+2003-06-23 Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
+
+ * configure.in: Check for sys/_mbstate_t.h. Test
+ XRegisterIMInstantiateCallback prototype.
+ (AH_BOTTOM): Define DO_BLOCK_INPUT, my_strftime.
+
2003-06-06 Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
* configure.in: Check for locale.h.
* Installation Changes in Emacs 21.4
** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
-when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.0 or newer.
+when you run configure. This requires Gtk+ 2.0 or newer. This port
+provides a way to display multilingual text in menus (with some caveats).
---
** Emacs can now be built without sound support.
+++
** `provide' and `featurep' now accept an optional second argument
to test/provide subfeatures. Also `provide' now checks `after-load-alist'
-and run any code associated with the provided feature.
+and runs any code associated with the provided feature.
** The variable `compilation-parse-errors-filename-function' can
be used to transform filenames found in compilation output.
If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
-it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted packages, please be
+it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
to the FSF.
in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific
locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary
- text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx]
+ text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] [The gtk
+ port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
+ Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
be only full columns/lines.
holidays, quoting characters?,...
* Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
- the Boehm collector.) [fx is working on this.]
+ the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
+ this.]
* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.