Added ido, kmacro, and bindat packages.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a483eddd816..b0fb2836439 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -786,6 +786,11 @@ Meta and Alt:
 
 ** New modes and packages
 
+*** The new ido package is an extension of the iswitchb package
+to do interactive opening of files and directories in addition to
+interactive buffer switching.  Ido is a superset of iswitchb (with a
+few exceptions), so don't enable both packages.
+
 *** The new cua package provides CUA-like keybindings using C-x for
 cut (kill), C-c for copy, C-v for paste (yank), and C-z for undo.
 With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted movement
@@ -826,6 +831,19 @@ want the C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z bindings, you may customize the
 *** The new keypad setup package provides simplified configuration
 of the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.
 
+*** The new kmacro package provides a simpler user interface to
+emacs' keyboard macro facilities.
+
+Basically, it uses two function keys (default F7 and F8) like this:
+F7 starts a macro, F8 ends the macro, and pressing F8 again executes
+the last macro.  While defining the macro, F7 inserts a counter value
+which automatically increments every time the macro is executed.
+
+M-F7 edits the last macro, C-F7 sets the counter, and S-F7 sets the
+counter format. S-F8 executes the previous macro (actuall the head of
+the keyboard macro ring), and C-F8 cycles through the keyboard macro
+ring. C-u F8 swaps the last macro with the head of the macro ring.
+
 +++
 *** Calc is now part of the Emacs distribution.
 
@@ -1471,6 +1489,10 @@ using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
 *** The new package syntax.el provides an efficient way to find the
 current syntactic context (as returned by parse-partial-sexp).
 
+*** The new package bindat.el provides functions to unpack and pack
+binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
+data structures.
+
 *** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.