[429] in Software_Announce
xemacs locker upgraded to XEmacs 21.4.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Wed Sep 5 10:26:41 2001
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From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Date: 05 Sep 2001 10:26:27 -0400
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The xemacs locker has been upgraded to XEmacs 21.4.4 for all current
platforms (sun4x_58, sun4x_57, sgi_65, i386_linux24, i386_linux22,
i386_nbsd1). Additionally, all elisp software packages have been
updated to the most recent available versions.
The old version (21.1.4) will be available for some time as
/mit/xemacs/bin-21.1.4/xemacs in case there are any problems. If you
do encounter any problems, please report them to me or xemacs@mit.edu.
Notable changes:
- XEmacs has annoying ugly buffer tabs. Make these go away with
(setq gutter-buffer-tabs-visible-p nil)
- All platforms are now built with MULE (MULti-lingual Enhancements).
- Athena 9.0 machines will use ESD for sound playback.
- If you use nndsc.el (does anyone else use this?) the version
currently in circulation will break as it uses the depricated
'send-string' function. Change this to 'process-send-string', or
just use the nndsc.el in site-lisp.
- Gnus 5.8 nnml finds mail sources in a very different way than Gnus
5.6. 'nnmail-spool-file' has been replaced with the 'mail-sources'
variable, and 'nnmail-crash-box' has changed to
'mail-source-crash-box'. The site-start.el for XEmacs attempts to
set up a sensible mail-sources for Athena users, so you may not
need to make any changes.
See /mit/xemacs/lib/xemacs-21.4.4/etc/NEWS for details on all that has
changed in XEmacs 21.4.
--Jered
