Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 22.3.5 CVS compiled for NT

[Norbert Cauderan]

You have the full NEWS file at :
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS?rev=1.748&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Norbert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Praetorius" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 22.3.5 CVS compiled for NT


> [2nd try - problems with the local SMTP server on the 1st try.]
> 
> > Uh....am I missing something here?...do you mean "22.3.5" or should it 
> be
> > "21.3.5"?....I didn't think that version 22 was going to be ready any
> > time soon at all....
> 
>      Good point.  Even XEmacs Beta (which usually runs numerically ahead 
> of Emacs) is only up to 21.5.9.  Emacs README in CVS says 21.3.50 and 
> runnings strings on the emacs.exe in the tar file turns up the same.
> 
>      Here are MS Windows-related items from etc/NEWS (from a quick a non-
> comprehensive skim of it):
> 
> ** On MS Windows, the "system caret" now follows the cursor.
> This enables Emacs to work better with programs that need to track
> the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
> 
> ** Tooltips now work on MS Windows.
> See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
> 
> ** Some images are now supported on Windows.
> PBM and XBM images are supported, other formats which require external
> libraries may be supported in future.
> 
> ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS 
> Windows.
> The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
> whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
> pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
> 
> ** On MS Windows, locale-coding-system is used to interact with the OS.
> The Windows specific variable w32-system-coding-system, which was
> formerly used for that purpose is now an alias for locale-coding-system.
> 
> more generally:
> 
> ** Leim is now part of the Emacs distribution.
> You no longer need to download a separate tarball in order to build
> Emacs with Leim.
> 
> ** The `emacsserver' program has been removed, replaced with elisp code.
> 
> ** On X, MS Windows, and Mac OS, the blinking cursor's "off" state is
> now shown as a hollow box or a thin bar.  However, you can control how
> it blinks off by setting the variable `blink-cursor-alist'.
> 
> ** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window
> (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'.
> 
> and about 260 other changes
> 
> 
>