[2658] in Release_Engineering
emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 27 16:04:15 1991
From: ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 16:04:11 -0400
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
emacs version 18.57 is ready for the source tree:
1. source is in emacsdev locker, /mit/emacs/emacs-18.57
2. You'll need to replace the top level Imakefile with
/mit/emacs/release/Imakefile.top, and the Imakefile in
the src directory with /mit/emacs/release/Imakefile.src
3. Remember that version.el must be symlinked.
Good luck!
For the release notes:
Major changes in emacs:
* Does *not* use the X toolkit. Selection, cut, and paste code is written in Xlib.
This saves about 200-300k in the process size. Supports many X toolkit-like
command line options and resources, however. The mouse pastes at mouse position,
rather than at cursor position.
* X Menu library is included. Ctrl-Shift <middle-button> in emacs will
bring up help menus for emacs.
* RMAIL BABYL format has changed, so rmail will have problems with labels when
reading RMAIL files generated by earlier versions of emacs.
* Supports 8-bit character display, and hence has more support for foreign
language text editing. (setq meta-display t) will activate
this. (setq ctl-arrow t) will bring emacs back to 7-bit mode, so that
characters past 127 will appear as escaped octals; e.g. \200.
Known bugs:
* M-x shell will not work on AUX unless you use the Bourne shell.
-Calvin
