From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3998 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Paul D. Smith" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: September Gnus 0.13 is released Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 10:27:55 EST Message-ID: <9511161527.AA07093@lemming.engeast> References: <9511152213.AA01558@amber.umsl.edu> <199511161439.PAA21954@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> Reply-To: psmith@BayNetworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144808 28210 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: robert@steffi.accessone.com, ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA29388 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:42:19 -0800 Original-Received: from lobster.wellfleet.com (lobster.wellfleet.com [192.32.253.3]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 16:29:34 +0100 Original-Received: from lemming.engeast (lemming.wellfleet.com) by lobster.wellfleet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07492; Thu, 16 Nov 95 10:26:53 EST Original-Received: by lemming.engeast (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07093; Thu, 16 Nov 95 10:27:55 EST Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: <199511161439.PAA21954@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3998 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3998 %% Regarding Re: September Gnus 0.13 is released; %% Per Abrahamsen 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith Network Management Development Senior Software Engineer Bay Networks, Inc. -----------------------------------------------==- "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions--Bay Networks takes no responsibility for them.