From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim O'Callaghan Subject: Re: Attention XEmacs users Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:21:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20060615132109.GA1296@ELSAMSW37164> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqrmf-0001vG-3t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:21:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqrmc-0001uF-7H for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:21:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqrmc-0001uA-2v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:21:14 -0400 Received: from [193.120.211.34] (helo=dspsrv.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fqrw1-0000E1-2N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:30:57 -0400 Received: from [145.36.45.123] (helo=localhost) by dspsrv.com with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1FqrmZ-00021r-00 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:21:11 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:54:13PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > If you are using XEmacs to run org-mode, the following is important > for you: > > Starting with the next release of Org-mode (4.38, only a few days > away), Org-mode will require the use of noutline.el, a new > implementation of outline mode on which Org-mode is based. This new > implementation uses text overlays with invisibility properties to > hide text. This new implementation is already standard on GNU Emacs, > so nothing needs to be done if you are using GNU Emacs. > > XEmacs currently still uses the old implementation which is based on > selective display to hide text. This works great, but is much harder > to program for. Since there is now a port of noutline.el for XEmacs > which seems to work stably, I will enforce using it, to make things > much easier for the Org-mode side, and thus for me. Therefore, > starting with the next version of Org-mode you need to install > noutline.el. In the near future, I will slowly but surely remove the > code needed for compatibility with the old outline.el. > > The only way to keep me from doing what I just said is to download > noutline.el *now*, test it and report problems with it or with the > combination noutline/Org-mode. > > You may download it at > > http://www.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/noutline.el > > and install it in the usual way: byte-compile it, put both > noutline.el and noutline.elc on your load path. And put (for now) > (require 'noutline) somewhere early into your .xemacs/init.el file. > > Thanks for your understanding. > Could you just add it into a 'contrib' type directory in the distribution file? I was thinking of suggesting the creation of a contrib directory where you can throw things like this, as well as contributed perl scripts and other stuff such as the other org mode extensions.... Tim.