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- Subject: GNU Emacs FAQ (6/5): Changes
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,news.answers,comp.answers
- From: sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes)
- Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 02:52:18 GMT
-
- Archive-Name: GNU-Emacs-FAQ/diff
- Last-Modified: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 21:13:29 GMT
- Last-Posted: Tue, 4 May 1993 02:52:18 GMT
-
- GNU Emacs FAQ: Changes
-
- The latest version of the GNU Emacs FAQ has changed from the previous version.
- This article shows the changed text. The contents of this article are from the
- output of `diff -wu2'. Since the question numbers are generated automatically
- and can change, these are stripped from both versions before comparing them.
- After generating the differences for each part, they were concatenated and then
- edited to remove as much noise as possible. You can't use this as a patch.
-
- --
- Steven Byrnes <sbyrnes@rice.edu> (and Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>)
-
- E-mail lpf@uunet.uu.net for details about the League for Programming Freedom.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- @@ -345,5 +345,5 @@
- can get a PostScript version via anonymous FTP:
-
- - /cs.ubc.ca:src/gnu/manuals_ps/emacs-18.57.ps.Z
- + /cs.ubc.ca:pub/archive/gnu/manuals_ps/emacs-18.57.ps.Z
-
- which site requests that you please CONFINE ANY MAJOR FTPING TO LATE
- @@ -441,5 +441,5 @@
- Anonymous FTP:
- /archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:modes/info.el.Z
- - /cs.umn.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/info.el.Z
- + /ftp.uu.net:languages/emacs-lisp/modes/info.el.Z
-
- According to Jay Bourland <jayb@math.stanford.edu>, a version of Dave's
- @@ -611,5 +611,5 @@
- it might (or might not) do some good to complain to your news
- administrator, because the most recent FAQ should not expire before
- - March 6, 1993.
- + July 3, 1993.
-
- * Via anonymous FTP. You can fetch the FAQ articles via anonymous FTP
- @@ -693,9 +693,30 @@
- QQQ: When will GNU Emacs 19 be available?
-
- - There are strong indications that Emacs 19 will be available in 1992. The
- - FSF has recently gone through a spate of copyright disclaimer checking,
- - which is a good sign.
- + Richard Stallman recently (February 19, 1993) posted in gnu.emacs.help
- + the following:
-
- - Lucid has released Lucid GNU Emacs 19.3, which is based on an early
- + People should keep in mind that the successor of Emacs 18 does not
- + come from Lucid. Its is GNU Emacs 19. I still can't say exactly when
- + public release is going to be, but we are about to start testing at a
- + number of sites.
- +
- + GNU Emacs 19 will support a broad spectrum of machines, like Emacs
- + 18. Ensuring this is the purpose of the testing we are about to do.
- +
- + (Please don't volunteer; we have enough pretesters, and if more people
- + offer, dealing with those messages will slow things down.)
- +
- + Once we make sure it is indeed working reliably on various different
- + systems, we will have a public beta test release.
- +
- + Emacs 19 does support adding properties to ranges of text, and using
- + these to switch fonts. In the future, the Epoch people will help
- + merge support for variable-width fonts.
- +
- + Meanwhile, I have almost finished updating the Emacs Lisp manual. Its
- + next edition will describe Emacs 19. There will be an announcement
- + when we know when this edition will be available.
- +
- + Lucid has released Lucid GNU Emacs 19.6, which is based on an early
- unreleased version of GNU Emacs 19. This will be similar to Emacs 19 when
- it finally arrives, but they are not the same. See question QQQ.
- @@ -626,5 +626,34 @@
-
- `etags' takes options just like a prior version of ctags, so your ctags
- - manual (if any) may be useful. {Can someone send me the details on this?}
- + manual (if any) may be useful. Eoin Woods, in comp.emacs, writes the
- + following:
- +
- + From reading the source (!) the way I use it is:
- +
- + for f in `find <args>`
- + do
- + etags -at -f ETAGS $f
- + done
- +
- + The "-t" option means to create tags for typedefs as well as functions.
- + The "-a" option tells it to append to the output file. If you have a
- + small number of files (up to a few hundred I think) you can use it
- + direct as:
- +
- + etags -f ETAGS file1 file2 file3 ... filen
- +
- + The option list is:
- +
- + -f file - Specify the output file name (Default is "TAGS")
- + -a - Append to the output file. (Default is to rewrite it)
- + -t - Create tags for typedefs (default is just functions)
- + -u - Update the output file. Do not re-create it.
- + -w - Suppress warnings
- + -v - Create vgrind style indexed output (What is vgrind??)
- + -x - Create cxref style output (default is Emacs Tags)
- + -e - Emacs tags style output (the default the way I
- + compile it)
- +
- + Having got it working, it works fine!
-
-
- @@ -130,5 +130,5 @@
- ;; tex-complete|Sebastian Kremer|sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE
- ;; |Minibuffer name completion for editing [La]TeX.
- - ;; |91-03-26|$Revision: 19.4 $|~/packages/tex-complete.el.Z
- + ;; |91-03-26|$Revision: 20.5 $|~/packages/tex-complete.el.Z
-
- Dave Brennan has software which automatically looks for data in this
- @@ -298,11 +298,13 @@
- MicroEmacs is a descendant of Microemacs {originally by Dave Conroy?}.
- It is programmable in a BASIC-like language. Many of the keybindings
- - are different from GNU Emacs. It is rumored that MicroEmacs can not
- - correctly edit files larger than memory. The author is Daniel Lawrence
- - <dan@mdbs.uucp, mdbs!dan@ee.ecn.purdue.edu>. The latest version is 3.11
- + are different from GNU Emacs. The author is Daniel Lawrence
- + <dan@mdbs.uucp, mdbs!dan@ee.ecn.purdue.edu>. The latest version is 3.12
- and it is available via anonymous FTP:
-
- - /wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/uemacs/
- + /midas.mgmt.purdue.edu:dist/uemacs312/ (outside business hours)
-
- + Version 3.12 includes Windows and Windows NT versions and a DOS
- + protected mode (DMPI) version.
- +
- * JOVE
-
- @@ -439,9 +441,16 @@
-
- Richard Levitte <levitte@e.kth.se> tells us that there are patches for
- - Emacs 18.57 and 18.58 available via e-mail:
- + Emacs 18.57, 18.58, and 18.59 available via e-mail:
-
- - To: fileserv@ttt.kth.se
- + To: EMACS-FILESERV@e.kth.se
- body: SEND EMACS-1857-PATCHES
- or: SEND EMACS-1858-PATCHES
- + or: SEND EMACS-1859-PATCHES
- +
- + or via anonymous ftp at:
- +
- + /lucy.merrimack.edu:emacs-1859-patches.share
- +
- + The set of patches weighs in at around 2.7 MB.
-
- QQQ: Where can I get modes for Lex, Yacc/Bison, Bourne Shell, Csh, C++,
- @@ -517,8 +526,8 @@
- Mailing list: supercite-request@anthem.nlm.nih.gov (for subscriptions)
- supercite@anthem.nlm.nih.gov (for submissions)
- - Latest version: 2.2
- + Latest version: 2.3
- Anonymous FTP:
- - /archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/sc-2.2.tar.Z
- - /ftp.cme.nist.gov:pub/gnu/sc2.2.tar.Z
- + /archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/sc-2.3.tar.Z
- + /ftp.cme.nist.gov:pub/gnu/sc2.3.tar.Z
- Via e-mail:
- To: library@cme.nist.gov
- @@ -532,5 +541,4 @@
- Unofficial test version: 3.14.1
- Anonymous FTP:
- - /cs.umn.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/gnus-3.14.1.tar.Z.
- /aun.uninett.no:pub/gnus-3.14.1.tar.Z
- /wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp:pub/GNU/etc/gnus-3.14.1.tar.Z
- @@ -710,13 +718,15 @@
- Matthieu Devin <devin@lucid.com>
- Harlan Sexton <hbs@lucid.com>
- - Latest released version: 19.3
- + Latest released version: 19.6
- Anonymous FTP:
- - /labrea.stanford.edu:pub/gnu/lucid/lemacs-19.3.tar.Z (source)
- - /labrea.stanford.edu:pub/gnu/lucid/lemacs-19.3-sun4.tar.Z (Sun4binaries)
- + /labrea.stanford.edu:pub/gnu/lucid/lemacs-19.6.tar.Z (source)
- + /labrea.stanford.edu:pub/gnu/lucid/lemacs-19.6-sun4.tar.Z (Sun4binaries)
- Newsgroup and mailing lists:
- Bugs:
- + alt.lucid-emacs.bug
- bug-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com (for subscriptions)
- bug-lucid-emacs@lucid.com (for submissions)
- Help:
- + alt.lucid-emacs.help
- help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com (for subscriptions)
- help-lucid-emacs@lucid.com (for submissions)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992 Joseph Brian Wells
- Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Steven Byrnes
-
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