
not quite the same as, emacs 19.30. You can run "emacs19" on an SGI
to get emacs 19.30.)
