Q7.0.5: What’s new in SXEmacs 22.1.3?

• OpenSSL updates, improvements, and fixes – Freundt.
• FFI updates, and fixes – Zajcev.

  FFI now defaults to "on" if libffi can be found at configure time. It you don’t want this, use: ‘–disable-ffi’.

  FTP downloads with ‘curl:download’ is working properly now. And with HTTP transfers you can transfer just the HTTP header for a file if you wish.

• Extent/glyph fixes – Sidwell, Kuehl.
• 32 mouse buttons supported – Youngs.

  (global-set-key [(button32)] ’some-function) is valid in SXEmacs.

• Modeline tweaks – Ferreira.

  Move line/column number indicators to left side (aka XE 21.5)

• M-x uptime – Youngs.

  Every good OS has an uptime util, SXEmacs is no exception. Reports uptime in various formats.

• ia64 build fixes – Lesjak.
• C-h n will no longer find NEWS files from packages – Youngs.
• List of package mirrors updated – Aichner, Skyttä.
• Bootstrappable PUI – Youngs.

  SXEmacs no longer needs to have _any_ packages pre-installed before PUI can be used. See (Info-goto-node "(sxemacs)Bootstrapping PUI").

• Bignums, and a whole swag of sexy new number goodness – Freundt.

  Bignums, bigfloats, and ratios that you may know from XEmacs 21.5 are now in SXEmacs. That and a whole lot more...

  Features provided when all of the library demands are met:

    (featurep 'bigz) and
    (featurep 'bignum)       <=> if MPZ from GMP or BSD MP is present
  
    (featurep 'bigq) and
    (featurep 'ratio)        <=> if MPQ from GMP is present
  
    (featurep 'bigf) and
    (featurep 'bigfloat)     <=> if MPF from GMP is present
  
    (featurep 'bigfr)        <=> if MPFR is present
  
    (featurep 'bigc)         <=> if MPC is present
  
    (featurep 'number-types) <=> if one of the above features is
    provided
  

  For complete details see: (Info-goto-node "(lispref)Enhanced Number Types")

• Raw strings – Kuehl.

  SXEmacs tries to relieve backslashitis by implementing raw strings. You’ll imediately notice the benefit of raw strings when use them for those hairy regexps. Consider the regular expression (from font-latex.el)...

    "\\(?:^\\|[^\\]\\)\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*\\(\\\\[@A-Za-z]+\\)"
  
  As a raw string it could be written as...
  
    #r"\(?:^\|[^\]\)\(?:\)*\(\\[@A-Za-z]+\)"
  

  Most of the SXEmacs core lisp code has been converted over to using raw strings whereever appropriate.

• Improved font-locking in a TTY – Ferreira.

  To illustrate this...

    $ sxemacs -nw -vanilla
  
  ...and look at the modeline.  Now open a .c file and turn on
  font-lock...
  
    C-x C-f /path/to/file.c RET
    M-x font-lock-mode RET
  

• Compiler fixes – Zajcev.
• SXEmacs can no longer be built with a C++ compiler – Youngs.

  To build SXEmacs you will need a C compiler at least the equivalent of GCC 2.95.3. Building with a C++ compiler is no longer supported.

• Autoconf fixes, updates – Freundt, Kuehl, Youngs.

  All autoconf options now have a help string (for ./configure –help) and the default setting for each option is noted.

• PostgreSQL auto-detection improved – Youngs.

  If pg_config is in your $PATH, SXEmacs will add PostgreSQL support at configure/build time.

• Documentation (Texinfo) updates – Freundt, Youngs.

  The SXEmacs manual is now called "sxemacs" instead of "xemacs". C-h C-i sxemacs RET to read it.

  Most of the Texinfo docs now have been updated to say "SXEmacs" whereever appropriate instead of "XEmacs".

• GTK (version 1.2) build fixes – Youngs.