Contribution: Serial port access

Hi,

this is my first contribution to Emacs: Serial port access
for GNU/ 
Linux, Unix, and Windows. The changes provide mainly
`serial- 
term' (similar to `term') and `make-serial-process' (similar
to `make- 
network-process'). This lets Emacs read from and write to
serial  
ports. Serial port parameters such as speed and bytesize can
be  
configured interactively.

All changes are fully documented, in every function and in
the  
documentation.

I tested the code on Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Windows XP SP2. I 

additionally compiled it on GNU/Linux (Fedora Core 5).

I hope it works fine!

Regards,
Daniel Engeler

> Now that my paperwork is done, please find attached the
final diff of
> my contribution. I already sent this file to Eli on May
7, 2008, and
> haven't changed it since.

Looks OK to me.  Any objection?


        Stefan

Hi Stefan, Eli,

Now that my paperwork is done, please find attached the
final diff of
my contribution. I already sent this file to Eli on May 7,
2008, and
haven't changed it since.

Kind regards,
Daniel

() "Daniel Engeler" <engelergmail.com>
() Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:35:53 +0200

   Now that my paperwork is done, please find attached the
final diff of
   my contribution. I already sent this file to Eli on May
7, 2008, and
   haven't changed it since.

Docs say, in essence, "click on the mode line to
(re)configure".
Is there a non-mode-line entry point?  If so, that should
also be documented.

thi

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Now that my paperwork is done, please find attached
the final diff of
>> my contribution. I already sent this file to Eli on
May 7, 2008, and
>> haven't changed it since.
>
> Looks OK to me.  Any objection?

Since there aren't any, please can you provide ChangeLog
entries, and
preferably a NEWS entry, so that this can get installed? See
the
existing files for the format.

Can you also supply the patch against the latest trunk,
since the
existing one does not apply without some fuzz and offsets in
the lisp
and src directories.

Thanks.

>>> Now that my paperwork is done, please find
attached the final diff of
>>> my contribution. I already sent this file to
Eli on May 7, 2008, and
>>> haven't changed it since.
>> Looks OK to me.  Any objection?

> Since there aren't any, please can you provide
ChangeLog entries, and
> preferably a NEWS entry, so that this can get
installed? See the
> existing files for the format.

For the ChangeLog format, even better than examples, we
have
a description: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Cha
nge-Logs


        Stefan

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Glenn Morris <rgmgnu.org> wrote:
> Since there aren't any, please can you provide
ChangeLog entries, and
> preferably a NEWS entry, so that this can get
installed? See the
> existing files for the format.

I hope everything is fine now. I couldn't test the new diff
because
the OS X build fails, but the code hasn't changed except for
line
numbers and the added ChangeLog, NEWS, and AUTHORS.

Regards,
Daniel

Many thanks; applied.

(etc/AUTHORS is auto-updated now and then; ChangeLog patches
almost
never apply and standalone entries are better.)