XEmacs 21.2.30 is released.

Brief summary of changes to 21.2.30 "Hygeia" -- Make (find-tag-other-window) always use other window, even if tag is found in buffer of current window, Samuel Mikes -- Make configure complain about broken compiler versions (Jan Vroonhof, Yoshiki Hayashi, Bill Perry) -- `write-region' now deals properly with non-ASCII file names, Martin Buchholz -- `file-truename' now respects file-name-coding-system, Martin Buchholz -- arm configure support fixed. -- non-ASCII string handling performance boost, Martin Buchholz -- Garbage collector performance boost, Martin Buchholz -- Lisp engine performance boost, Martin Buchholz -- New ldap API (Oscar Figueiredo) -- (- 0) is now optimized to 0, not (-), Martin Buchholz -- More gutter tabs fixes, Andy Piper -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-20 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in: Enforce use of autoconf version >= 2.13. * configure.in: Fix OS release test on Solaris. 2000-02-19 Marcus Thiessel <marcus(a)xemacs.org&gt; * PROBLEMS: Update email address. Describe more HP Motif errors. 2000-02-19 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; * configure.in: Split Solaris version test in two parts. In the Bourne shell the "-a" operator does NOT short-circuit. 1999-12-15 Jan Vroonhof <jan(a)xemacs.org&gt; * (configure.in): Autodetect broken gcc versions. Patch from WM Perry with tiny tweaks by Yoshiki Hayashi and yours truly. 2000-02-17 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in: Autodetect sys/param.h. Reorganize AC_CHECK_HEADERS call. * src/config.h.in: Add HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H. 2000-02-16 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in: Test for arm simply using arm* instead of arm-* 2000-01-05 Yoshiki Hayashi <t90553(a)mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; * etc/TUTORIAL.ja: Synch with English version. -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/lisp/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-19 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-plus): (byte-optimize-minus): (byte-optimize-multiply): Optimize (- 0) to 0, not (-) Optimize (+ 5 3.0) to 8.0 Optimize (* 5 3.0) to 15.0 Improve readability. 2000-02-21 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * modeline.el: (modeline-scrolling-method): change modeline mswindows cursor appearance according to the value. * msw-faces.el: (mswindows-init-device-faces): Initialise 'default and 'gui-element face colors and 'gui-element face font to Windows defaults. 2000-02-09 Stef Epardaud <stef(a)lunatech.com&gt; * font-lock.el: Javadoc enhancements 1999-11-27 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch&gt; * ldap.el (toplevel): Test if LDAP support has been compiled in (ldap-verbose): New option (ldap-search-entries): Renamed from the previous ldap-search Conditionalize message display on ldap-verbose (ldap-add-entries, ldap-modify-entries, ldap-delete-entries): New defuns (ldap-search): Is now defined as an obsolete wrapper calling ldap-search-basic or ldap-search-entries 1999-12-06 Hirokazu FUKUI <hfukui(a)sannet.ne.jp&gt; Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei(a)aqua.ocn.ne.jp&gt; Jan Vroonhof <jan(a)xemacs.org&gt; * byte-optimize.el (byte-optimize-form-code-walker): Fixed. When for-effect is true, didn't call `byte-optimize-form' in and/or subforms without last. 1999-12-07 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; * package-get.el (package-get-download-sites): Use correct custom type. 2000-02-15 Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson <kkm(a)dtmx.com&gt; * files.el (write-file): Ask for coding system when compiled with file-coding. 2000-02-16 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * buffer.el (switch-to-buffer): give norecord argument to set-window-buffer instead of explicitly recording. * gutter-items.el (buffers-tab-switch-to-buffer): don't record if we have to pick a window. 1999-12-24 Yoshiki Hayashi <t90553(a)mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; * mule/mule-cmds.el (describe-language-support): Don't add unexist function to help-map. (describe-coding-system): Don't use already assigend `C'. 2000-01-23 Björn Torkelsson <torkel(a)hpc2n.umu.se&gt; * info.el (Info-save-auto-generated-dir): nil -> 'never to make it work in custom. 2000-02-04 Kazuyuki IENAGA <kazz(a)imasy.or.jp&gt; * about.el: Ienaga's e-mail address change. 2000-02-16 Samuel Mikes <smikes(a)alumni.hmc.edu&gt; * etags.el (find-tag): force new window -- even if buf already visible -- when other-window is t -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/lwlib/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-21 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * lwlib.c (merge_widget_value_args): don't delete the args before copying, lw_copy_widget_value_args will do this for us if necessary. (lw_add_widget_value_arg): Allow existing args to be replaced. (free_widget_value_args): Set args to 0 rather than 0xdeadbeef, reference couting works better that way. (lw_copy_widget_value_args): Do the right thing. * lwlib-Xm.c (xm_create_progress): Make sensitive as this looks much better. * lwlib-Xaw.c (xaw_create_progress): ditto. 2000-02-12 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; * xlwmenu.h (XmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAP): Define this if we are using Motif compatible resource names. * xlwmenu.c (make_shadow_gcs): Always check for XmUNSPECIFIED_PIXMAP even if we are only 'compatible' with the Motif resources. 2000-02-15 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * xlwgauge.c (GaugeExpose): remove shadows. -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/man/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-21 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * internals/internals.texi: Made texinfmt-friendly. 2000-01-20 Mark Thomas <mthomas(a)jprc.com&gt; * lispref/backups.texi (Numbered Backups): * xemacs/files.texi (Backup Deletion): Change trim-versions-without-asking to delete-old-versions. 2000-02-19 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * internals/internals.texi (Conversion to and from External Data): Document TO_EXTERNAL_FORMAT and friends. Doc bug fixes. -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/nt/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-21 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * README: Tidy up. Document need for makeinfo program or texinfo package. * Xmd.patch: New file, previously in README. 2000-02-17 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * config.h: Delete unused HAVE_LINUX_VERSION_H. -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/src/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-20 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; Performance hacking. * *.c (syms_of_*): Add INIT_LRECORD_IMPLEMENTATION macros, paired with DEFINE_LRECORD_IMPLEMENTATION macros in the same file. * emacs.c (main_1): * lisp.h (DEFUN): * console.c (DEFVAR_CONSOLE_LOCAL_1): * buffer.c (DEFVAR_BUFFER_LOCAL_1): * symeval.h (DEFVAR_SYMVAL_FWD): * symbols.c (guts_of_unbound_marker): Make all c_readonly objects also lisp_readonly and marked for life. * lrecord.h (struct lrecord_implementation): Document flags better. * lrecord.h (DEFINE_LRECORD_SEQUENCE_IMPLEMENTATION_WITH_PROPS): * lrecord.h (DECLARE_LRECORD): * lrecord.h (XSETRECORD): * lrecord.h (RECORDP): * lrecord.h (RECORD_TYPEP): * lrecord.h (RECORD_MARKER): New. * lrecord.h (error_check_*): * lrecord.h (CONCHECK_NONRECORD): * lrecord.h (MAKE_LRECORD_IMPLEMENTATION): * lrecord.h (INIT_LRECORD_IMPLEMENTATION): New. * lrecord.h (set_lheader_implementation): * lrecord.h (enum lrecord_type): New. * symeval.h (SYMBOL_VALUE_MAGIC_P): * alloc.c (disksave_object_finalization_1): * alloc.c (mark_object): * alloc.c (lrecord_type_index): * alloc.c (tick_lcrecord_stats): * alloc.c (Fgarbage_collect): * alloc.c (init_alloc_once_early): * alloc.c (pdump_load): * alloc.c (GC_CHECK_LHEADER_INVARIANTS): New. * alloc.c (lrecord_type_index): Delete. Make lisp object type indexes be constant. Makes (byte-compile) 5% faster. Put all marker functions into their own array. Makes (garbage-collect) 5% faster. Optimize SYMBOL_VALUE_MAGIC_P. Makes (byte-compile) 2-3% faster. * config.h.in (gc_checking_assert): New. * alloc.c: Use gc_checking_assert(). * .dbxrc: Make compatible with new object type implementation. * .gdbinit: Make compatible with new object type implementation. * alloc.c: Delete all symbols defined only for debugging, such as Lisp_Type_Vector and lrecord_charset. 2000-02-21 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * gui-msw.c (Fmswindows_shell_execute): fix file location problems. * buffer.c (Fkill_buffer): remove buffer from alist buffer unshowing so that set_window_buffer doesn't undo kill_buffer_hook's hard work. * glyphs-widget.c (tab_control_query_geometry): don't count the first item when calculating geometry. * glyphs.c (map_subwindow): remove redundant code. (update_frame_subwindows): be more circumspect about when to update subwindows. * glyphs-x.c (x_update_widget): Properly fix sizing bug. Fix bug when items haven't changed. Update faces if faces have changed as well as just the widget face. (x_tab_control_update): Update faces if faces have changed as well as just the widget face. 2000-02-21 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * device-msw.c: (mswindows_delete_device): Remove redundant DDE registration. (build_syscolor_string): Use mswindows_color_to_string to try to get a named color. (mswindows_device_system_metrics): Reverse the foreground and background colors so that they match the documentation. * objects-msw.c: (mswindows_X_color_map): tweak some values so they match the default Windows palette. (mswindows_color_to_string): New function. 2000-02-21 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * s/windowsnt.h: Only use __declspec(noreturn) with MSVC>=6. 2000-02-18 Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; * m/*, s/*: Removed obsolete DATA_SEG_BITS, PURE_SEG_BITS, WORD_MACHINE, SIGN_EXTEND_CHAR and EXPLICIT_SIGN_EXTEND. * symbols.c (init_symbols_once_early): Removed obsolete DATA_SEG_BITS related kludge. (defvar_magic): Ditto. * malloc.c: Removed obsolete DATA_SEG_BITS * ralloc.c: Ditto. * mem-limits.h: Ditto. * Makefile.in.in: Removed obsolete HAVE_SHM * emacs.c: Ditto. 2000-02-13 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * device-msw.c (mswindows_delete_device): Free DDE string handles. 2000-02-16 Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson <kkm(a)dtmx.com&gt; * keymap.c (get_keyelt): * unexnt.c (unexec): * vm-limit.c (memory_warnings): * ntheap.c (recreate_heap): * ntheap.h (UNINIT_PTR): * select-msw.c (Fmswindows_get_clipboard): (Fmswindows_set_clipboard): * objects-msw.h (MSWINDOWS_BAD_HFONT): * objects-msw.c: * menubar-msw.c (displayable_menu_item): * glyphs-msw.c: * glyphs-msw.h (IMAGE_INSTANCE_MSWINDOWS_MASK): * sysdep.c (sys_subshell): * process-nt.c (nt_create_process): * nt.c (normalize_filename): (dostounix_filename): (unixtodos_filename): * ntproc.c (win32_executable_type): * ntplay.c (play_sound_data_1): (play_sound_file): * editfns.c (get_home_directory): * event-msw.c (struct winsock_stream): (mswindows_dde_callback): * device-msw.c (msprinter_init_device): (msprinter_get_devmode_copy): Frobbed syntax frivolities. * toolbar-msw.c (mswindows_free_frame_toolbars): Paramters to mswindows_clear_toolbar were swapped! * objects-msw.c:(colormap_t): (fontmap_t): * emacs.c (struct standard_args): Fixed const jumble. * glyphs-widget.c (update_widget): Fixed comparison notation. * event-msw.c (mswindows_dde_callback): Removed extraneous ';'. * s\windowsnt.h (DOESNT_RETURN): Defined to support the MSVC __declspec(noreturn) syntax. 2000-02-19 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * eldap.c (Fldap_open): (Fldap_search_basic): (Fldap_add): (Fldap_modify): Use new coding system conversion macros. 2000-01-06 Yoshiki Hayashi <t90553(a)mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; * console-tty.c (tty_init_console): Change MULE to FILE_CODING. 1999-11-27 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch&gt; * eldap.h (Fldap_search) Renamed from Fldap_search_internal: (Fldap_add, Fldap_modify, Fldap_delete): New functions * eldap.c (Qadd, Qreplace): New constant symbols (Fldap_open): Use the LDAP_OPT_RESTART option to avoid interruptions by XEmacs signals Remove unnecessary calls to slow_down_interrupts and speed_up_interrupts (Fldap_search_basic): Renamed from Fldap_search_internal Added new optional parameter VERBOSE that triggers the display of progress messages Remove unnecessary calls to slow_down_interrupts and speed_up_interrupts LDAP result code analysis rewritten (Fldap_add, Fldap_modify, Fldap_delete): New functions (syms_of_eldap): Define the new symbols and functions 2000-02-17 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * realpath.c: Determine PATH_MAX maximally portably. * insdel.c (bytecount_to_charcount): Optimize. The function used to be optimized for entirely ASCII sequences. Now it is optimized for successive characters from the same charset. This also wins big for _mostly_ ASCII sequences. * fileio.c (Ffile_truename): convert return from realpath() using Qfile_name, not Qbinary. Fixes obvious bug with non-ASCII symlinks. - Rewrite GCPROing slightly. * sysdep.c (sys_open): Do filename conversion, like all other sys_* functions. Fixes bug: (let ((file-name-coding-system 'iso-8859-2)) (write-region x y latin2-name)) ==> writes filename using internal encoding. 2000-02-18 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * buffer.c (DEFVAR_BUFFER_LOCAL_1): Turn on c_readonly. Always const. * console.c (DEFVAR_CONSOLE_LOCAL_1): Turn on c_readonly. Always const. * symeval.h (DEFVAR_SYMVAL_FWD): Turn on c_readonly. Always const. * eval.c (lrecord_subr): Remove this_one_is_unmarkable. * symbols.c (lrecord_symbol_value_forward): Remove this_one_is_unmarkable. * symbols.c (guts_of_unbound_marker): Turn on c_readonly. * lrecord.h (UNMARKABLE_LRECORD_HEADER_P): Delete. (CONST_IF_NOT_DEBUG): Delete. * alloc.c (this_one_is_unmarkable): Delete. (mark_object): Don't check for this_one_is_unmarkable. Use the c_readonly flag instead. * lisp.h (DEFUN): Define a Lisp_Subr as c_readonly. 2000-02-18 Jonathan Harris <jhar(a)tardis.ed.ac.uk&gt; * event-msw.c (mswindows_drain_windows_queue): (emacs_mswindows_handle_magic_event): Remove attempt to optimise away redundant repaint events. 2000-02-17 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; * redisplay.h: declare mark_redisplay_structs. * redisplay.c (redisplay_window): (redisplay_frame): don't check subwindows_state_changed. (mark_redisplay): mark gutters here. * glyphs.c: (instantiate_image_instantiator): always layout if we haven't done so already. (allocate_image_instance): don't mark as dirty. (update_subwindow): bind inhibit_quit. * gutter.c (mark_gutters): new function. * glyphs-x.c (x_update_widget): Always resize to get round a widget bug. * glyphs-msw.c (mswindows_tab_control_update): remove `;' that was breaking absolutely everything. * gutter.h: declare mark_gutters. -------- ChangeLog entries from xemacs-21.2.30/tests/ChangeLog ------- 2000-02-17 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * automated/mule-tests.el: Added some fileio tests.