From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Brockman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating the homepage Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:35:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87649eaqti.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> References: <87mz2tqhhn.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <878xeayadw.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173224102 12215 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2007 23:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:35:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 00:34:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOjBI-0000mo-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOjBJ-0004hv-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOjB8-0004hq-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOjB6-0004he-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOjB6-0004hb-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HOjB4-0003x2-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:34:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HOjAu-00038I-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:33 +0100 Original-Received: from c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.226.254.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:34:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 107 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se X-Face: :&2UWGm>e24)ip~'K@iOsA&JT3JX*v@1-#L)=dUb825\Fwg#`^N!Y*g-TqdS AevzjFJe96f@V'ya8${57/T'"mTd`1o{TGYhHnVucLq!D$r2O{IN)7>.0op_Y`%r;/Q +(]`3F-t10N7NF\.Mm0q}p1:%iqTi:5]1E]rDF)R$9.!,Eu'9K':y9^U3F8UCS1M+A$ 8[[[WT^`$P[vu>P+8]aQMh9giu&fPCqLW2FSsGs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lCcusNKesXtTdKPPhJNvuXW7W6Q= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67457 Archived-At: Romain Francoise writes: > I wrote the following text in the Emacs FAQ (C-h C-f). > Improvements welcome. I like it, and here are some suggestions for improvements. The paragraphs that just enumerate features and changes in no particular order might be better presented as bulleted lists. I suggest something like the following. | Listed are some of the user-visible changes in Emacs 22. | | - Font Lock mode, Auto Compression mode, and File Name | Shadow mode are enabled by default. [Normalized capitalization of mode names.] | - The maximum size of buffers has been doubled and is | now 256M on 32-bit machines. | | - Links can be followed using `mouse-1'. [Removed the qualifying phrase `on graphical displays' --- by the way, is it not possible to follow links using t-mouse?] | - Mouse wheel support is enabled by default. | | - Window fringes are customizable. | | - The mode line of the selected window is highlighted on | graphical displays. [Changed `modeline' to `mode line' and `graphic displays' to `graphical displays'.] | - The minibuffer prompt is displayed in a distinct face. | | - Abbrev definitions are read automatically at startup. | | - Grep mode is now separate from Compilation mode and | has many new options and commands specific to grep. [Slight change of word order.] | - The original Emacs macro system has been replaced by | the Kmacro package, which provides many new commands | and features and a simple interface that uses the | function keys F3 and F4. Macros are stored in a macro | ring, and can be debugged and edited interactively. | | - The Grand Unified Debugger (GUD) can be used with a | full graphical user interface to the backend debugger; | this provides many features found in traditional | development environments, making it easy to manipulate | breakpoints, add watch points, display the call stack, etc. | Breakpoints are visually indicated in the source buffer. [I reworded this a little bit.] | - Many new modes and packages have been included in | Emacs, such as Calc, TRAMP, URL, IDO, CUA, ERC, rcirc, | Table, Tumme, SES, Ruler, Org, PGG, Flymake, Password, | Printing, Reveal, wdired, t-mouse, longlines, | savehist, Conf mode, Python mode, DNS mode, etc. [Changed the order of the packages in an attempt to make the list easier to read; for example, I put all the `Foo mode' at the end.] | - Leim is now part of Emacs. Unicode support has been | much improved, and the following input methods have | been added: belarusian, bulgarian-bds, | bulgarian-phonetic, chinese-sisheng, croatian, dutch, | georgian, latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, | latin-prefix, latvian-keyboard, lithuanian-numeric, | lithuanian-keyboard, malayalam-inscript, rfc1345, | russian-computer, sgml, slovenian, tamil-inscript, | ucs, ukrainian-computer, vietnamese-telex, and welsh. [Added a comma between `tamil-inscript' and `ucs'.] | - The following language environments have been added: | Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese-EUC-TW, Croatian, | French, Georgian, Italian, Latin-6, Latin-7, Latvian, | Lithuanian, Malayalam, Russian, Russian, Slovenian, | Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, UTF-8, Ukrainian, Ukrainian, | Welsh, and Windows-1255. [Added an `s' to `environment'.] | - Emacs can be built with GTK+ widgets, and supports | drag-and-drop operations on X. | | - Emacs 22 features support for GNU/Linux systems on | S390 and x86-64 machines, as well as for Cygwin and | Mac OS X systems. | | - The Emacs 22 distribution includes the Emacs Lisp | Reference Manual (*note Emacs Lisp documentation::) | and the Emacs Lisp Intro. | | Many other changes have been made; use `C-h n' to get a | full list. -- Daniel Brockman