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| author | Paul Eggert | 2011-05-17 17:39:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert | 2011-05-17 17:39:40 -0700 |
| commit | 7025ee00190a709853bf5b809bf86148efda3bc7 (patch) | |
| tree | e1b861b3ea59872e652462289bb7f215d5cfbfbe /etc | |
| parent | d2d818bf00fa3a3204abd9b31103cfca21ff8125 (diff) | |
| parent | 3870d303a44e14c460977c50473e5069742cd0b6 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-7025ee00190a709853bf5b809bf86148efda3bc7.tar.gz emacs-7025ee00190a709853bf5b809bf86148efda3bc7.zip | |
Merge from mainline.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 30 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
| @@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ error, its exit status is 1. | |||
| 90 | 90 | ||
| 91 | ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default. | 91 | ** auto-mode-case-fold is now enabled by default. |
| 92 | 92 | ||
| 93 | ** Internationalization changes | ||
| 94 | |||
| 93 | +++ | 95 | +++ |
| 94 | ** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. | 96 | *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text. |
| 95 | 97 | ||
| 96 | See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some | 98 | See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some |
| 97 | initial documentation. | 99 | initial documentation. |
| @@ -117,6 +119,20 @@ Note that some advanced display features, such as overlay strings and | |||
| 117 | `display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when | 119 | `display' text properties, do not yet work correctly when |
| 118 | bidirectional text is reordered for display. | 120 | bidirectional text is reordered for display. |
| 119 | 121 | ||
| 122 | +++ | ||
| 123 | *** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts. | ||
| 124 | If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by | ||
| 125 | default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a | ||
| 126 | thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can | ||
| 127 | display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display | ||
| 128 | them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize | ||
| 129 | the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'. | ||
| 130 | |||
| 131 | On character terminals these methods are used for characters that | ||
| 132 | cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'. | ||
| 133 | |||
| 134 | *** There are two new input methods for Persian/Farsi: farsi and farsi-translit. | ||
| 135 | |||
| 120 | ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. | 136 | ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default. |
| 121 | Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this. | 137 | Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this. |
| 122 | 138 | ||
| @@ -154,18 +170,6 @@ off by customizing x-gtk-use-system-tooltips. | |||
| 154 | with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example: | 170 | with Xft. To change font, use the X resource font, for example: |
| 155 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 | 171 | Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Courier-12 |
| 156 | 172 | ||
| 157 | +++ | ||
| 158 | ** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts. | ||
| 159 | If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by | ||
| 160 | default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a | ||
| 161 | thin 1-pixel space. In addition to these two methods, Emacs can | ||
| 162 | display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display | ||
| 163 | them at all. To change how these characters are displayed, customize | ||
| 164 | the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'. | ||
| 165 | |||
| 166 | On character terminals these methods are used for characters that | ||
| 167 | cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'. | ||
| 168 | |||
| 169 | ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. | 173 | ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes. |
| 170 | 174 | ||
| 171 | ** On Nextstep/OSX, the menu bar can be hidden by customizing | 175 | ** On Nextstep/OSX, the menu bar can be hidden by customizing |