New Emacs 23 W/ Xft And Cjk Support!, Full packages, PIM-suite, Newbie docs Options

[ZDevil]

Hello there,

Finally after many trials and failures (thanks to the wrong pointers in many headers ... ), i got the latest CVS XftGnuEmacs (23.0.0.1) compiled with Gtk and Xft support.

My target is to get this work on my Z: http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/quasi/red/p...browser-en.html

Previous discussions about compiling this version are here:
http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23386

It's a giant build -- 80MB in total! Built with the native zgcc 3.4.6 on Beta3, and optimized with "-O2 -mcpu=xscale -mtune=iwmmxt". Binaries stripped.

Just played it for a few minutes. It feels quite responsive and things seem to be working well.

So before I put it in the "New Package Announcement" thread, I would like to put it here for those interested to try it out and test to see if it is really stable enough.

Also I've got a couple of questions:
1) For now I simply make it in one giant package. But it's a monstrous 80MB with tons and tons of scripts and modes (the .el). The binaries themselves are not so small either -- roughy 30MB.
So my question is: what would be the best way to break this giant build down into several smaller ones?

2) Still wondering if scim/gcin/uim can work in this Emacs build. Please tell me if you got it working!

Strange. Despite the forum upload limit is 50MB, I just can't get the package (around 30MB) uploaded successfully. After the forum seems to finish uploading my package the window flashes to the forum main page leaving the post unmodified.
So for the time being please use this link:
http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/108645/em...mv5tel-ipk.html

(There is also an alternative RapidShare download link in Post #7)


And here are some screenshots:
(1) About this Emacs:

(2) Chinese (Big5) Help file!

(3) What... the emacs psychotherapist!?


This post has been edited by ZDevil: Mar 29 2007, 09:05 AM

[ZDevil]

I've got a question:

In both my build and pgas' 21.4a, there are two emacs binaries, emacs and emacs-2x.x.x, both having the same size and running the same way. Can anyone tell me if they are actually identical and only one of these is enough? If so I will take it out and that will trim down the size of the base package tremendously.

Now studying two wonderfully well-written guides to using Planner Mode and doing GTD:

GTD with Emacs PlannerMode

Just another GTD hacker

Will start using Planner Mode for a few days. If things go well, I will write a short and simple enough non-geek How-to for newbies.

[tanjian2]

I've got a question:

In both my build and pgas' 21.4a, there are two emacs binaries, emacs and emacs-2x.x.x, both having the same size and running the same way. Can anyone tell me if they are actually identical and only one of these is enough? If so I will take it out and that will trim down the size of the base package tremendously. 

Now studying two wonderfully well-written guides to using Planner Mode and doing GTD:

GTD with Emacs PlannerMode

Just another GTD hacker

Will start using Planner Mode for a few days. If things go well, I will write a short and simple enough non-geek How-to for newbies.

I can't remember exactly why u get 2 binaries, they are exactly the same (according to diff). Usually you would install emacs-2...... and then create a link to emacs - that way users can install different versions and just link to the binary as required.

Thanks again for compiling this - I am just lazy and haven't bothered setting up a compile environment (even as easy as meanie has made it). Perhaps I could ask what all you installed in order to be able to compile it?