[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs 2.4 released

[David Reitter]

Aquamacs Emacs 2.4 has been released.  The new version of Aquamacs brings improved Lion (OS X 10.7) support as well as a number of bug fixes and other improvements.

Direct download (~54MB):

        http://aquamacs.org/download-release.shtml


Changes:

	• Added visual-basic-mode. Code by Fred White, Dave Love, Randolph Fritz and Vincent Belaiche.
	• Fix crash that could occur during start of Aquamacs (in x_set_frame_parameters) Reported by Will Morton, Barbara Shirtcliff, Enrico Rinaldi.
	• Support for fullscreen button in windows, available in Mac OS X 10.7 ``Lion''. As additional keyboard shortcut, Command-Control-F, is available.
	• Improved support for resizing frames in Mac OS X 10.7.
	• Load calculator (M-x calc) correctly even after saving calculator settings. Reported by Stefan Vollmar.
	• When deleting (killing) a whole line, the beginning space of a following line was deleted in `smart-spacing-mode'. This is no longer the case. Reported by James Thurgood and Robert Morelli.
	• When deleting several words in a row (killing them to append them to the kill ring), they are no longer added as run-in words in smart spacing mode. Spaces are addes where appropriate.
	• Drag&drop into windows showing eshell, shell and other comint-based buffers now inserts the full file name. Suggested by Jan Marius Hofert.
	• When expanding the load path (e.g., for library files) in directories such as Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs, a file called .nosearch now prevents Aquamacs from adding the present and subordinate directories. (The previous .ignore file only worked at the topmost level. Reported by Nathaniel Cunningham.
	• Fixed issue that could lead to a crash when using Aquamacs as an editor (ODB standard) from certain other applications. Reported by Kevin Kirkup.
	• Fixed issue where the toolbar could not be permanently hidden or shown using the toolbar context menu. Reported by Richard Spence.
	• Python-Mode has been updated to version 6.0.2. Suggested by Gilles Lenfant.
	• Matlab-Mode has been updated to version 3.3.1. Suggested by Dennis Rosset.



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