[h-e-w] Emacs 22.1 released

[Jason Rumney]

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.

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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.