ANNOUNCE: XEmacs 20.3
Stig Bjorlykke
We have uploaded the RPM packages, compiled for Intel and SPARC, and
the src.rpm for XEmacs 20.3 to ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/Incoming for
consideration for movement to the contrib:
xemacs-20.3-1.src.rpm
xemacs-20.3-1.i386.rpm
xemacs-el-20.3-1.i386.rpm
xemacs-extras-20.3-1.i386.rpm
xemacs-info-20.3-1.i386.rpm
xemacs-static-20.3-1.i386.rpm
xemacs-20.3-1.sparc.rpm
xemacs-el-20.3-1.sparc.rpm
xemacs-extras-20.3-1.sparc.rpm
xemacs-info-20.3-1.sparc.rpm
xemacs-static-20.3-1.sparc.rpm
The Intel binaries are build by Stig Bjørlykke <st...@tihlde.hist.no>
and the SPARC binaries are build by Frederic Poncin <f...@info.ucl.ac.be>.
This version is not compiled with MULE. We will try to make a MULE
package available soon.
Announcing XEmacs 20.3
XEmacs 20.3 is now available. This is a version of Emacs derived
from Emacs version 19 from the Free Software Foundation.
This is a major upgrade from 20.2, containing many bugfixes and
enhancements. If you are using XEmacs 20.0 or XEmacs 20.2 in any
flavor (including off of the Sun CD) you should consider upgrading
to 20.3. XEmacs 20.3 should be at least as stable as 19.16.
The new features include additional support for Mule (Multi-language
extensions to Emacs), many more customizations, multiple frames on
TTY-s, support for multiple info directories, an enhanced gnuclient,
improvements to regexp matching, increased MIME support, and many,
many synches with GNU Emacs 20.
The XEmacs/Mule support has been only seriously tested in a Japanese
locale, and no doubt many problems still remain. The support for
ISO-Latin-1 and Japanese is fairly strong. MULE support comes at a
price -- about a 30% slowdown from 19.16. We're making progress on
improving performance and XEmacs 20.3 compiled without Mule (which is
the default in this release) is definitely faster than XEmacs 19.16.
You can also get XEmacs via anonymous FTP from FTP.XEMACS.ORG.
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-20.3/
A complete list of features and improvements (NEWS), the complete list
of mirror sites, the current FAQ, and several other XEmacs related
items can be found at the XEmacs World Wide Web page:
$ rpm -qip xemacs-20.3-1.src.rpm
Name : xemacs Distribution: (none)
Version : 20.3 Vendor: (none)
Release : 1 Build Date: Sat Nov 29 18:21:42 1997
Install date: (not installed) Build Host: colargol.tihlde.hist.no
Group : Applications/Editors/Emacs Source RPM: (none)
Size : 13562151
Packager : Stig Bjørlykke <st...@tihlde.hist.no>
URL : http://www.xemacs.org/
Summary : The XEmacs editor
Description :
XEmacs is a version of Emacs, compatible with and containing many
improvements over GNU Emacs, written by Richard Stallman of the
Free Software Foundation. It was originally based on an early release
of GNU Emacs Version 19, and has tracked subsequent releases of GNU
Emacs as they have become available.
This XEmacs distribution has been splitted in some rpm :
- xemacs-20.3 : the main part
- xemacs-el-20.3 : elisp sources (optional)
- xemacs-info-20.3 : info files (optional)
- xemacs-static-20.3 : statically linked xemacs (optional)
- xemacs-extras-20.3 : files in conflict with emacs
(Install xemacs-extras if you do not have emacs installed.)
There is a newsgroup for discussing XEmacs:
comp.emacs.xemacs: For reporting all bugs in XEmacs, including bugs
in the compilation and installation procedures.
Also for random questions and conversation about
using XEmacs.
Enjoy :)
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Stig Bjørlykke
Red Hat Linux User
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