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From: r...@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs 18 released
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Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 16:50:43 EST
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Emacs 18.41 is now released. It is no longer considered
a beta test version, and the Free Software Foundation will
presently mail out the version 18 tapes that people have ordered.
The GNU Emacs General Public Licensed has been slightly changed
to clarify the fact that distribution fees are allowed and a
few other things. It is not a substantive change.
There are diffs from 18.40; they are 200k. I expect that compressed
and split distributions will be made soon by various users. I urge
you to get 18.41 fresh, not with diffs, because that will eliminate
any remaining mismatches caused by lossage in the diffmaking process.
Such lossage occurred at least once, in the file buffer.c in 18.39 (or
was it 18.40), and it is always possible it happened at other times.
I will be out of town for a month, but MLY will provide some
maintenance for serious lossages.
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From: r...@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs and NeWS
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Date: 14 Apr 88 02:32:11 GMT
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For several years I have been writing software for the specific purpose
of discouraging the use and development of proprietary software. I am
working on a complete system of which GNU Emacs is just a part--a mature
and mostly stable part.
When I was first offered an interface for Suntools, I did not want to
use it. Installing it and maintaining it would take time, which would
slow down the completion of the GNU system. (Even when someone else
finds a bug and suggests a fix, I normally will not install it without
checking it over, since often the proposed fix is not the cleanest one.
This takes time.)
And the main effect of my doing this work would be to harm my own
cause: people would find it more convenient to use Suntools and would
have less reason to switch to X.
I consider it wrong to try to sabotage Suntools to encourage use of X.
Here, however, the question is whether I am obligated to spend my time
ameliorating Suntools. I do not think so: this is not a worthy cause.
However, since my objection to the Suntools interface was based on the
work it would require, I did not feel I should refuse to include it if
I could truly do so without any work. It happened that peck@sun was
willing to do all the work. So we agreed that any editing needed in
certain files of Suntools support would be done by him or not done at
all. I do not pay attention to bugs reports that seem related to
Suntools; either he fixes them or they are ignored. Each of the files
has a notice to this effect.
When I heard that there was an interface between Emacs and News, I
decided to treat it like the Suntools interface, and install it in the
next major version of Emacs if I could do so with little work and if
someone else was willing to take direct charge of maintenance. The
changes must not include many conditionals in the files that I
maintain. I don't yet know whether these conditions will be met, but
in any case nothing can be done before version 19.
Some people who dislike my decision are calling it a "restriction".
This is inaccurate.
I receive many suggested additions to Emacs, and I do not use them
all. When I reject an extension, whether for political reasons,
technical reasons, or simply taste in design, this means I personally
will not work with it. This does not mean anyone else is restricted
from doing so. I don't have the power to restrict anyone else in this
fashion.
Some people have gone so far as to compare me to a software hoarder.
This must be a misunderstanding, since what software hoarders attempt
to do is forbid *everyone else* from changing or redistributing
software. The GNU copyleft specifically says that I cannot do such a
thing. Anyone else can maintain and distribute a different version of
Emacs if they think it is better, for some purposes, than the one I
distribute.
While I don't have the right to control what software other people
distribute, or what improvements they make, I do have the right to
choose my own charitable goals for my unpaid work. This is the kind
of choice I have made in regard to NEWS and Suntools.
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From: r...@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Who can test Emacs on Xenix?
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Date: 27 Apr 88 22:06:14 GMT
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I'm looking for someone who can ftp a pre-release 18.51 version of GNU
Emacs, test it on Xenix, and solve any problems it may have.
I hope this can take place within the next day or two, so that I can
put in any fixes before I release 18.51.
If you can do this, please send me mail.
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From: r...@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: 18.51 available
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Date: 7 May 88 03:45:15 GMT
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GNU Emacs version 18.51 is now on prep.ai.mit.edu in
/u/emacs/edist.tar-18.51.Z. Compressed diffs from 18.50 are
in diff-18.50-18.51.Z and are around 470k. (Most of that is
a few new Lisp files and the Termcap manual.)
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From: r...@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Emacs 18.52 available
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Date: 1 Sep 88 20:05:25 GMT
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Emacs 18.52 is now available on prep.ai.mit.edu in
/u/emacs/edist.tar-18.52.Z. This file is around 4 meg.
Compressed differences from 18.51 are in /u/emacs/diff-18.51-18.52.Z.
They are 542000 bytes.
This is the last release of Emacs I intend to make before version 19.
The first test releases of version 19 will probably be in 6 to 9
months. Version 19 already has support for multiple X windows,
per-buffer mouse commands, scroll bars, and European character sets.
I don't know what other new features it will have.
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From: r...@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: 18.53 available
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Date: 24 Feb 89 15:53:30 GMT
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Emacs version 18.53 is now available on prep.ai.mit.edu
in /u/emacs/edist.tar-18.53.Z. Compressed diffs from 18.52
are only 38k.
All the changes in this release are simple, local bug fixes.
In addition, the files of the XMenu package, which used to be part of
X windows, are included in the Emacs distribution in the subdirectory
oldXMenu. If you install these, you can use Emacs menus even with
current versions of X11.
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From: r...@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Emacs 18.55 released
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Date: 23 Aug 89 05:05:37 GMT
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GNU Emacs 18.55 is now available for anonymous ftp from
/u/emacs/emacs-18.55.tar.Z on prep.ai.mit.edu.
Compressed diffs in /u/emacs/emacs.diff-18.54-18.55.Z are 104K.
The changes are all bug fixes.
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