Nip-FAQ-in-the-bud: What's a "behavior"?

Stephen> A fair number of new "behaviors", as well as preliminary Stephen> documentation on "behaviors", has been added. What's a "behavior"? Well, we have "autoloads", which ensure that functionality is available _without_ preloading all 50MB or so of compiled package Lisp, and we have "customize" which allows us to predefine behavior without actually loading the package (once we've saved the customization). But what if you discover a nifty new feature and you customize it, and now you want all 96 buffers in your current instance to obey the customization? One approach is to restart XEmacs using something like desktop.el, that revisits all the files you had open. But that's time consuming and often doesn't get you back to the state you were in. Ben is adding an alternative called "behaviors." These are features along with functions that globally enable them in the running XEmacs. There are new nodes under Customization in the User's Guide and the Lispref describing behaviors in a bit more detail. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.