mit-scheme.git
28 years agoAdded X-graphics documentation about DRAW-CIRCLE and FILL-CIRCLE.
Stephen Adams [Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:51:05 +0000 (18:51 +0000)]
Added X-graphics documentation about DRAW-CIRCLE and FILL-CIRCLE.

28 years agoAdded X-GRAPHICS/DRAW-ARC, X-GRAPHICS/DRAW-CIRCLE and X-GRAPHICS/FILL-CIRCLE.
Stephen Adams [Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:03:45 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
Added X-GRAPHICS/DRAW-ARC, X-GRAPHICS/DRAW-CIRCLE and X-GRAPHICS/FILL-CIRCLE.

28 years agoAdded X-GRAPHICS-DRAW-ARC for drawing filled and unfilled arcs.
Stephen Adams [Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:52:28 +0000 (17:52 +0000)]
Added X-GRAPHICS-DRAW-ARC for drawing filled and unfilled arcs.

28 years agoRewrite `poll' support to make it conditionalized more cleanly.
Chris Hanson [Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:13:29 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Rewrite `poll' support to make it conditionalized more cleanly.

28 years agoUse POLLNORM in preference to POLLIN since the former is supported
Chris Hanson [Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:03:25 +0000 (21:03 +0000)]
Use POLLNORM in preference to POLLIN since the former is supported
more widely.

28 years agoFix minor bug in handling of cursor during SCREEN-FORCE-UPDATE.
Chris Hanson [Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:01:15 +0000 (21:01 +0000)]
Fix minor bug in handling of cursor during SCREEN-FORCE-UPDATE.

28 years agoIf the `poll' system call is available, use it in preference to
Chris Hanson [Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:28:17 +0000 (23:28 +0000)]
If the `poll' system call is available, use it in preference to
`select'.  This is needed for HP-UX 10.10 because `select' is broken
in that release.

28 years agoAdd conditionalization to detect versions of HP-UX that supply the
Chris Hanson [Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:27:18 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
Add conditionalization to detect versions of HP-UX that supply the
`poll' system call.

28 years agoAdd conditionalization to detect HP-UX version 10.10.
Chris Hanson [Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:25:27 +0000 (23:25 +0000)]
Add conditionalization to detect HP-UX version 10.10.

28 years agoFix bug that caused RMAIL to signal an error when converting poorly
Chris Hanson [Sun, 16 Jun 1996 05:18:24 +0000 (05:18 +0000)]
Fix bug that caused RMAIL to signal an error when converting poorly
formed messages to RMAIL format.

28 years agoImplement "engineering" display mode.
Chris Hanson [Tue, 11 Jun 1996 04:29:58 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
Implement "engineering" display mode.

28 years agoIncluded "load.scm" in syntax sequence.
Stephen Adams [Fri, 7 Jun 1996 04:34:16 +0000 (04:34 +0000)]
Included "load.scm" in syntax sequence.
Added copyright notice.

28 years agoAny identifier containing `protect' is no longer exported.
Stephen Adams [Fri, 7 Jun 1996 04:29:09 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
Any identifier containing `protect' is no longer exported.

28 years agoExtend FLONUM-UNPARSER-CUTOFF to allow specification of the display
Chris Hanson [Thu, 6 Jun 1996 21:07:57 +0000 (21:07 +0000)]
Extend FLONUM-UNPARSER-CUTOFF to allow specification of the display
mode, e.g. SCIENTIFIC or ENGINEERING.

28 years agoFix bug: don't enqueue a process in the process-input-queue if it is
Chris Hanson [Fri, 24 May 1996 07:33:41 +0000 (07:33 +0000)]
Fix bug: don't enqueue a process in the process-input-queue if it is
already in the queue.  Otherwise, it can easily get entered very many
times: if there is input waiting, and the editor is busy, the process
will be queued as often as the select code can run.

28 years agoChange mechanism used to open files and sockets, so that interrupts
Chris Hanson [Sat, 18 May 1996 06:16:11 +0000 (06:16 +0000)]
Change mechanism used to open files and sockets, so that interrupts
are enabled during the open.  This is necessary, because any
network-based operation could potentially hang for long periods of
time, and it's desirable for the user to be able to interrupt out of
the operation.

This change requires microcode version 11.154 (or the corresponding
version 13).

In addition to this change, the low-level channel code was changed to
eliminate the now-obsolete gc-daemon interlocking code.

28 years agoFix code so that interrupts delivered during socket calls will
Chris Hanson [Sat, 18 May 1996 06:10:25 +0000 (06:10 +0000)]
Fix code so that interrupts delivered during socket calls will
deallocated sockets where necessary.

28 years agoAdd code to allow delivery of interrupts during socket-opening system
Chris Hanson [Sat, 18 May 1996 06:09:25 +0000 (06:09 +0000)]
Add code to allow delivery of interrupts during socket-opening system
calls.

28 years agoImplement new primitives to support new method for opening files and
Chris Hanson [Sat, 18 May 1996 06:08:14 +0000 (06:08 +0000)]
Implement new primitives to support new method for opening files and
sockets.  This code is required for runtime version 14.170.

28 years agoAllow keyboard interrupts while opening sockets. This is only a
Chris Hanson [Fri, 17 May 1996 17:49:45 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
Allow keyboard interrupts while opening sockets.  This is only a
partial solution: there is a small window in which an interrupt can
arrive, leaving the descriptor open but forgotten.

28 years agoImplement new procedure, like WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS, except that it
Chris Hanson [Fri, 17 May 1996 17:47:59 +0000 (17:47 +0000)]
Implement new procedure, like WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS, except that it
allows keyboard interrupts.

28 years agoAllow interrupt delivery during socket system calls.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 17 May 1996 17:26:03 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
Allow interrupt delivery during socket system calls.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 17 May 1996 17:10:18 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoFix thinko.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 20:05:50 +0000 (20:05 +0000)]
Fix thinko.

28 years agoFix bug: GROUP-INSERT-FILE! was depending on the fact that
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 19:10:52 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
Fix bug: GROUP-INSERT-FILE! was depending on the fact that
INPUT-BUFFER/READ-SUBSTRING did not return until the argument buffer
was full -- which is no longer true.

28 years agoEliminate random heuristic buffer-size modulation from previous
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 18:48:40 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
Eliminate random heuristic buffer-size modulation from previous
change.  It turns out that the behavior that necessitated this
heuristic was a bug in the runtime system.

28 years agoEliminate loop in INPUT-BUFFER/READ-SUBSTRING. When line-translation
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 18:47:19 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Eliminate loop in INPUT-BUFFER/READ-SUBSTRING.  When line-translation
was in effect, this loop caused this procedure to read input until the
buffer was filled.  However, the procedure is supposed to return as
soon as some input is available.

28 years agoFix thinko: point was not being moved appropriately when marking
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 06:10:56 +0000 (06:10 +0000)]
Fix thinko: point was not being moved appropriately when marking
headers backwards.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 05:51:26 +0000 (05:51 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoForce the reader on-line when the user requests re-reading all of the
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 04:40:17 +0000 (04:40 +0000)]
Force the reader on-line when the user requests re-reading all of the
headers in a group.  Save the database files after refreshing all of
the groups.  Fix typo.

28 years agoIn SCREEN-MOVE-CURSOR, forget current position of cursor in order to
Chris Hanson [Wed, 15 May 1996 00:04:34 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
In SCREEN-MOVE-CURSOR, forget current position of cursor in order to
force it to be moved at the end of the update.  This works around bugs
in the terminal implementations: sometimes the cursor is moved as a
side-effect of some other operation.  It's easier to fix this here
than to modify each implementation to guarantee that the cursor is not
moved.

28 years agoIn SCREEN-FORCE-UPDATE, forget the cursor position, so that it will be
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 23:46:07 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
In SCREEN-FORCE-UPDATE, forget the cursor position, so that it will be
updated during the redisplay.

28 years agoYet more work on synchronous-subprocess I/O. The simple loop using
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 23:35:22 +0000 (23:35 +0000)]
Yet more work on synchronous-subprocess I/O.  The simple loop using
non-blocking I/O has atrocious performance characteristics, at least
under OS/2.  It's now been replaced by something that uses blocking
I/O where possible, and modulates the buffer length to provide better
feedback for incremental output.

28 years agoGuarantee that the presentation space for a window is set to its
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 05:42:46 +0000 (05:42 +0000)]
Guarantee that the presentation space for a window is set to its
normal colors at the end of a redisplay.  Previously, it was often
left in the highlight colors, which would cause areas of the window to
be painted in the foreground color when they were exposed.

28 years agoMove the cursor only when its position is changed. Previously, the
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 05:41:08 +0000 (05:41 +0000)]
Move the cursor only when its position is changed.  Previously, the
cursor was being moved many times in a row to the same location.  This
was caused by repeated screen updates being run as a result of
processing input events.  Input events can be quite common even when
there is no typing going on, as a result of window-system operations,
mouse tracking, etc.

28 years agoChange DISPLAY-STYLE in order to orthogonalize the effects that it can
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 01:55:25 +0000 (01:55 +0000)]
Change DISPLAY-STYLE in order to orthogonalize the effects that it can
have.  New design allows each of the different style effects to be
selected separately.

28 years agoChange DISPLAY-STYLE in order to orthogonalize the effects that it can
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 01:44:28 +0000 (01:44 +0000)]
Change DISPLAY-STYLE in order to orthogonalize the effects that it can
have.  New design allows each of the different style effects to be
selected separately.

28 years agoChange definition of UPDATE-INFERIOR! in order to centralize the
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 01:24:18 +0000 (01:24 +0000)]
Change definition of UPDATE-INFERIOR! in order to centralize the
testing of DISPLAY-STYLE when deciding whether or not to update the
inferior.

28 years agoWhen doing redisplay in a synchronous subprocess, update once before
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 01:07:46 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
When doing redisplay in a synchronous subprocess, update once before
starting I/O loop.

28 years agoDefine new operations: CLOSE-INPUT, CLOSE-OUTPUT, INPUT-OPEN?,
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 00:53:56 +0000 (00:53 +0000)]
Define new operations: CLOSE-INPUT, CLOSE-OUTPUT, INPUT-OPEN?,
OUTPUT-OPEN?, and WRITE-CHARS.

28 years agoRewrite SYNCHRONOUS-PROCESS-WAIT to reduce the amount of redisplay
Chris Hanson [Tue, 14 May 1996 00:13:04 +0000 (00:13 +0000)]
Rewrite SYNCHRONOUS-PROCESS-WAIT to reduce the amount of redisplay
activity, and to eliminate direct references to channels.

28 years agoDefine new operations: CLOSE-INPUT, CLOSE-OUTPUT, INPUT-OPEN?,
Chris Hanson [Mon, 13 May 1996 23:59:34 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
Define new operations: CLOSE-INPUT, CLOSE-OUTPUT, INPUT-OPEN?,
OUTPUT-OPEN?, and WRITE-CHARS.

28 years agoFix bug: reading output from a subprocess would occasionally signal an
Chris Hanson [Mon, 13 May 1996 05:01:11 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
Fix bug: reading output from a subprocess would occasionally signal an
error because the subprocess output channel was closed by Scheme when
it detected that the subprocess had closed the other end of the pipe.
However, the "output-copier" loop continued to operate assuming that
the channel was open.

28 years agoChange popclient code to use new indicator to allow redisplay during
Chris Hanson [Sun, 12 May 1996 07:14:21 +0000 (07:14 +0000)]
Change popclient code to use new indicator to allow redisplay during
synchronous-subprocess execution.

28 years agoFix bug in code that writes data to subprocess -- channel was being
Chris Hanson [Sun, 12 May 1996 07:13:03 +0000 (07:13 +0000)]
Fix bug in code that writes data to subprocess -- channel was being
closed before output buffer was flushed.  Also, add code to specify
whether or not redisplay is allowed during synchronous-process
execution, and default it to disallowed, because it is extremely
distracting while doing a revert-buffer in a Dired buffer.

28 years agoWrap debugger extent with CLEANUP-POP-UP-BUFFERS. This allows the
Chris Hanson [Sun, 12 May 1996 02:34:30 +0000 (02:34 +0000)]
Wrap debugger extent with CLEANUP-POP-UP-BUFFERS.  This allows the
debugger to be called at times when there are active popped-up
buffers.  Previously, quitting from the debugger in this situation
would cause the previously popped-up buffer to be hidden.

28 years agoAdd commands to read and write the .newsrc file.
Chris Hanson [Sun, 12 May 1996 02:19:20 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Add commands to read and write the .newsrc file.

28 years agoWhen doing certain extended server interactions, do redisplay
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:51:31 +0000 (08:51 +0000)]
When doing certain extended server interactions, do redisplay
periodically to show changes to the user.

28 years agoFinish changes stared with previous revision: must handle visibility
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:50:15 +0000 (08:50 +0000)]
Finish changes stared with previous revision: must handle visibility
events specially while previewing events; must also handle paint
events specially.  Handling of paint events is different from handling
of X expose events -- this seems to mean that when a window is
exposed, X sends the expose event first, but OS/2 sends something
other than the paint event first.

28 years agoPop up a buffer showing the "popclient" output so that it is visible
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:46:52 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
Pop up a buffer showing the "popclient" output so that it is visible
while "popclient" is running.  Use new popped-up buffer features to
keep it visible if an error occurs.

28 years agoUse new procedure MAYBE-KILL-POP-UP-BUFFER.
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:44:56 +0000 (08:44 +0000)]
Use new procedure MAYBE-KILL-POP-UP-BUFFER.

28 years agoImplement new procedures: MAYBE-KILL-POP-UP-BUFFER calls
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:44:28 +0000 (08:44 +0000)]
Implement new procedures: MAYBE-KILL-POP-UP-BUFFER calls
KILL-POP-UP-BUFFER if its argument is the popped-up buffer.
KEEP-POP-UP-BUFFER prevents a popped-up buffer from being killed by an
enclosing CLEANUP-POP-UP-BUFFERS.  POPPED-UP-BUFFER returns the
POPPED-UP buffer, if any.

28 years agoChange SYNCHRONOUS-PROCESS-WAIT so that it does redisplay while it's
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:41:15 +0000 (08:41 +0000)]
Change SYNCHRONOUS-PROCESS-WAIT so that it does redisplay while it's
waiting.  This allows the output from a synchronous subprocess to be
incrementally displayed as it is read.

28 years agoEliminate CALL-WITH-PROTECTED-CONTINUATION.
Chris Hanson [Sat, 11 May 1996 08:38:11 +0000 (08:38 +0000)]
Eliminate CALL-WITH-PROTECTED-CONTINUATION.

28 years agoChange initialization code to allocate a minimum of 256 file handles
Chris Hanson [Fri, 10 May 1996 18:48:03 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
Change initialization code to allocate a minimum of 256 file handles
for Scheme.  The old default of 20 is too small -- quickly eaten by a
small number of subprocesses in Edwin -- and worse, the default is not
a constant but depends on the method used to invoke Scheme.

The number of file handles can by dynamically changed using a new
primitive.  The channel table is initialized to 1024 entries, allowing
plenty of room for growth should that be desired.

28 years agoFix thinko in process-name allocation.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 10 May 1996 18:39:28 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
Fix thinko in process-name allocation.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 20:38:40 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoAdd support for sockets and GDBM under OS/2.
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 20:22:56 +0000 (20:22 +0000)]
Add support for sockets and GDBM under OS/2.

28 years agoAdd support for sockets under OS/2.
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 20:22:30 +0000 (20:22 +0000)]
Add support for sockets under OS/2.

28 years agoInitial revision
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 20:22:03 +0000 (20:22 +0000)]
Initial revision

28 years agoEliminate support for use of "tcp" subprocess in place of real socket
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 17:25:52 +0000 (17:25 +0000)]
Eliminate support for use of "tcp" subprocess in place of real socket
support.  This was used under OS/2 to work around the lack of socket
support, but did not work properly because the subprocess could not be
reliably killed.  This is now moot since OS/2 socket support has been
implemented.

28 years agoChange release version number from 7.4.3 to 7.5, since the former will
Chris Hanson [Thu, 9 May 1996 17:01:38 +0000 (17:01 +0000)]
Change release version number from 7.4.3 to 7.5, since the former will
be needed for patches to the 7.4 release, and the current sources
contain code that won't go into the 7.4 series.  Also replace the
"(alpha)" with "a" to be more succinct.

28 years agoFix bug -- inverted meaning of input vs. output for subprocess
Chris Hanson [Wed, 8 May 1996 20:57:53 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
Fix bug -- inverted meaning of input vs. output for subprocess
communications.

28 years agoFix bug in handling of top-level indentation. This bug was introduced
Chris Hanson [Wed, 8 May 1996 05:24:30 +0000 (05:24 +0000)]
Fix bug in handling of top-level indentation.  This bug was introduced
in revision 1.11.

28 years agoAnother round of changes to the News reader.
Chris Hanson [Mon, 6 May 1996 00:09:41 +0000 (00:09 +0000)]
Another round of changes to the News reader.

28 years agoMake BUFFER-POINT a little smarter.
Chris Hanson [Sun, 5 May 1996 18:58:41 +0000 (18:58 +0000)]
Make BUFFER-POINT a little smarter.

28 years agoFix bug under OS/2: when overwriting a file that has its "archived"
Chris Hanson [Sat, 4 May 1996 17:38:55 +0000 (17:38 +0000)]
Fix bug under OS/2: when overwriting a file that has its "archived"
bit cleared, the bit should be set but was not.

28 years agoFix bug: encoding times with time-zone information was not scaling the
Chris Hanson [Sat, 4 May 1996 17:30:08 +0000 (17:30 +0000)]
Fix bug: encoding times with time-zone information was not scaling the
time-zone information to seconds as expected by the microcode.

28 years agoFix handling of VISIBILITY event so that screen contents are
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 20:00:14 +0000 (20:00 +0000)]
Fix handling of VISIBILITY event so that screen contents are
immediately invalidated.  This allows subsequent redisplay events to
take proper action.

28 years agoFix bug in marking of "ignored" articles from article buffer.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 19:55:46 +0000 (19:55 +0000)]
Fix bug in marking of "ignored" articles from article buffer.

28 years agoFix think-o in INIT-FILE-SPECIFIER->PATHNAME for OS/2 and Windows.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 07:41:10 +0000 (07:41 +0000)]
Fix think-o in INIT-FILE-SPECIFIER->PATHNAME for OS/2 and Windows.

28 years agoAdd exports for "win32com".
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 07:00:45 +0000 (07:00 +0000)]
Add exports for "win32com".

28 years agoChange command names and documentation strings to use the noun "frame"
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 06:58:59 +0000 (06:58 +0000)]
Change command names and documentation strings to use the noun "frame"
rather than "screen".

28 years agoChange command names and documentation strings to use the noun "frame"
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 06:58:21 +0000 (06:58 +0000)]
Change command names and documentation strings to use the noun "frame"
rather than "screen".

28 years agoAdd code to avoid writing the title-bar string except when it changes.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 06:56:46 +0000 (06:56 +0000)]
Add code to avoid writing the title-bar string except when it changes.
Otherwise it flickers annoyingly in common circumstances.

28 years agoFix missing variable error. Improve documentation string.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 3 May 1996 06:55:22 +0000 (06:55 +0000)]
Fix missing variable error.  Improve documentation string.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:14:04 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoFixed "rtlgen/preservation-state: unknown operation" warning for
Stephen Adams [Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:41:57 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
Fixed "rtlgen/preservation-state: unknown operation" warning for
MACHINE-CONSTANTs, and prevented the preservation of CONS-NON-POINTER
expressions because they are sometimes non-objects (e.g. non-marked
vector headers).

28 years agoFix bug in open coding of SYSTEM-VECTOR-SIZE that became a problem
Chris Hanson [Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:23:45 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
Fix bug in open coding of SYSTEM-VECTOR-SIZE that became a problem
when it was enabled by the previous change.

28 years agoFix some minor bugs.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:22:49 +0000 (22:22 +0000)]
Fix some minor bugs.

28 years agoUpdate copyright.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:44:26 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
Update copyright.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:35:06 +0000 (18:35 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoMany changes subsequent to release.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:37:20 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Many changes subsequent to release.

28 years agoFix typo.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:34:24 +0000 (04:34 +0000)]
Fix typo.

28 years agoIntegrate generic procedure mechanism into the runtime system. This
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:27:22 +0000 (04:27 +0000)]
Integrate generic procedure mechanism into the runtime system.  This
mechanism implements a generic procedure call with good performance,
but does not define an associated class structure as is common in
object-oriented programming systems.  It is, however, sufficiently
general to allow such systems to be implemented on top of it, and even
to share objects between different systems if the systems cooperate
slightly.

Much of the change here is to reorganize the cold-load sequence so
that it is possible to bootstrap the runtime system.

28 years agoAdd support for "gdbm" runtime load option.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:52:10 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Add support for "gdbm" runtime load option.

28 years agoCollect the several implementations of protection lists and merge them
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:48:50 +0000 (03:48 +0000)]
Collect the several implementations of protection lists and merge them
together in a single place.

28 years agoImplement new "init-file" procedures for maintaining a database of
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:39:47 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
Implement new "init-file" procedures for maintaining a database of
files in the user's home directory.  This is used by the Edwin News
reader, which needs a convenient place to save its database files.

28 years agoChange OS/FILE-END-OF-LINE-TRANSLATION to use new FILE-SYSTEM-TYPE
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:29:54 +0000 (03:29 +0000)]
Change OS/FILE-END-OF-LINE-TRANSLATION to use new FILE-SYSTEM-TYPE
primitive to determine a more precise result.

28 years agoImplement support for time-zone information in decoded-time data
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:27:06 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
Implement support for time-zone information in decoded-time data
type.  Generalize the procedure FILE-TIME->STRING so that it generates
an RFC-822 time string (when time-zone information is available from
the microcode).

28 years agoImplement support for time-zone information in decoded-time data
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:21:30 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Implement support for time-zone information in decoded-time data
type.  Generalize the procedure FILE-TIME->STRING so that it generates
an RFC-822 time string (when time-zone information is available from
the microcode).

28 years agoMove INT:->FLONUM from "arith" to "fixart" so that it will be
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:03:16 +0000 (03:03 +0000)]
Move INT:->FLONUM from "arith" to "fixart" so that it will be
available earlier in the cold-load sequence.

28 years agoNumerous changes subsequent to release.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:56:13 +0000 (02:56 +0000)]
Numerous changes subsequent to release.

28 years agoExtensive development of News reader; too many changes to list.
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:55:18 +0000 (02:55 +0000)]
Extensive development of News reader; too many changes to list.

28 years agoChange synchronous-process code to use line translation that is
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:45:38 +0000 (02:45 +0000)]
Change synchronous-process code to use line translation that is
appropriate for the file associated with the process buffer, if any.
This is necessary to get newline translation correct for compressed
files.

28 years agoImplement new procedure FILE-TIME->LS-STRING, to generate a time
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:38:58 +0000 (02:38 +0000)]
Implement new procedure FILE-TIME->LS-STRING, to generate a time
string like that produced by the unix `ls' program.  Change Dired and
VC to use this string where appropriate.  Consequently rewrite the DOS
directory listing program to be more like that used for OS/2.

28 years agoChange GROUP-INSERT-FILE! to accept an additional argument, which
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:30:14 +0000 (02:30 +0000)]
Change GROUP-INSERT-FILE! to accept an additional argument, which
specifies the newline translation to be used for the insertion.  This
allows the compressed-file reading code to specify that the
translation being used is that appropriate for the file being
expanded.  Formerly, the wrong translation was sometimes used because
the compressed file is expanded into a temporary file, which can
reside on a file system with a different translation, and the
translation appropriate for the temporary was used.

28 years agoChange OS/BUFFER-BACKUP-PATHNAME to accept another argument, the
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:19:57 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Change OS/BUFFER-BACKUP-PATHNAME to accept another argument, the
buffer being backed up.  This is necessary to ensure that the backup
control variables are properly referenced; formerly local bindings of
these variables would not be referenced correctly.

28 years agoGeneralize lisp indentation code to support a new method for
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:05:35 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Generalize lisp indentation code to support a new method for
specifying how a lisp form is to be indented.  The variable
lisp-indent-regexps is an alist of regexp-method pairs, which is
searched linearly for the first regexp that matches the keyword.

This allows the "def" and "with-" rules to be implemented as special
cases of this more general mechanism.

28 years agoChange Info to use a list of info directories, rather than a single
Chris Hanson [Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:57:40 +0000 (01:57 +0000)]
Change Info to use a list of info directories, rather than a single
directory.  This is now compatible with Emacs 19.