lnz@rainbow-warrior.UUCP (Leonard Zubkoff) (09/11/87)
Note: We've had recent mailer changes, so if you cannot reply based on the header of this message, try "edsel!lnz@labrea.stanford.edu". There is a new version of the GNU EMACS GPR Support available on PREP.AI.MIT.EDU as files /u/lnz/apollo-emacs.tar and /u/lnz/apollo-emacs.tar.Z. This release should be loaded on top of the standard GNU EMACS 18.48 distribution. It can be compiled for either DOMAIN SR9.6 or SR9.5; the default is SR9.6 (edit m-apollo.h to activate the SR9.5 changes). There are several improvements with this release: o The GPR support now provides separate "character" and "mouse" cursors. This makes the mouse button support for moving the point much more useful. o Display should be faster on color nodes than with the earlier versions. o The choice of META key is configurable through the select-APOLLO-meta-key command. o GNU EMACS can either use UNIX file modes or DOMAIN ACLs to control the access rights to files it writes. By default, UNIX modes are used just as when EMACS runs on other UNIX systems. The command select-APOLLO-protection-style can be used to disable the use of UNIX modes, in which case EMACS will not use the chmod system call, and so files will be written using the default ACL for the directory in which they are created. o GNU EMACS can now copy files preserving the AEGIS type of the file. If you set the variable backup-by-copying-when-mismatch to T, backup files will then have the same type as the corresponding original file. For further information, see the file APOLLO in the release. By the way, if anyone else has tried to compile the standard GNU EMACS distribution with the new DOMAIN SR9.6 C compiler version 4.80, there is a problem with compiling the standard dired.c, but only if the compile command is issued from MAKE. I've reported this to APOLLO; the version of dired.c included in apollo-emacs.tar fixes this in addition to other changes.