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>
* 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>
* PROBLEMS: Update email address. Describe more HP Motif errors.
2000-02-19 Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch>
* 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>
* (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>
* 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>
* configure.in: Test for arm simply using arm* instead of arm-*
2000-01-05 Yoshiki Hayashi <t90553(a)mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* font-lock.el: Javadoc enhancements
1999-11-27 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch>
* 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>
Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei(a)aqua.ocn.ne.jp>
Jan Vroonhof <jan(a)xemacs.org>
* 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>
* package-get.el (package-get-download-sites): Use correct custom
type.
2000-02-15 Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson <kkm(a)dtmx.com>
* files.el (write-file): Ask for coding system when compiled with
file-coding.
2000-02-16 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* about.el: Ienaga's e-mail address change.
2000-02-16 Samuel Mikes <smikes(a)alumni.hmc.edu>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* internals/internals.texi: Made texinfmt-friendly.
2000-01-20 Mark Thomas <mthomas(a)jprc.com>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
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>
* 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>
* 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>
* s/windowsnt.h: Only use __declspec(noreturn) with MSVC>=6.
2000-02-18 Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com>
* 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>
* device-msw.c (mswindows_delete_device): Free DDE string
handles.
2000-02-16 Kirill 'Big K' Katsnelson <kkm(a)dtmx.com>
* 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>
* 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>
* console-tty.c (tty_init_console): Change MULE to FILE_CODING.
1999-11-27 Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* 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>
* automated/mule-tests.el: Added some fileio tests.
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We are evidently getting into a cycle where I just manage to commit a fix
that breaks everything and then XEmacs gets released. The tabs are broken
in this release although not as badly as before. I cannot currently
reproduce the problem but will post a fix when I find out what is wrong.
andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd