@setchapternewpage odd
@c This is used in many places
-@set VER 22.1
+@set VER 23.0.60
@c This file is maintained by Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@gnu.org>.
@c Feel free to install changes without prior permission (but I'd
systems.
@item
-The native MS-Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X builds include full support
+The native MS-Windows, and Mac OS X builds include full support
for images, toolbar, and tooltips.
@item
In Emacs 21.1 and later, colors and faces are supported in non-windowed mode,
i.e.@: on Unix and GNU/Linux text-only terminals and consoles, and when
-invoked as @samp{emacs -nw} on X, MS-Windows, and Mac. (Colors and faces were
+invoked as @samp{emacs -nw} on X, and MS-Windows. (Colors and faces were
supported in the MS-DOS port since Emacs 19.29.) Emacs automatically
detects color support at startup and uses it if available. If you think
that your terminal supports colors, but Emacs won't use them, check the
If you're really desperate for the @code{.} command in @code{vi} that
redoes the last insertion/deletion, use VIPER, a @code{vi} emulation
mode which comes with Emacs, and which appears to support it.
-(@xref{VIPER}.)
@node Valid X resources, Evaluating Emacs Lisp code, Repeating commands, Common requests
@section What are the valid X resource settings (i.e., stuff in .Xdefaults)?
@cindex Apple computers, Emacs for
@cindex Macintosh, Emacs for
-Beginning with version 21.1, the Macintosh is supported in the official
-Emacs distribution; see the files @file{mac/README} and
-@file{mac/INSTALL} in the Emacs distribution for build instructions.
-
Beginning with version 22.1, Emacs supports Mac OS X natively.
@node Emacs for VMS and DECwindows, Modes for various languages, Emacs for Apple computers, Finding Emacs and related packages
@menu
* VM::
-* Supercite::
-* Calc::
-* VIPER::
* AUCTeX::
* BBDB::
* Ispell::
* Patch::
@end menu
-@node VM, Supercite, Major packages and programs, Major packages and programs
+@node VM, AUCTeX, Major packages and programs, Major packages and programs
@section VM (View Mail) --- another mail reader within Emacs, with MIME support
@cindex VM
@cindex Alternative mail software
@table @b
-@item Author
-@email{kyle_jones@@wonderworks.com, Kyle Jones}
+@item Maintainer
+@email{hack@@robf.de, Robert Widhopf-Fenk}
@item Latest version
-7.19
+8.0
-@item Distribution
-@uref{ftp://ftp.wonderworks.com/pub/vm/vm.tar.gz}
+@item Web site
+@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/}
@item Informational newsgroup
@uref{news:gnu.emacs.vm.info}@*
@item Bug reports newsgroup
@uref{news:gnu.emacs.vm.bug}@*
-Or send reports to @email{bug-vm@@wonderworks.com}
-@end table
-
-VM 7 works well with Emacs 21 and Emacs 22. Older versions of VM
-suitable for use with older versions of Emacs are available from
-@uref{ftp://ftp.wonderworks.com/pub/vm/, the same FTP site}.
-
-
-@node Supercite, Calc, VM, Major packages and programs
-@section Supercite --- mail and news citation package within Emacs
-@cindex Supercite
-@cindex Superyank
-@cindex Mail and news citations
-@cindex News and mail citations
-@cindex Citations in mail and news
-
-@table @b
-
-@item Author
-@email{barry@@python.org, Barry Warsaw}
-
-@item Latest version
-3.54 (comes bundled with Emacs since version 20)
-
-@item Distribution
-@uref{http://www.python.org/emacs/supercite.tar.gz}
-
-@item Mailing list
-Subscription requests to @email{supercite-request@@python.org}@*
-Submissions @email{supercite@@python.org}
-
@end table
-Superyank is an old version of Supercite.
-
-@node Calc, VIPER, Supercite, Major packages and programs
-@section Calc --- poor man's Mathematica within Emacs
-@cindex Programmable calculator
-@cindex Calc
-@cindex Mathematical package
-
-@table @b
+VM was originally written by @uref{http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/,Kyle Jones}.
+@uref{ftp://ftp.wonderworks.com/pub/vm/,Older versions} of VM remain
+available.
-@item Author
-@email{daveg@@csvax.cs.caltech.edu, Dave Gillespie}
-
-@item Latest version
-2.1 (part of Emacs since version 22.1)
-
-@item Distribution
-No separate distribution outside of Emacs. Older versions
-are available at @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/calc/}.
-
-@end table
-
-Note that Calc 2.02f needs patching to work with Emacs 21 and later.
-
-@cindex @code{calculator}, a package
-Emacs 21.1 and later comes with a package called @file{calculator.el}.
-It doesn't support all the mathematical wizardry offered by Calc, such
-as matrices, special functions, and statistics, but is more than
-adequate as a replacement for @code{xcalc} and similar programs.
-
-@node VIPER, AUCTeX, Calc, Major packages and programs
-@section VIPER --- @code{vi} emulation for Emacs
-@cindex @code{vi} emulation
-@cindex VIPER
-@cindex Emulation of @code{vi}
-
-Since Emacs 19.29, the preferred @code{vi} emulation in Emacs is VIPER
-(@kbd{M-x viper-mode @key{RET}}), which comes with Emacs. It extends
-and supersedes VIP (including VIP 4.3) and provides @code{vi} emulation
-at several levels, from one that closely follows @code{vi} to one that
-departs from @code{vi} in several significant ways.
-
-For Emacs 19.28 and earlier, the following version of VIP is generally
-better than the one distributed with Emacs:
-
-@table @b
-@item Author
-@email{sane@@cs.uiuc.edu, Aamod Sane}
-
-@item Latest version
-4.3
-
-@item Distribution
-@uref{ftp://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/pub/gnu/elisp-archive/modes/vip-mode.tar.Z}
-
-@end table
-@node AUCTeX, BBDB, VIPER, Major packages and programs
+@node AUCTeX, BBDB, VM, Major packages and programs
@section AUC@TeX{} --- enhanced @TeX{} modes with debugging facilities
@cindex Mode for @TeX{}
@cindex @TeX{} mode
functionality, and debugging. Be also sure to check out
@ref{Introduction, RefTeX, Introduction, reftex, Ref@TeX{} User Manual}.
Current versions of AUC@TeX{} include the
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex,preview-latex}
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html,preview-latex}
package for WYSIWYG previews of various LaTeX constructs in the Emacs
source buffer.
@email{dak@@gnu.org, David Kastrup}
@item Latest version
-11.84
+11.85
@item Distribution
@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/}
@table @b
@item Maintainer
-@email{waider@@waider.ie, Ronan Waide}
+@email{hack@@robf.de, Robert Widhopf-Fenk}
@item Latest version
-2.34
+2.35
@item Distribution
@uref{http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/}
@code{mail-yank-prefix}. For VM, set @code{vm-included-text-prefix}.
For mh-e, set @code{mh-ins-buf-prefix}.
-For fancier control of citations, use Supercite. @xref{Supercite}.
+For fancier control of citations, use Supercite (part of Emacs).
To prevent Emacs from including various headers of the replied-to
message, set the value of @code{mail-yank-ignored-headers} to an
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