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2009-11-26 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* faq.texi (Latest version of Emacs): Mention stability of development
version.
(Problems with very large files): Max buffer size increase in 23.2.
(VM): VM has moved house again.
2009-11-22 Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
* calc.texi (Radix modes): Discuss alternate bases for two's complement

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@c appreciate a notice if you do).
@copying
Copyright @copyright{} 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Free Software Foundation, Inc.@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.@*
Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Reuven M. Lerner@*
Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1993 Steven Byrnes@*
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Because Emacs undergoes many changes before a release, the version
number of a development version is not especially meaningful. It is
better to refer to the date on which the sources were retrieved from the
development repository.
development repository. The development version is usually quite robust
for every-day use, but if stability is more important to you than the
latest features, you may want to stick to the releases.
The following sections list some of the major new features in the last
few Emacs releases. For full details of the changes in any version of
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Old versions (i.e., anything before 19.29) of Emacs had problems editing
files larger than 8 megabytes. In versions 19.29 and later, the maximum
buffer size is at least 2^27-1, or 134,217,727 bytes, or 132 MBytes.
And in Emacs 22, the maximum buffer size has been increased to
268,435,455 bytes (or 256 MBytes) on 32-bit machines.
The maximum buffer size on 32-bit machines increased to 256 MBytes in
Emacs 22, and again to 512 MBytes in Emacs 23.2.
Emacs compiled on a 64-bit machine can handle much larger buffers.
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@table @b
@item Web site
@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/}
@uref{http://launchpad.net/vm}
(was @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/})
@item Informational newsgroup
@uref{news:gnu.emacs.vm.info}@*