XEmacs Internals Manual: Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Authorship of XEmacs
3. A History of Emacs
- 3.1 Through Version 18
- 3.2 Epoch
- 3.3 Lucid Emacs
- 3.4 GNU Emacs 19
- 3.5 GNU Emacs 20
- 3.6 XEmacs
4. The XEmacs Split
5. XEmacs from the Outside
6. The Lisp Language
7. XEmacs from the Perspective of Building
8. Build-Time Dependencies
9. The Modules of XEmacs
- 9.1 A Summary of the Various XEmacs Modules
- 9.2 Modules for Building XEmacs
- 9.3 Low-Level Modules
- 9.4 Basic Lisp Modules
- 9.5 Modules for Standard Editing Operations
- 9.6 Modules for Interfacing with the File System
- 9.7 Modules for Other Aspects of the Lisp Interpreter and Object System
- 9.8 Modules for Interfacing with the Operating System
10. The Build Configuration System
- 10.1 The version.sh Script
- 10.2 Adding Configurable Features
- 10.3 The configure Script
- 10.4 The Makefile Precursors
11. Rules When Writing New C Code
- 11.1 Introduction to Writing C Code
- 11.2 Writing New Modules
- 11.3 Working with Lisp Objects
- 11.4 Writing Lisp Primitives
- 11.5 Writing Good Comments
- 11.6 Adding Global Lisp Variables
- 11.7 Writing Macros
- 11.8 Proper Use of Unsigned Types
- 11.9 Major Textual Changes
  - 11.9.1 Great Integral Type Renaming
  - 11.9.2 Text/Char Type Renaming
- 11.10 Debugging and Testing
12. Regression Testing XEmacs
- 12.1 How to Regression-Test
- 12.2 Modules for Regression Testing
13. Mercurial Techniques
- 13.1 Preserving Existing Changes with Mercurial Queues
14. CVS Techniques
- 14.1 Creating a Branch
- 14.2 Merging a Branch into the Trunk
15. XEmacs from the Inside
16. Basic Types
17. Low-Level Allocation
- 17.1 Basic Heap Allocation
- 17.2 Stack Allocation
- 17.3 Dynamic Arrays
- 17.4 Allocation by Blocks
- 17.5 Modules for Allocation
18. The XEmacs Object System (Abstractly Speaking)
19. How Lisp Objects Are Represented in C
20. Allocation of Objects in XEmacs Lisp
- 20.1 Introduction to Allocation
- 20.2 Garbage Collection
- 20.3 GCPROing
- 20.4 Garbage Collection - Step by Step
- 20.5 Fixnums and Characters
- 20.6 Allocation from Frob Blocks
- 20.7 lrecords
- 20.8 Low-level allocation
- 20.9 Cons
- 20.10 Vector
- 20.11 Bit Vector
- 20.12 Symbol
- 20.13 Marker
- 20.14 String
- 20.15 Compiled Function
21. The Lisp Reader and Compiler
22. Evaluation; Stack Frames; Bindings
- 22.1 Evaluation
- 22.2 Dynamic Binding; The specbinding Stack; Unwind-Protects
- 22.3 Simple Special Operators
- 22.4 Catch and Throw
- 22.5 Error Trapping
23. Symbols and Variables
- 23.1 Introduction to Symbols
- 23.2 Obarrays
- 23.3 Symbol Values
24. Buffers
- 24.1 Introduction to Buffers
- 24.2 Buffer Lists
- 24.3 Markers and Extents
- 24.4 The Buffer Object
25. Text
- 25.1 The Text in a Buffer
- 25.2 Ibytes and Ichars
- 25.3 Byte-Char Position Conversion
- 25.4 Searching and Matching
26. Multilingual Support
- 26.1 Introduction to Multilingual Issues #1
- 26.2 Introduction to Multilingual Issues #2
- 26.3 Introduction to Multilingual Issues #3
- 26.4 Introduction to Multilingual Issues #4
- 26.5 Character Sets
- 26.6 Encodings
  - 26.6.1 Japanese EUC (Extended Unix Code)
  - 26.6.2 JIS7
- 26.7 Internal Mule Encodings
  - 26.7.1 Internal String Encoding
  - 26.7.2 Internal Character Encoding
- 26.8 Byte/Character Types; Buffer Positions; Other Typedefs
- 26.9 Internal Text APIs
- 26.10 Coding for Mule
- 26.11 CCL
- 26.12 Microsoft Windows-Related Multilingual Issues
- 26.13 Modules for Internationalization
- 26.14 The Great Mule Merge of March 2002
27. Consoles; Devices; Frames; Windows
- 27.1 Introduction to Consoles; Devices; Frames; Windows
- 27.2 Point
- 27.3 Window Hierarchy
- 27.4 The Window Object
- 27.5 Modules for the Basic Displayable Lisp Objects
28. Window-System Support
- 28.1 Creating a Window-System Type
29. Window and Frame Geometry
- 29.1 Intro to Window and Frame Geometry
- 29.2 The Frame
- 29.3 The Non-Client Area
- 29.4 The Client Area
- 29.5 The Paned Area
- 29.6 Text Areas, Fringes, Margins
- 29.7 The Displayable Area
- 29.8 Which Functions Use Which?
30. The Redisplay Mechanism
- 30.1 Critical Redisplay Sections
  - 30.1.1 Nasty Bugs due to Reentrancy in Redisplay Structures handling QUIT
- 30.2 Line Start Cache
- 30.3 Redisplay Piece by Piece
- 30.4 Modules for the Redisplay Mechanism
- 30.5 Modules for other Display-Related Lisp Objects
31. Extents
- 31.1 Introduction to Extents
- 31.2 Extent Ordering
- 31.3 Format of the Extent Info
- 31.4 Zero-Length Extents
- 31.5 Mathematics of Extent Ordering
- 31.6 Extent Fragments
32. Faces
33. Glyphs
- 33.1 Glyph Instantiation
- 33.2 Widget-Glyphs
- 33.3 Widget-Glyphs in the MS-Windows Environment
- 33.4 Widget-Glyphs in the X Environment
34. Specifiers
35. Menus
36. Events and the Event Loop
- 36.1 Introduction to Events
- 36.2 Main Loop
- 36.3 Specifics of the Event Gathering Mechanism
- 36.4 Specifics About the Emacs Event
- 36.5 Event Queues
- 36.6 Event Stream Callback Routines
- 36.7 Other Event Loop Functions
- 36.8 Stream Pairs
- 36.9 Converting Events
- 36.10 Dispatching Events; The Command Builder
- 36.11 Focus Handling
- 36.12 Editor-Level Control Flow Modules
37. Asynchronous Events; Quit Checking
- 37.1 Signal Handling
- 37.2 Control-G (Quit) Checking
  - 37.2.1 Reentrancy Problems due to QUIT Checking
- 37.3 Profiling
- 37.4 Asynchronous Timeouts
- 37.5 Exiting
38. Lstreams
- 38.1 Creating an Lstream
- 38.2 Lstream Types
- 38.3 Lstream Functions
- 38.4 Lstream Methods
39. Subprocesses
40. Interface to MS Windows
- 40.1 Different kinds of Windows environments
- 40.2 Windows Build Flags
- 40.3 Windows I18N Introduction
- 40.4 Modules for Interfacing with MS Windows
- 40.5 CHANGES from 21.4-windows branch (probably obsolete)
41. Interface to the X Window System
- 41.1 Lucid Widget Library
- 41.2 Modules for Interfacing with X Windows
42. Dumping
- 42.1 Dumping Justification
- 42.2 Overview
- 42.3 Data descriptions
- 42.4 Dumping phase
- 42.5 Reloading phase
- 42.6 Remaining issues
43. Future Work
- 43.1 Future Work – General Suggestions
- 43.2 Future Work – Elisp Compatibility Package
- 43.3 Future Work – Drag-n-Drop
- 43.4 Future Work – Standard Interface for Enabling Extensions
- 43.5 Future Work – Better Initialization File Scheme
- 43.6 Future Work – Keyword Parameters
- 43.7 Future Work – Property Interface Changes
- 43.8 Future Work – Toolbars
  - 43.8.1 Future Work – Easier Toolbar Customization
  - 43.8.2 Future Work – Toolbar Interface Changes
- 43.9 Future Work – Menu API Changes
- 43.10 Future Work – Removal of Misc-User Event Type
- 43.11 Future Work – Mouse Pointer
  - 43.11.1 Future Work – Abstracted Mouse Pointer Interface
  - 43.11.2 Future Work – Busy Pointer
- 43.12 Future Work – Extents
  - 43.12.1 Future Work – Everything should obey duplicable extents
- 43.13 Future Work – Version Number and Development Tree Organization
- 43.14 Future Work – Improvements to the xemacs.org Website
- 43.15 Future Work – Keybindings
  - 43.15.1 Future Work – Keybinding Schemes
  - 43.15.2 Future Work – Better Support for Windows Style Key Bindings
  - 43.15.3 Future Work – Misc Key Binding Ideas
- 43.16 Future Work – Byte Code Snippets
  - 43.16.1 Future Work – Autodetection
  - 43.16.2 Future Work – Conversion Error Detection
  - 43.16.3 Future Work – Unicode
  - 43.16.4 Future Work – BIDI Support
  - 43.16.5 Future Work – Localized Text/Messages
  - 43.16.6 Proposal for How This All Ought to Work
- 43.17 Future Work – Lisp Stream API
- 43.18 Future Work – Multiple Values
- 43.19 Future Work – Macros
- 43.20 Future Work – Specifiers
- 43.21 Future Work – Display Tables
- 43.22 Future Work – Making Elisp Function Calls Faster
- 43.23 Future Work – Lisp Engine Replacement
  - 43.23.1 Future Work – Lisp Engine Discussion
  - 43.23.2 Future Work – Lisp Engine Replacement – Implementation
  - 43.23.3 Future Work – Startup File Modification by Packages
- 43.24 Future Work – Better Rendering Support
  - 43.24.1 Better Rendering Support – Review Criteria
  - 43.24.2 Better Rendering Support – Implementation
  - 43.24.3 Better Rendering Support – Current Status
    - 43.24.3.1 Bugs Reported in sjt-xft
  - 43.24.4 Better Rendering Support – Configuration with the Interim Patches
  - 43.24.5 Better Rendering Support – Modern Font Support
44. Future Work Discussion
- 44.1 Discussion – Garbage Collection
- 44.2 Discussion – Glyphs
- 44.3 Discussion – Dialog Boxes
- 44.4 Discussion – Multilingual Issues
- 44.5 Discussion – Instantiators and Generic Property Accessors
- 44.6 Discussion – Switching to C++
- 44.7 Discussion – Windows External Widget
- 44.8 Discussion – Packages
- 44.9 Discussion – Distribution Layout
45. Old Future Work
- 45.1 Old Future Work – A Portable Unexec Replacement
- 45.2 Old Future Work – Indirect Buffers
- 45.3 Old Future Work – Improvements in support for non-ASCII (European) keysyms under X
- 45.4 Old Future Work – RTF Clipboard Support
- 45.5 Old Future Work – xemacs.org Mailing Address Changes
- 45.6 Old Future Work – Lisp callbacks from critical areas of the C code
Index

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