[H-GEN] FSF Emacs 21.0.104 Sneak Peek

[Christopher Biggs]

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Thanks for the MLP.  Appreciated.

Ben Fowler <fowlerb at optushome.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net
and spake thusly:
> 
> It appears from a cursory glance that GNU Emacs has received a massive 
> usability overhaul.  I discovered many features, including mousewheel 
> support (mouse-wheel-mode 1),

Mouse wheel works fine for me in emacs 20.

>  tooltips, nice icons, saner defaults with
> fonts and colours, and major enhancements to font-lock, GNUS and other
> things.  Another interesting thing I thought was cute, is that 
> various mouseclicks on areas on the modeline do various neat things.

Just so long as I can turn all that *off* again.   I use GNU Emacs
*because* it's less bloated and gaudy than XEmacs.   

--Chris "Grumpy old unix bigot" Biggs

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