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 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
+** The `read-file-name' function now takes an additional argument which
+specifies a predicate which the file name read must satify.  The
+new variable `read-file-name-predicate' contains the predicate argument
+while reading the file name from the minibuffer; the predicate in this
+variable is used by read-file-name-internal to filter the completion list.
+
+** The new variable `read-file-name-function' can be used by lisp code
+to override the internal read-file-name function.
+
 ** The New lisp library fringe.el controls the apperance of fringes.
 
 ** The `defmacro' form may contain declarations specifying how to