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| author | Dave Love | 2001-01-25 20:15:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Dave Love | 2001-01-25 20:15:31 +0000 |
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| @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. | |||
| 5 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. | 5 | Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
| 6 | For older news, see the file ONEWS | 6 | For older news, see the file ONEWS |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1 | 9 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 21.1 |
| 10 | 10 | ||
| 11 | ** Support for GNU/Linux on IA64 machines has been added. | 11 | ** Support for GNU/Linux on IA64 machines has been added. |
| @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ lacks unexec, asynchronous processes, and networking support. See the | |||
| 40 | "Emacs and the Mac OS" appendix in the Emacs manual, for the | 40 | "Emacs and the Mac OS" appendix in the Emacs manual, for the |
| 41 | description of aspects specific to the Mac. | 41 | description of aspects specific to the Mac. |
| 42 | 42 | ||
| 43 | 43 | ||
| 44 | * Changes in Emacs 21.1 | 44 | * Changes in Emacs 21.1 |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | ** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the | 46 | ** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the |
| @@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ containing diff3-style conflict markers, such as generated by RCS. | |||
| 1930 | 1930 | ||
| 1931 | *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties. | 1931 | *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties. |
| 1932 | 1932 | ||
| 1933 | Please note: if `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' and | 1933 | Please note: if `ansi-color-for-comint-mode and |
| 1934 | `global-font-lock-mode' are non-nil, loading ansi-color.el will | 1934 | `global-font-lock-mode' are non-nil, loading ansi-color.el will |
| 1935 | disable font-lock and add `ansi-color-apply' to | 1935 | disable font-lock and add `ansi-color-apply' to |
| 1936 | `comint-preoutput-filter-functions' for all shell-mode buffers. This | 1936 | `comint-preoutput-filter-functions' for all shell-mode buffers. This |
| @@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions. | |||
| 2086 | 2086 | ||
| 2087 | *** ph.el has been obsoleted by EUDC and removed. | 2087 | *** ph.el has been obsoleted by EUDC and removed. |
| 2088 | 2088 | ||
| 2089 | 2089 | ||
| 2090 | * Incompatible Lisp changes | 2090 | * Incompatible Lisp changes |
| 2091 | 2091 | ||
| 2092 | There are a few Lisp changes which are not backwards-compatible and | 2092 | There are a few Lisp changes which are not backwards-compatible and |
| @@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ long promised. | |||
| 2139 | ** `scroll-left' and `scroll-right' are only effective when | 2139 | ** `scroll-left' and `scroll-right' are only effective when |
| 2140 | `automatic-hscrolling' is nil. | 2140 | `automatic-hscrolling' is nil. |
| 2141 | 2141 | ||
| 2142 | 2142 | ||
| 2143 | * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, | 2143 | * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, |
| 2144 | (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) | 2144 | (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) |
| 2145 | 2145 | ||
| @@ -2336,7 +2336,7 @@ instead. | |||
| 2336 | as promised long ago. | 2336 | as promised long ago. |
| 2337 | 2337 | ||
| 2338 | ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float. | 2338 | ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float. |
| 2339 | 2339 | ||
| 2340 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features) | 2340 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features) |
| 2341 | 2341 | ||
| 2342 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. | 2342 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. |
| @@ -3042,7 +3042,7 @@ of live and free strings. | |||
| 3042 | *** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of | 3042 | *** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of |
| 3043 | strings that have been consed so far. | 3043 | strings that have been consed so far. |
| 3044 | 3044 | ||
| 3045 | 3045 | ||
| 3046 | * Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs | 3046 | * Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs |
| 3047 | Lisp Manual | 3047 | Lisp Manual |
| 3048 | 3048 | ||
| @@ -3096,7 +3096,7 @@ optional. | |||
| 3096 | ** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center' (see | 3096 | ** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center' (see |
| 3097 | below). | 3097 | below). |
| 3098 | 3098 | ||
| 3099 | 3099 | ||
| 3100 | * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1 | 3100 | * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1 |
| 3101 | 3101 | ||
| 3102 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. | 3102 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. |
| @@ -4431,6 +4431,7 @@ support a vertical-bar cursor). | |||
| 4431 | 4431 | ||
| 4432 | 4432 | ||
| 4433 | 4433 | ||
| 4434 | |||
| 4434 | * Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes | 4435 | * Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes |
| 4435 | 4436 | ||
| 4436 | ** It is now possible to use CCL-based coding systems for keyboard | 4437 | ** It is now possible to use CCL-based coding systems for keyboard |
| @@ -4449,17 +4450,18 @@ exceptions are such coding systems that handle 2-byte character sets | |||
| 4449 | ** Support for Macintosh PowerPC-based machines running GNU/Linux has | 4450 | ** Support for Macintosh PowerPC-based machines running GNU/Linux has |
| 4450 | been added. | 4451 | been added. |
| 4451 | 4452 | ||
| 4452 | 4453 | ||
| 4453 | * Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change | 4454 | * Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change |
| 4454 | 4455 | ||
| 4455 | ** Support for ARM-based non-RISCiX machines has been added. | 4456 | ** Support for ARM-based non-RISCiX machines has been added. |
| 4456 | 4457 | ||
| 4457 | 4458 | ||
| 4459 | |||
| 4458 | * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. | 4460 | * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. |
| 4459 | 4461 | ||
| 4460 | ** Not new, but not mentioned before: | 4462 | ** Not new, but not mentioned before: |
| 4461 | M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark. | 4463 | M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark. |
| 4462 | 4464 | ||
| 4463 | * Changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4465 | * Changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4464 | 4466 | ||
| 4465 | ** Init file may be called .emacs.el. | 4467 | ** Init file may be called .emacs.el. |
| @@ -4830,7 +4832,7 @@ changes with a special face. | |||
| 4830 | *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and | 4832 | *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and |
| 4831 | this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use | 4833 | this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use |
| 4832 | Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el. | 4834 | Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el. |
| 4833 | 4835 | ||
| 4834 | * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4836 | * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4835 | 4837 | ||
| 4836 | ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better. | 4838 | ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better. |
| @@ -4874,7 +4876,7 @@ was not documented clearly before. | |||
| 4874 | 4876 | ||
| 4875 | ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals. | 4877 | ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals. |
| 4876 | This includes Tetris and Snake. | 4878 | This includes Tetris and Snake. |
| 4877 | 4879 | ||
| 4878 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4880 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4879 | 4881 | ||
| 4880 | ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position | 4882 | ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position |
| @@ -5033,7 +5035,7 @@ current buffer. | |||
| 5033 | facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs. | 5035 | facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs. |
| 5034 | These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check | 5036 | These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check |
| 5035 | it back in after any modifications have been made. | 5037 | it back in after any modifications have been made. |
| 5036 | 5038 | ||
| 5037 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3 | 5039 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3 |
| 5038 | 5040 | ||
| 5039 | ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of | 5041 | ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of |
| @@ -5063,7 +5065,7 @@ results. | |||
| 5063 | GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers | 5065 | GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers |
| 5064 | that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in | 5066 | that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in |
| 5065 | fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago. | 5067 | fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago. |
| 5066 | 5068 | ||
| 5067 | * Changes in Emacs 20.3 | 5069 | * Changes in Emacs 20.3 |
| 5068 | 5070 | ||
| 5069 | ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command | 5071 | ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command |
| @@ -5797,7 +5799,7 @@ the user option `midnight-mode' to t. | |||
| 5797 | bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts | 5799 | bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts |
| 5798 | rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files | 5800 | rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files |
| 5799 | rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts | 5801 | rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts |
| 5800 | 5802 | ||
| 5801 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published | 5803 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published |
| 5802 | 5804 | ||
| 5803 | ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, | 5805 | ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, |
| @@ -5830,7 +5832,7 @@ backslash-sequences. print-escape-nonascii applies to single-byte | |||
| 5830 | non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte | 5832 | non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte |
| 5831 | characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing | 5833 | characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing |
| 5832 | in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not). | 5834 | in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not). |
| 5833 | 5835 | ||
| 5834 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published | 5836 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published |
| 5835 | 5837 | ||
| 5836 | ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version | 5838 | ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version |
| @@ -6253,7 +6255,7 @@ customizations that you made with set-language-environment-hook. For | |||
| 6253 | instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language | 6255 | instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language |
| 6254 | environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up | 6256 | environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up |
| 6255 | exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding. | 6257 | exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding. |
| 6256 | 6258 | ||
| 6257 | * Changes in Emacs 20.1 | 6259 | * Changes in Emacs 20.1 |
| 6258 | 6260 | ||
| 6259 | ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user | 6261 | ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user |
| @@ -7816,7 +7818,7 @@ supports the RPOP (reserved-port POP) protocol; instead, it uses the | |||
| 7816 | user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server. | 7818 | user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server. |
| 7817 | 7819 | ||
| 7818 | This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before. | 7820 | This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before. |
| 7819 | 7821 | ||
| 7820 | * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows. | 7822 | * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows. |
| 7821 | 7823 | ||
| 7822 | ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files. | 7824 | ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files. |
| @@ -7833,7 +7835,7 @@ coding system for the buffer. Then, when you save the file, the newly | |||
| 7833 | specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with | 7835 | specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with |
| 7834 | LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to | 7836 | LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to |
| 7835 | save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos. | 7837 | save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos. |
| 7836 | 7838 | ||
| 7837 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1 | 7839 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1 |
| 7838 | 7840 | ||
| 7839 | ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in | 7841 | ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in |
| @@ -8634,9 +8636,9 @@ item from menu created by imenu. | |||
| 8634 | An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the | 8636 | An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the |
| 8635 | #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we | 8637 | #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we |
| 8636 | select one of those items. | 8638 | select one of those items. |
| 8637 | 8639 | ||
| 8638 | * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. | 8640 | * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. |
| 8639 | 8641 | ||
| 8640 | * Changes in Emacs 19.33. | 8642 | * Changes in Emacs 19.33. |
| 8641 | 8643 | ||
| 8642 | ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major | 8644 | ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major |
| @@ -8645,7 +8647,7 @@ mode should do that--it is the user's choice.) | |||
| 8645 | ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to | 8647 | ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to |
| 8646 | use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. | 8648 | use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. |
| 8647 | Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works. | 8649 | Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works. |
| 8648 | 8650 | ||
| 8649 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32 | 8651 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32 |
| 8650 | 8652 | ||
| 8651 | ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error. | 8653 | ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error. |
| @@ -8886,7 +8888,7 @@ cited text to hide is now customizable. | |||
| 8886 | 8888 | ||
| 8887 | The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features | 8889 | The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features |
| 8888 | in greater detail. | 8890 | in greater detail. |
| 8889 | 8891 | ||
| 8890 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32 | 8892 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32 |
| 8891 | 8893 | ||
| 8892 | ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional | 8894 | ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional |
| @@ -8910,7 +8912,7 @@ name. In such a case, you should give that alias symbol a non-nil | |||
| 8910 | menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for | 8912 | menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for |
| 8911 | equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the | 8913 | equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the |
| 8912 | alias. | 8914 | alias. |
| 8913 | 8915 | ||
| 8914 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31 | 8916 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31 |
| 8915 | 8917 | ||
| 8916 | ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States. | 8918 | ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States. |
| @@ -9214,7 +9216,7 @@ implementation of Emacs timers, see below). | |||
| 9214 | **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors. | 9216 | **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors. |
| 9215 | 9217 | ||
| 9216 | **** The `TPU-EDT' package works. | 9218 | **** The `TPU-EDT' package works. |
| 9217 | 9219 | ||
| 9218 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31. | 9220 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31. |
| 9219 | 9221 | ||
| 9220 | ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95 | 9222 | ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95 |
| @@ -9409,7 +9411,7 @@ checks that the library file has proper sections and headers, and | |||
| 9409 | lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information. | 9411 | lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information. |
| 9410 | 9412 | ||
| 9411 | 9413 | ||
| 9412 | 9414 | ||
| 9413 | * For older news, see the file ONEWS | 9415 | * For older news, see the file ONEWS |
| 9414 | 9416 | ||
| 9415 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | 9417 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| @@ -9426,7 +9428,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |||
| 9426 | of this document, or of portions of it, | 9428 | of this document, or of portions of it, |
| 9427 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | 9429 | under the above conditions, provided also that they |
| 9428 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | 9430 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. |
| 9429 | 9431 | ||
| 9430 | Local variables: | 9432 | Local variables: |
| 9431 | mode: outline | 9433 | mode: outline |
| 9432 | paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" | 9434 | paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" |