Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 21.2.?

[Paul Whitfield]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> "Daniel Hegyi" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > I read that minor releases would come out more frequently than they
> > used to.
>
> I don't know where you read that. Minor releases are released as
> needed, as they always have been. 20.2 was released within days of
> 20.1, because a major bug was found that warranted another
> release, 20.7 was released shortly after 20.6 and 20.5 for the same
> reason.  21.2 has not been released yet because there has been no
> single bug reported for 21.1 that screams "release a bugfix now!",
> just a trickle of smaller bugs.
>
>
>
> > I'm "still" using 20.7 and so far I haven't found compelling reasons
> > to upgrade to 21.1. What new features are planned for the next release?

Compleling reasons:

* Nice little arrows in the "fringe" when text wraps off the screen
* recentf is built in
* Customise works much better
* mode line is nicer
* mini-buffer re-sizing
* sensible default bindings for <home> and <end>, ok its not 
compelling.. but hey.

> >
>
> None. 21.2 is a bugfix release, currently in pretesting (this was
> planned as a bugfix release, since it was expected that a major update
> of the display engine would have some bugs. I think more bugs were
> expected than were actually found, otherwise it would have been
> released earlier).
>
> 21.3 will probably include new features, including tooltip support on
> Windows, but there is currently no plan of when that will be released,
> and if a show-stopper is found after 21.2 is released, there is always
> the possibility of another bugfix release being made, pushing new
> features out to 21.4 or beyond.
>
> If you want features above stability, there is always CVS.

I was wondering if there is any way to discover what the
time table is for use pour stranded windoze foltks to get
all the latest features that are missing from emacsnt

* Image display
* Tool bar
* horizontal scroll bars

I want them ;-)

Also is there any plan for a "tabbed" display a-la Xemacs

I want that too... but I just can't/won't change to Xemacs


Paul




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