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editors/xemacs-current{,-nox11}: Update to 21.5.35

Changes in XEmacs 21.5.35 ?kohlrabi?

Major Features, Bugfixes, and Backward Incompatible Changes

-- New: Ben Wing's unicode-internal support -- Ben Wing
-- Improve: Reduce needless byte-char conversion, C code -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add support for OpenSSL bignum implementation -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: #'format and friends now much more featured -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Removed unexec, incremental garbage collector, support for \ 
non-system malloc(), support for Win 95/98/ME -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Convert assert on menubar syntax errors to log warning and skip the menu \ 
-- Jerry James

User-Visible Bug Fixes and Improvements

-- Fix: Remove a reference to 'efs-ftp-path from #'file-remote-p -- Mike Sperber
-- Improve: Allow :visible in menu specs; document -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Allow a string the LHS of a syntax-alist entry in \ 
`font-lock-defaults' to be a string (sync to GNU Emacs) -- Mike Sperber
-- Improve: Make #'byte-compile-if suppress spurious warnings from `(if (fboundp \ 
...' or `(if (boundp ...' constructs (port of Dave Love patch to Emacs) -- Mike \ 
Sperber
-- Improve: Silence warnings about throws out of #'post-command-hook' -- Mike Sperber
-- New: Support bignums with MPIR -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Help buffer behaviour synced with GNU -- Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Better behaviour with deletion of text and saved window points.

Build Infrastructure and Source Tree

-- Fix: Change several Mule-specific constructs to generic ones in core Lisp \ 
(paragraphs.el); fixes --without-mule build from tarballs -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Fix Windows portability issues -- Vin Shelton, Jerry James, Mats Lidell
-- Fix: Reverse sense of #if for insert-data-in-exec build -- Jerry James
-- Fix: Silence syntax warnings -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Update autoconf helpers to latest upstream version -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Use more recent makeinfo(1) if available -- Jerry James
-- Improve: GTK 3.X support when available -- Jeff Sparkes
-- New: TLS support -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Disable ASLR on any system where that is necessary for XEmacs binary \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe, Mike Sperber, Marcus Crestani
-- Improve: Use pkg-info if available to determine linked libraries for ncurses \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe, Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Run autoupdate on configure.ac, heed its advice -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Fix broken linker -R flag detection, pkg-config problems, -f* flags \ 
inappropriate when linking -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: Fix PostgreSQL header detection -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Fix: --with-infopath handling, configure.ac -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Fix: Canna version detection -- Jaakko Salomaa

Documentation

-- Improve: Bignum documentation -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Port texi files to Texinfo 5, fix style -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Document #'digit-char-p, #'digit-char, #'parse-integer -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add notes about pixel_to_glyph_transation and related code -- Mike Kupfer
-- Improve: Document char-code-limit -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Describe the arbitrary-base syntax for rationals -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Details of extent properties vs string properties -- Stephen Turnbull
-- New: Document extent support in #'format, document #'format-into -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move generalised support for duplicable extents to Old Future work \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document the new flags and modifiers, #'format -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document shadowing of lambda list arguments, #'symbol-macrolet. Document \ 
the new SHADOW argument for each symbol macro specified. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document #'string-match-p, #'looking-at-p. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document that (shift a) is supported as keystroke syntax -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove duplicated info, widget.texi. -- Aidan Kehoe, FKtPp, Steven \ 
Mitchell
-- New: Update documentation of #'generate-new-buffer-name -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Face property documentation -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Improve: Remove mention of non-system malloc() implementations -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Document algorithmic complexity consideration with #'marker-position \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Re-encode texi as UTF-8 when appropriate -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document named non-shy groups, limits on interval qualifiers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document workarounds to avoid compile-time evaluation of (require ...) \ 
forms -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document MARKERP argument to #'extent-{start,end}-position -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document underlying implementation of the match data, associated \ 
performance and correctness considerations -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document search-error-on-bad-match-data -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document redisplay no longer entered recursively -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document changes to unique stream identifiers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document changes to profiling implementation -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document removal of support for Windows 95/98/ME systems -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove details of the implementation of the incremental garbage \ 
collector; document experience with it and its removal -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Update the documentation of the dumping process -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Adjust documentation of the garbage collector to put KKCC in the \ 
forefront. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Documentation of no need for POSIX-compatible #'looking-at-p, \ 
#'string-match-p -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document the OpenSSL bignum driver -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- New: Document the ?z integer length modifier -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move display table extensions to Old Future work -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Document the -no-configured-paths command line flag -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Fix: Build error, navigation problems, internals.texi -- Henry Thompson
-- Improve: Deprecate #'string-equal -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Buggy ASCII art, internals.texi -- Aidan Kehoe, Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Remove deprecated @refill from manual -- Aidan Kehoe

Lisp API

-- Fix: Add optional ID-FORMAT to #'file-attributes (GNU compatibility); add \ 
tests -- Mats Lidell, Vin Shelton
-- Fix: Make #'apply-partially more intelligent about constructing compiled \ 
functions when making closures; add tests -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add optional WHEN and DOCSTRING arguments to \ 
#'define-obsolete-function-alias, #'define-compatible-function-alias, \ 
#'define-obsolete-variable-alias, #'define-compatible-variable-alias (GNU \ 
compatibility) -- Stephen Turnbull, Mike Sperber, Jeff Sparkes
-- New: Add #'font-lock-extend-region-functions' from GNU Emacs, use it -- Mike \ 
Sperber
-- New: Add #'write-sequence, API from Common Lisp. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Allow optional `docstring' argument to #'define-function, as in GNU \ 
Emacs. -- Mike Sperber
-- Fix: #'next-command-event: Only snooze displaying keystrokes if PROMPT is nil \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'message and friends: Preserve extent information in prompts. -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe.
-- Fix: #'x-store-cutbuffer-internal: No longer crash when passed a non-string \ 
STRING argument. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'encode-time: Correct the sign used when calculating the time zone \ 
strong. -- Marcus Crestani.
-- New: #'open-network-stream-internal, #'tls-negotiate: Add support for TLS to \ 
streams.
-- New: Expose #'parse-integer to Lisp -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'event-matches-key-specifier-p: Check keysym and modifiers when on a \ 
TTY. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Add support for GNU's help-event-list. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: no-character-typed error, used in #'self-insert-command -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: char-code-limit available -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'accept-process-output: Restore the current buffer even on non-local \ 
exit -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'getenv: Escape quotation marks correctly when interactively showing a \ 
variable's value -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Add #'clear-string, API From GNU. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'string-to-number: Canonicalise ratios in this function -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'logand, #'logior, #'rem, #'lsh: Make errors less misleading -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: #'line-number: Implement using the C implementation of \ 
src/line-number.c, improving performance. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'load-internal: Error correctly with a zero-length file name, rather \ 
than giving a bus error. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'print and friends: Avoid crashes when STREAM can cause string data \ 
relocation. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: string property lists: Avoid silent corruption of a fixnum stored in a \ 
string's property list. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'reduce: avoid a crash with a cons sequence, :from-end nil, and a \ 
zero-length range. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move #'concatenate to C, improve the implementation and algorthmic \ 
complexity of #'concat. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Provide Common Lisp's #'make-string-output-stream, exposing the existing \ 
C resizing_buffer lstream type, and preserving extent information for this. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Do not accept non-fixnum number arguments with %c, #'format. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use our integer to string conversion code within #'format, \ 
#'number-to-string.
-- Improve: Preserve extent information within #'format.
-- New: Add digit-fixnum-ascii, a version of digit-fixnum-map supporting only \ 
the ASCII digits; use this internally. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Don't echo mouse wheel events. -- Aidan Kehoe.
-- Improve: Add support for pad characters, h, l, hh, ll modifiers, unsigned \ 
modifiers, #'format. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Provide #'format-into, writing the output into a stream. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'substitute-command-keys, preserve extent information -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid problems in #'mapcon when FUNCTION returns nil. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Implement obarray as a proper Lisp hash table. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'normalize-menu-text, avoid corruption of result. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Sync the #'run-hook family of functions from GNU. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: #'run-hook-wrapped, API imported from GNU. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Accept (shift a) as equivalent to (A) when parsing keysyms. -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe
-- Fix: Error with (aref STRING (length STRING)) -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Add #'with-hash-table-iterator, API from Common Lisp. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Increase default gc-cons-threshold to 32 megabytes from 2 megabytes. \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Sync API for #'generate-new-buffer-name. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Standardise the behaviour of #'% within XEmacs, don't rely on quirks \ 
of underlying C implementation. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Standardise on Lisp characters as the keysym objects across all \ 
supported platforms. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Return two values in #'user-name-completion, no need for \ 
#'user-name-completion-1. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Support named non-shy ("explicitly numbered") groups in \ 
regular expressions. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Take up to #xFFFF repetitions when using \{N,M\} regexp repetition \ 
syntax -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Extend display table handling to take arbitrary format strings. -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe
-- Improve: Restrict MINWIDTH, PRECISION field ranges in format strings to \ 
#xFFFF. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add a -no-configured-paths option, most useful when building -- \ 
Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: Deprecate #'string-equal, move it to obsolete.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add a Latin-script Azeri language environment -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid errors with misc-user events and isearch-pre-command-hook -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Warn about non-string, non-integer args to #'gensym -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Give better backtraces on error at startup -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Deal better with unparseable Fc font names. -- Stephen Turnbull
-- New: Sync mode-require-final-newline from GNU -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Add #'write-string, #'write-line -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Blinking of parentheses when demonstrating matching parentheses -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Respect function-key-map in #'read-char, #'read-char-exclusive, error if \ 
no character typed. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove metadata marking #'keymapp as side-effect free. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: #'synthesize-unicode-codepoint, bind it to (control shift u) as \ 
specified by ISO 14755. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Do not insert timestamps in .elc comments, making builds \ 
reproducible. -- Jerry James.
-- New: Transport layer security (TLS) support -- Jerry James
-- Improve: `noerror' optional argument to #'line-move -- Michael Sperber.
-- Improve: Handling of case sensitivity in interactive regular expression \ 
search -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove unused code for Mule TTY support. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: #'max-char function for GNU compatibility. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid using the regexp support for very simple searches. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid over-eager deletion of frams, gnuclient -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Less garbage with the message stack. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Give clearer errors with #'check-type and non-setf'able PLACEs -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: #'logcount, function from Common Lisp. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Mark #'integer-length, #'logcount as side-effect free. Avoid \ 
allocating memory with #'integer-length -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Respect load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files, call \ 
#'substitute-in-file-name #'load. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Sync functionality from GNU, mwheel.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid use of #'vassoc in core code, move it to packages -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Warn if interactive spec encountered where arglist expected, \ 
bytecomp.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Abbrev tables are now vectors, not hash tables. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add compatibility implementation of traditional emacs obarray, now \ 
we use hash tables. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: help.el, add support for detecting the current Lisp function if we are \ 
in the context of a C file. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Shadow symbol macros when the corresponding symbols are encountered in \ 
lambda argument lists -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Rename #'font-menu-change-face to #'font-menu-maybe-change-face, fix \ 
a bug in it. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: FORM does not need to be a cons, #'assert -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Merge GNU's :height custom-face-attribute. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: auto-save-unescape-name, correct the hex parsing -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Replace calls to #'string-match with calls to #'string-match-p if \ 
appropriate. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove keyboard-type, never used. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Case tables generated from UnicodeData.txt -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Make compose.el available on non-X11 platforms. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Allow a numeric offset as the APPEND argument to #'write-region. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Make #'key-or-mouse-event-p, #'timeout-or-eval-event-p, \ 
#'char-or-event-p available. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Import coding-system-history. Adjust #'read-coding-system to use it and \ 
to adjust PROMPT based on default-coding-system. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Import pcase.el from GNU. -- Aidan Kehoe

Internal API and Implementation

-- Fix: Canonicalize some ratios -- Jerry James
-- Fix: Change integer arithmetic to fixnums in check_valid_xbm_inline; adjust \ 
test to changed error -- Jerry James
-- Fix: Initialization of bignums from long longs -- Jerry James
-- Fix: Replace AC_FUNC_FSEEKO with HAVE_FSEEKO in config.h.in -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Add mp-specific allocation functions -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Prepare for large file support -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Reimplement #'process-synchronize-point as a label in \ 
#'call-process-internal -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Support for statically linked modules -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Use make_fixnum instead of make_integer where size is known to fit \ 
in many places -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Lazy conversion of markers when comparing values in the same buffer, \ 
giving performance improvements e.g. with large VM buffers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use skip_ascii() in the no-conversion coding system, speeding up \ 
writes of large buffers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Pass character count information to the buffer insertion code from \ 
the no-conversion and Unicode coding systems, speeding up reads of large files \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Increase the C buffer size used in #'copy-file, \ 
#'insert-file-contents-internal, speeding up these operations -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Add error handling to the coding conversion code -- Jerry James
-- Improve: Quiet compiler warnings with clang, g++, Visual Studio -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe, Vin Shelton, Jerry James.
-- Improve: Be more careful dealing with C's isupper() when calculating the \ 
inverse table for Vdigit_fixnum_map -- Aidan Kehoe, Vin Shelton.
-- Improve: Work exclusively in byte positions, extent.c -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Only provide our max_align_t if the current compiler does not. -- \ 
Jerry James
-- Improve: Speed of get_char_table () on builds without optimization -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: print_symbol(), read_atom(): Speed these up significantly, add \ 
support for non-ASCII digits -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid problems with GMP and non-finite C doubles. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: #'truncate: Avoid bugs with bignums and double_to_integer() -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: encode_unicode_char (): Use U+FFFD unconditionally when we have no \ 
information on the Unicode mapping of a character. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: x_IO_error_handler(): Check for a real error in this, avoiding a crash \ 
on OS X. -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Improve: #'save-current-buffer: Docstring changes. -- Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Regular expression searching within relocating Lisp buffers. -- Aidan Kehoe.
-- Improve: Create less garbage when reading symbols, lread.c -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: No need for NARGS argument to write_fmt_string_lisp() -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Give the compiler a chance to do strlen at compile time, \ 
write_ascstring () -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Differentiate between char->byte and byte->char conversion and \ 
between external->internal, internal->external conversion when profiling. \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Change: Rename emacs_v?sprintf_malloc* functions to emacs_v?asprintf, \ 
analagous to their usual Unix equivalents. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Make general functions available to convert between C integers of a \ 
specific type and Lisp integers, including bignums. Use this. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move various simple, non-loop hotspot, functions from data.c to \ 
subr.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Our integer to string code was buggy with LONG_MIN, fix that. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Merge the unicode-internal branch, providing an ISO10646-compatibile \ 
internal format to Mule builds -- Ben Wing
-- Improve: Write to the normal stdio object, stderr_out(), stdout_out(). -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Drop extensive needless Ibyte -> Ichar conversion, redisplay. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe.
-- Improve: Use make_uninit_vector(), make_uninit_string() in Freverse -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Implement #'looking-at-p, #'string-match-p in C. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Circularity checking with unread-command-events. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Circularity and well-formedness checking for external lists, Lisp \ 
primitives. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Respect SIGNALP in PRIVATE_UNVERIFIED_LIST_LOOP_7(), avoiding problems \ 
with circular lists. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Correct regexp interval handling code. -- Aidan Kehoe, Stephen Turnbull
-- Fix: Error within read1() if a #@INTEGER docstring comment has an \ 
unreasonably large integer. -- Aidan Kehoe, Hao Sun.
-- Fix: Error when passed values that would overflow, Fmake_vector(), \ 
Fmake_string(), Fmake_bit_vector(). -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid stack overflow with recursive specifiers, print_specifier (). -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe, Raymond Toy
-- Fix: Avoid tying up XEmacs with error messages when specifier instantiator \ 
fails. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Take a size_t argument, xemacs_c_alloca, check for overflow. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove gmalloc.c, which is unmaintained, always use system malloc. \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove use of Eistring malloc buffers, write directly to Lisp \ 
streams instead. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use the Lisp hash table infrastructure for the X GC cache, improve \ 
algorithm. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Fix some leaks in the GTK code. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid clobbering documentation for compiled function aliases -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use an explicit weak list object for the syntax table, specifier, \ 
and weak hash table, avoiding duplicating implementation. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move the weak box implementation to Lisp. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Only convert markers to integers when needed to compare them. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Reduce unnecessary byte-char conversion costs with markers. -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe
-- Improve: Adjust the line numbering code to track buffer byte positions, which \ 
is cheaper. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Reduce needless byte-char conversion in redisplay -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Save window points as zero-length extents, not C integers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Pay attention to wraparound in buffer modification ticks. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Rename byte_marker_position to marker_byte_position for GNU \ 
compatibility. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Correct type description of dynarr lengths -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Don't choke on an ill-formed or circular Vprocess_environment -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Make qxeGetWindowLongPtr and related functions available to the NT code. \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Rename DONT_EXTERN_INLINE_HEADER_FUNCTIONS to \ 
FORCE_INLINE_FUNCTION_DEFINITION. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Make write_external_fmt_string_va () availab, allowing a coding system \ 
to be specified for string arguments. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use the existing Lisp list infrastructure with struct expose_ignore. \ 
-- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use the existing Lisp list infrastructure with timeouts. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Prevent update_syntax_cache(), Fextent_at() from accessing buffer \ 
positions outside the accessible region -- Alan Mackenzie
-- Fix: Make Fscan_sexps() respect syntax table properties, terminating quotes \ 
-- Alan Mackenzie
-- New: Flag GB_ALLOW_NIL to indicate to return point for buffer positions, \ 
get_buffer_pos_{char,byte} -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: set_marker_byte_position_restricted(), reduce need to convert to \ 
character positions. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use Bytebpos values in the line-start cache -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Make vertical scrollbars function in terms of lines, not buffer \ 
positions, with small buffers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Provide a GET_STRSIGNAL() macro, on the model of GET_STRERROR() -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe
-- Improve: Get XEmacs building and runnning on 64 bit Cygwin. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: get_buffer_pos_both (), reduce needless byte->char conversion with \ 
(goto-char MARKER) -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Mark generated modeline strings as such, respect this when \ 
signalling that extents have changed. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Move match subexpression information to being implemented as extents, \ 
giving better warnings and more consistent behaviour with #'replace-match. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove needless byte-char conversion from search.c -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Rename string ascii_begin field to ascii_end -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move window_end_pos[] to being an array of markers. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid recursive entry to redisplay, Fwindow_end(). -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Never return an invalid buffer position, #'event-point, \ 
#'event-modeline-position -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove redisplay_text_width_string(), equivalent to \ 
redisplay_window_text_width_string(). -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Drop caching of GCs under GTK. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: No need for a hash table mapping marshaller types to functions, \ 
ui-gtk.c -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use weak lists for the window point and saved_window_start caches -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use a weak list for the USID to process mapping -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move the main profiling hash table to being a Lisp hash table -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Implement the mswindows_read_link () cache as a normal Lisp hash \ 
table. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove hash.c, hash.h, no longer used. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Correct a bug in ALIST_LOOP_4() -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove support for running as a non-Unicode program under Win32. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove support for the incremental garbage collector, improving \ 
stability, speed, memory usage, and mantainability. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove support for unexec, improving maintainability. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove support for the old mark algorithm, KKCC is stable and \ 
performant -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove support for systems without job control, mkdir or rmdir, \ 
imprve maintainability. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Don't modify the compiled pattern in re_match_2_internal, avoiding \ 
re-entrancy problems. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Represent internal register numbers with two bytes rather than one \ 
in compiled regular expressions. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Move implementation of long-deprecated #'following-char, \ 
#'preceding-char to Lisp. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Provide access to the OpenSSL bignum implementation, which doesn't \ 
have the reliability concerns of GMP -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: Better error handling with OpenSSL, TLS -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Fix: Use the z integer length modifier in C code when printing EMACS_INT -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Implement total_data_usage() in terms of BSD libkvm. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Provide formatted printing that doesn't error to the C code. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Never return a negative value to Lisp when hashing. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Load the Unicode conversion tables as Lisp structures. -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: Avoid a blinking TTY cursor -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Fix: Avoid infinite loop in next_previous_single_property_change () -- Jaakko \ 
Salomaa.
-- Fix: Avoid calling Fextent_object () on non-live extents, #'delete-window, \ 
#'set-window-buffer -- Aidan Kehoe, Henry Thompson
-- Improve: Have the syntax cache, indentation code work in byte positions. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid needles byte-char conversion, process.c -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid crashes with invalid characters in generated modeline strings and \ 
error-checking builds. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid the AMD64 red zone confusing find_stack_direction (), alloca.c -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Changes to bring XEmacs closer to building and running on 64-bit \ 
Visual Studio. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Reduce memory allocation, use of the regexp engine, gnuserv.el -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Print the stderr of make-docfile to the terminal instead of silently \ 
discarding it. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Handle vectors better in backquote.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use #'string-match-p, #'looking-at-p if match data not used -- Aidan \ 
Kehoe
-- Improve: Implement #'eval-when in the byte compiler. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Remove alist.el from core code. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Minimise calls to #'marker-position in the core Lisp code -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Use #'apply-partially to create closures with lambdas and lexical \ 
variables. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Save any existing non-default mode-popup-menu correctly, \ 
#'easy-menu-remove -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Generate digit.el from UnicodeData.txt -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Deal with byte offsets generated by makeinfo(1), info.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid calls to #'following-char, #'preceding-char in core code -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Avoid lock files when generating finder-inf.el, make parallel builds \ 
more likely to work -- Aidan Kehoe, Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Clean up startup path debugging code -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- Improve: Abstract out the list of things to be saved and restored in \ 
#'search-push-state -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Avoid silent wrapping of fill-column, #'do-auto-fill, \ 
#'fill-region-as-paragraph. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Fix: Don't error with anonymous functions, #'display-call-tree. -- Aidan Kehoe

Testing and Debugging

-- New: Add tests for #'file-attributes -- Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Use print_circle within debug_print() -- Jerry James.
-- New: Test fixnum_to_string with LONG_MIN -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Process tests -- Stephen Turnbull
-- New: Test require-final-newline, mode-require-final-newline -- Mats Lidell
-- Improve: Only test fontconfig if the font-mgr feature is available -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'write-sequence, #'write-string, #'write-line -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test propagation of extent information -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'parse-integer, #'digit-char, #'digit-char-p -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'substitute -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Test read and print handling of symbols that look like numbers. -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test character with no Unicode mapping represented as REPLACEMENT \ 
CHARACTER, UTF-8 -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'integer-length, #'logcount -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Superficial tests #'load, #'load-internal -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'equalp compiler macro -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check Lisp printer handles relocation of string data OK -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test for insufficient GCPRO in sublis () -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check bug with #'reduce fixed -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'make-string-output-stream, #'get-output-stream-string -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'format and friends -- Aidan Kehoe, Uwe Bonnes, Aneurin Price, \ 
Mike McCormack
-- New: Check no crash with #'decode-time if localtime() returns nil -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check bug in #'mapcon fixed -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check no crash on large number of symbols in an obarray -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'normalize-menu-text, #'compare-menu-text -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'lexical-let, #'lexical-let* -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'string-match-p, #'looking-at-p -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check bug in regexps with backreferences fixed. -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'run-hooks and friends -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'safe-length -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check special operators GCPRO correctly -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check bugs fixed with intervals in regexps -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'auto-save-escape-name, #'auto-save-unescape-name -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test restrictions on ZONE argument to #'encode-time -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test limits on the size of array types -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test the SHADOW argument to #'symbol-macrolet -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check (int-char most-negative-fixnum) gives nil -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check (user-login-name 4294967296) no longer gives "root" -- \ 
Aidan Kehoe-- New: Test simple predicates recently moved to subr.el from data.c; \ 
test #'ignore -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Update checking for search algorithm used to take uppercase Unicode \ 
sharp s into account -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check ?\x00 not accepted as a converter character, #'format -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'max, #'min, #'< and friends with fixnums and markers -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check #'read doesn't get confused with a marker STREAM and a multibyte \ 
buffer.  -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'car, #'cdr -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test case-insensitive packages (obarrays) -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test named non-shy groups -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test limits of regexp ranges -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check for a bug fixed in #'save-window-start -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check error appropriately with (format "%c" ...), non \ 
char-or-char-int-p arguments -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Tests for #'replace-regexp-in-string -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Test #'replace-match when stored match data has its start and end \ 
positions reversed -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Naming of bug-hash-table, reproduce-crashes.el -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test bug fixed with display of line numbers in modeline -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check that #'zerop errors with character or marker arguments -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'split-char, #'make-char -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test overflow detected with integer parsing code, Lisp reader -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Check more than 255 shy groups supported -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test the OpenSSL bignum driver -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- New: Test :error-behavior keyword argument to #'format-into -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test #'apply-partial with lambdas with &rest arguments -- Jaakko Salomaa
-- New: Test get_string_{pos,range}_byte () -- Aidan Kehoe
-- Improve: Call #'test-chars even on unicode-internal builds -- Aidan Kehoe
-- New: Test for a bug in #'byte-optimize-zerop -- Aidan Kehoe