JC> Having followed this list for quite sometime and being an avid XEmacs user JC> for many years, I've decided it's time to get myself involved in the beta JC> series. So, having downloaded and built the 21.2.29 release, I have some JC> newbie questions: JC> 1) Where do I find out what's new relative to 21.1.x? I'd like to know what JC> nifty features have been added and how they are supposed to work so that I JC> can properly play with it. For example, I know from the list that we now JC> have tabs and gutters. Great! What should they be able to do for me and JC> how do I find out more about them? The NEWS is supposed to be in NEWS - C-h n. However, that is incomplete at this point, and must be supplemented by looking at CHANGES-beta, and for (too much) more detail, the ChangeLogs. Before 21.2 is released, there will probably be a mad period of updating the NEWS file. JC> 2) I did my build, for the most part, using the default values for the configure JC> script. I am building and running on a Solaris 7 system using X11R6 and gcc. JC> Are there any configure options I should explicitly specify so that I can JC> access some new, whizbang feature? Are there special widgets I can activate JC> to change the GUI look? Or is the default configure the way we typically JC> test? I think configure --help documents everything you can do currently. There is a pending documentation patch for gutters by Steven Turnbull. (Documentation is often not the first priority of free software hackers.) Standard development policy is to turn on all new features by default in the betas. Martin