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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 698-710) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 216) - Update from CVS Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-196

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* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:

** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
a window doesn't select it.

** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,

** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.

** Add function to redraw the tool bar.

** Modify allout.el to use overlays, like outline.el.

** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.

** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
  with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
  recording which file the latest definition came from.

** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.

* Important features:

** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at

  packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.

** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
but which can also be used as a modifier).

** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
   for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.

** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
   Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
   Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
   e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [[e-mail] has a patch
   for this for inclusion after 22.1].

   See thread
   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>

* Internal changes

** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distiction
   since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.

** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
   More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
   or just an extension of buff-menu.el.

** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
   Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
   a derived mode of sendmail.el.  Or arrange for messages.el to be split
   into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
   we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.

** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
   GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
   that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
   this.]

90813:e6fdae9180d4

prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
to the FSF.

* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:

** Fix compilation when Xaw3d libraries are present but libxaw is not.
In new X11 versions, xaw3dg-dev does not depend on libxaw-dev, so the
latter need not be installed.  As a result, all the source files that
look for include files in X11/Xaw should look in X11/Xaw3d if we are
using Xaw3d.

** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.

** Avoid using "iff" in doc strings.

** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
a window doesn't select it.

** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,

** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.

** Add function to redraw the tool bar.

** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.

** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
  with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
  recording which file the latest definition came from.

** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.

** Improve configure's treatment of NON_GNU_CPP on Solaris.
(patch available for after Emacs 22)

** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html

** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html

* Important features:

** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at

  packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.

** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
but which can also be used as a modifier).

** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
   Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
   Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
   e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [[e-mail] has a patch
   for this for inclusion after 22.1].

   See thread
   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>

* Internal changes

** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
   since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.

** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
   More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
   or just an extension of buff-menu.el.

** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
   Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
   a derived mode of sendmail.el.  Or arrange for messages.el to be split
   into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
   we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
 
** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
   GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
   that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
   this.]