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From: wargaski@ils.nwu.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.)
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Subject: Re: emacs-19 -- What's in it?
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Date: 19 Sep 90 19:49:41 GMT
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Following is extracted from the most recent issue of Gnu's Bulletin
(June 1990):

GNU Project Status Report
*************************

   * GNU Emacs

     GNU Emacs 18 is now stable.  Only a few important bugs have
     been encountered since Version 18.55.

     Berkeley is distributing GNU Emacs with the 4.3 distribution,
     and numerous companies also distribute it.

     Version 18 maintenance continues and a new version, 18.56, is
     expected soon.  It has no new features, however.  Version 19
     approaches release with a host of new features: before and
     after change hooks; X selection processing (including
     CLIPBOARD selections); scrollbars; support for European
     character sets; floating point numbers; per-buffer mouse
     commands; interfacing with the X resource manager;
     mouse-tracking; Lisp-level binding of function keys; and
     multiple X windows (`screens' to Emacs).

     Thanks go to Alan Carroll and the people who worked on Epoch
     for generating initial feedback to a multi-windowed Emacs.
     Emacs 19 supports two styles of multiple windows, one with a
     separate screen for the minibuffer, and another with a
     minibuffer attached to each screen.

     More features of Version 19 are buffer allocation, which uses
     a new mechanism capable of returning storage to the system
     when a buffer is killed, and a new input system---all input
     now arrives in the form of Lisp objects.

     Other features being considered for Version 19 include:

        - Associating property lists with regions of text in a
          buffer.
        - Multiple font, color, and pixmaps defined by those
          properties.
        - Different visibility conditions for the regions, and for
          the various windows showing one buffer.
        - Incremental syntax analysis for various programming
          languages.
        - Hooks to be run if point or mouse moves outside a certain
          range.
        - Source-level debugging for Emacs Lisp.
        - Incrementally saving undo history in a file, so that
          recover-file also reinstalls buffer's undo history.
        - Static menu bars, and better pop-up menus.
        - A more sophisticated emacsclient/server model, which
          would provide network transparent Emacs widget
          functionality.


Regards,

Rob Wargaski


Robert E. Wargaski Jr.			 This is stupid. -- Vila
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