Merge from emacs--devo--0

Patches applied:

 * emacs--devo--0  (patch 880-885)

   - Remove RCS keywords from doc/misc/cc-mode.texi
   - Update from CVS

Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--unicode--0--patch-264

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index ffdba84db2d..daf43c08d97 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-10-10  Eric S. Raymond  <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
+
+        * NEWS: Explain the VC fileset changes a bit better.
+
 2007-09-28  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * PROBLEMS: Mention Tex superscript font issue.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8cc4b9ed6f3..4ecdca35c52 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ file or directory.
 This is a convenience alias, so that one can write `(pop argv)'
 inside of --eval command line arguments in order to access
 following arguments.
+
+** The abbrev file is no longer read at startup in batch mode.
 
 * Incompatible Editing Changes in Emacs 23.1
 
@@ -173,6 +175,11 @@ with the face `eldoc-highlight-function-argument'.
 
 *** VC now supports applying VC operations to a set of files at a time.
 
+This enables VC to work much more effectively with changeset-oriented
+version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, and
+Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems
+as a single changeset.
+
 ** sgml-electric-tag-pair-mode lets you simultaneously edit matched tag pairs.
 
 ** The appearance of superscript and subscript in TeX is more customizable.
@@ -257,6 +264,8 @@ supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1
 
+** `frame-inherited-parameters' lets new frames inherit parameters from
+the selected frame.
 ** New keymap `input-decode-map' overrides like key-translation-map, but
 applies before function-key-map.  Also it is terminal-local contrary to
 key-translation-map.  Terminal-specific key-sequences are generally added to
@@ -292,10 +301,13 @@ are called after a tty frame has been suspended or resumed,
 respectively.  The functions are called with the terminal id of the frame
 being suspended/resumed as a parameter.
 
-*** New functions: `environment', `let-environment'.
+*** New function: `environment'.
 
 *** New variable: `local-function-key-map'.
-This in addition to the global function-key-map variable that already existed.
+This in addition to the global function-key-map variable that
+already existed.  The global variable is not used directly any more;
+instead, the local-function-key-map is initialized so as to inherit from
+function-key-map.
 
 *** `initial-environment' holds the environment inherited from Emacs's parent.