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Re: Updating the homepage
From: |
Daniel Brockman |
Subject: |
Re: Updating the homepage |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:35:21 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Romain Francoise <address@hidden> 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| - The original Emacs macro system has been replaced by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 <address@hidden>
- Re: Updating the homepage, (continued)
- Re: Updating the homepage, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/04
- Re: Updating the homepage, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/04
- Re: Updating the homepage, Stefan Monnier, 2007/03/04
- Re: Updating the homepage, David Kastrup, 2007/03/05
- Re: Updating the homepage, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/05
- Re: Updating the homepage, JD Smith, 2007/03/05
- Re: Updating the homepage, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/06
- Re: Updating the homepage, martin rudalics, 2007/03/06
- Re: Updating the homepage, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/06
- Re: Updating the homepage, David Hansen, 2007/03/06
- Re: Updating the homepage,
Daniel Brockman <=
- Re: Updating the homepage, Nick Roberts, 2007/03/06
- Re: Updating the homepage, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/25
- Re: Updating the homepage, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/03/09
- Re: Updating the homepage, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/25
- mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse (was: Updating the homepage), Johan Bockgård, 2007/03/16
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse (was: Updating the homepage), Richard Stallman, 2007/03/18
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse, Chong Yidong, 2007/03/18
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse, Johan Bockgård, 2007/03/18
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse, Nick Roberts, 2007/03/18
- Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link with t-mouse, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/19