- Screen update speed has been improved by a factor of three.
- Much improved memory management. This includes EMACS tracking used
and available memory and reporting warnings to the user at the
75, 85, and 95 percent used levels.
- All support files found in the e-lisp/ directory, have
had their names truncated to meet the 8.3 specifications of the Atari
file system. This should ensure that EMACS runs even if
UNIXMODE is not active.
- A bug has been fixed where spawned external commands that wrote to
stderr were not being redirected properly.
- Support for ``M-x compile'' and ``M-x grep'' commands,
along with general support for launching external programs directly,
without the need for an interactive shell. See the support files
``e-lisp/st/compile.el'' and e-lisp/st/process.el for
in depth information.
- Switch Termcap support from EMACS internal routines to the
``termcap.olb'' that comes with the port of Gnu C for the
Atari ST/TT. This has the advantage
of having a default termcap
entry built in. Also this termcap library supports termcap files
that have either <lf> or <cr><lf> as line delimiters.
- Paths in all environment variables may now be specified in either of the
two formats, X:
\<path> or /dev/X/<path>.
- When EMACS launches external executables it now searches for the
files along the PATH environment variable and checks for files
with the standard Atari ST/TT extensions (``.ttp'', ``.tos'', and ``
.prg'').
- ``.emacs'' initialization file has been renamed to
``emacs.rc'' which is a valid TOS file name.