Jason Rumney
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:35:52 -0700
Windows binaries of GNU Emacs 22.1 are available on the GNU ftp server at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ and its mirrors (see link below). MD5 check-sums are the following: ea545e30b9737718ffa27b470c6404d6 emacs-22.1-bin-i386.zip 78d75520517305e9022fed4223a53f85 emacs-22.1-barebin-i386.zip The "bin" distribution contains everything you need to run Emacs on Windows, including all documentation and Lisp source. The "barebin" contains the Windows executables for use with the source distribution. It also contains the executable needed for redumping emacs which is not included in the "bin" distribution. Emacs 22.1 contains support for images on Windows. For most image formats, this requires external libraries. The following image formats are supported: PBM/PGM/PPM: Supported internally by Emacs. XPM: Requires libXPM version 4. Known sources are GIMP and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ JPEG: Requires the jpeg library version 6b or later. Known sources are GTK and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ PNG: Requires libPNG version 1.2 or later. Known sources are GTK and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ TIFF: Requires libTIFF 3.0 or later. Known sources are GTK and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ GIF: Requires libungif or giflib version 4.1 or later. A known source is http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ Note: A version of emacs-22.1-bin-i386.zip was uploaded on 2 June which was missing the site-lisp directory. If you downloaded this version, you can create the site-lisp directory manually and create the file subdirs.el with the following contents: ;; -*- no-byte-compile: t -*- (if (fboundp 'normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path) (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)) The general Emacs 22.1 release announcement follows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU Emacs 22.1 has been released. It is available on the GNU ftp sites at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ and its mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). The MD5 check-sum is the following: 6949df37caec2d7a2e0eee3f1b422726 emacs-22.1.tar.gz Please send any bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org. You can use the function M-x report-emacs-bug to do this. Here are some new features of Emacs 22. See etc/NEWS for a complete list. - Support for the GTK+ graphical toolkit - Drag-and-drop support on X. - Support for GNU/Linux systems on S390 and x86-64 machines, and for Mac OS X, and for Windows using Cygwin. - Full support for images, toolbar, and tooltips on MS-Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X builds. - Font Lock mode, Auto Compression mode, File Name Shadow Mode, and mouse wheel support are enabled by default. - Double the maximum size of buffers, up to 256M on 32-bit machines. - Links can be followed with `mouse-1', in addition to `mouse-2'. - Customizable window fringes. - Many user interface tweaks, including the highlighting of the selected window's mode line and a distinct minibuffer prompt face. - Abbrev definitions are read automatically at startup. - The Kmacro package for managing keyboard macros. - Full graphical user interface to GDB. - New modes and packages, including Calc, Grep, TRAMP, URL, IDO, CUA, ERC, rcirc, Table, Image-Dired, SES, Ruler, Org, PGG, Flymake, Password, Printing, Reveal, wdired, t-mouse, longlines, savehist, Conf mode, Python mode, DNS mode, etc. - Leim, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, and the Emacs Lisp Intro included. You can help the FSF as well as yourself by ordering the Emacs Manual or the Emacs Lisp Manual from the Free Software Foundation. New editions for Emacs 22 are being printed soon. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html. Executables of gzip, and information about using gzip, can be found at the URL http://www.gzip.org.