Re: September Gnus 0.13 is released

["Paul D. Smith" <psmith@BayNetworks.com>]

%% Regarding Re: September Gnus 0.13 is released;
%% Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

    RN> the 19.30 stuff that good? What exactly does it allow you to do?

    pa> I haven't noticed any significant new features, beside the new
    pa> Gnus.  See the appended NEWS file.

There are some very nice new features, but nothing astounding: remember
that 19.29 introduced support for large buffers (up to 133M) which some
people have been asking for for many years, and if you're at 19.28 you
have to consider the features of 19.29 as well in deciding to upgrade.
19.29 also introduced Motif support, but it's pretty yucky and I don't
know anyone who prefers it to Athena.

The main advantage from my perspective (working with the 19.30 pretests)
is that 19.30 is _fast_!  Although I installed 19.29 here, I didn't feel
comfortable making it the default bin/emacs (which is still 19.28)
because it was too slow, esp. when you had more than 2-3 frames open.

But 19.30 seems much faster, faster even than I remember 19.28 being.
Part of it no doubt has to do with font-lock improvements; font-locking
a buffer is very quick now.  Also the paren-matching code is much
faster: in 19.29 turning it on meant that you could type ahead by
as much as 2-3 lines if you can type fast enough without pausing--very
annoying!  I can rarely typeahead on 19.30: the only time being when I
type through an autosave or something.  So far, I _like_ it! :)

FWIW.

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