emacs 19.34 to emacs-21.3 changes

[Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>]

I just went from emacs-19.34 to emacs-21.3 on Solaris 8. A lot has happened
over the last few years.

There are a few things I just can't figure out.

1.    How do you make the initial screen go away without clicking on it? I
      fire up RMAIL in my .emacs. I see RMAIL come up and then the initial
      screen comes up and I have to click to make it go away. In 19.34 it
      would not come up if RMAIL was started.


2.    In perl-mode it seems to be checking for what color to make everything
      across the whole buffer interactively. I delete a " from a string and
      the whole buffer turns blue. The I put the " back and eventually it
      will turn back to normal colors. 19.34 only did this on the line being
      worked on. Is there a way to get the old behaviour?

3,    I am not sure but I think I had a similar problem when editing an RMAIL
      message that had lots of " and ' characters. I would edit and it would
      take forever to take my typing as I moved things around. I did have a
      couple of large attachments in other mail messages so the rmail buffer
      size was about 3meg.

4.    I can't figure out how to enable the browser and mime modes for rmail
      messages. Any help here would be appreciated.


Hope someone can help. I hope responses can be by email. I don't frequent the
news pages but can if needed.

Thank you

Warren Dodge