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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 |
| @@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@ containing diff3-style conflict markers, such as generated by RCS. | |||
| 1924 | 1924 | ||
| 1925 | *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties. | 1925 | *** ansi-color.el translates ANSI terminal escapes into text-properties. |
| 1926 | 1926 | ||
| 1927 | Please note: if `ansi-color-for-comint-mode and | 1927 | Please note: if `ansi-color-for-comint-mode' and |
| 1928 | `global-font-lock-mode' are non-nil, loading ansi-color.el will | 1928 | `global-font-lock-mode' are non-nil, loading ansi-color.el will |
| 1929 | disable font-lock and add `ansi-color-apply' to | 1929 | disable font-lock and add `ansi-color-apply' to |
| 1930 | `comint-preoutput-filter-functions' for all shell-mode buffers. This | 1930 | `comint-preoutput-filter-functions' for all shell-mode buffers. This |
| @@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions. | |||
| 2080 | 2080 | ||
| 2081 | *** ph.el has been obsoleted by EUDC and removed. | 2081 | *** ph.el has been obsoleted by EUDC and removed. |
| 2082 | 2082 | ||
| 2083 | 2083 | ||
| 2084 | * Incompatible Lisp changes | 2084 | * Incompatible Lisp changes |
| 2085 | 2085 | ||
| 2086 | There are a few Lisp changes which are not backwards-compatible and | 2086 | There are a few Lisp changes which are not backwards-compatible and |
| @@ -2133,7 +2133,7 @@ long promised. | |||
| 2133 | ** `scroll-left' and `scroll-right' are only effective when | 2133 | ** `scroll-left' and `scroll-right' are only effective when |
| 2134 | `automatic-hscrolling' is nil. | 2134 | `automatic-hscrolling' is nil. |
| 2135 | 2135 | ||
| 2136 | 2136 | ||
| 2137 | * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, | 2137 | * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, |
| 2138 | (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) | 2138 | (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) |
| 2139 | 2139 | ||
| @@ -2330,7 +2330,7 @@ instead. | |||
| 2330 | as promised long ago. | 2330 | as promised long ago. |
| 2331 | 2331 | ||
| 2332 | ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float. | 2332 | ** The new function `float-time' returns the current time as a float. |
| 2333 | 2333 | ||
| 2334 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features) | 2334 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 21.1 (see following page for display-related features) |
| 2335 | 2335 | ||
| 2336 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. | 2336 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. |
| @@ -3032,7 +3032,7 @@ of live and free strings. | |||
| 3032 | *** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of | 3032 | *** There is a new variable `strings-consed' holding the number of |
| 3033 | strings that have been consed so far. | 3033 | strings that have been consed so far. |
| 3034 | 3034 | ||
| 3035 | 3035 | ||
| 3036 | * Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs | 3036 | * Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs |
| 3037 | Lisp Manual | 3037 | Lisp Manual |
| 3038 | 3038 | ||
| @@ -3086,7 +3086,7 @@ optional. | |||
| 3086 | ** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center' (see | 3086 | ** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center' (see |
| 3087 | below). | 3087 | below). |
| 3088 | 3088 | ||
| 3089 | 3089 | ||
| 3090 | * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1 | 3090 | * New Lisp-level Display features in Emacs 21.1 |
| 3091 | 3091 | ||
| 3092 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. | 3092 | Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated. |
| @@ -4420,7 +4420,7 @@ horizontal rather than vertical (since the MS-DOS display doesn't | |||
| 4420 | support a vertical-bar cursor). | 4420 | support a vertical-bar cursor). |
| 4421 | 4421 | ||
| 4422 | 4422 | ||
| 4423 | 4423 | ||
| 4424 | * Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes | 4424 | * Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes |
| 4425 | 4425 | ||
| 4426 | ** It is now possible to use CCL-based coding systems for keyboard | 4426 | ** It is now possible to use CCL-based coding systems for keyboard |
| @@ -4439,17 +4439,17 @@ exceptions are such coding systems that handle 2-byte character sets | |||
| 4439 | ** Support for Macintosh PowerPC-based machines running GNU/Linux has | 4439 | ** Support for Macintosh PowerPC-based machines running GNU/Linux has |
| 4440 | been added. | 4440 | been added. |
| 4441 | 4441 | ||
| 4442 | 4442 | ||
| 4443 | * Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change | 4443 | * Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change |
| 4444 | 4444 | ||
| 4445 | ** Support for ARM-based non-RISCiX machines has been added. | 4445 | ** Support for ARM-based non-RISCiX machines has been added. |
| 4446 | 4446 | ||
| 4447 | 4447 | ||
| 4448 | * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. | 4448 | * Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. |
| 4449 | 4449 | ||
| 4450 | ** Not new, but not mentioned before: | 4450 | ** Not new, but not mentioned before: |
| 4451 | M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark. | 4451 | M-w when Transient Mark mode is enabled disables the mark. |
| 4452 | 4452 | ||
| 4453 | * Changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4453 | * Changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4454 | 4454 | ||
| 4455 | ** Init file may be called .emacs.el. | 4455 | ** Init file may be called .emacs.el. |
| @@ -4820,7 +4820,7 @@ changes with a special face. | |||
| 4820 | *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and | 4820 | *** ispell4.el has been deleted. It got in the way of ispell.el and |
| 4821 | this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use | 4821 | this was hard to fix reliably. It has long been obsolete -- use |
| 4822 | Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el. | 4822 | Ispell 3.1 and ispell.el. |
| 4823 | 4823 | ||
| 4824 | * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4824 | * MS-DOS changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4825 | 4825 | ||
| 4826 | ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better. | 4826 | ** Emacs compiled for MS-DOS now supports MULE features better. |
| @@ -4864,7 +4864,7 @@ was not documented clearly before. | |||
| 4864 | 4864 | ||
| 4865 | ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals. | 4865 | ** All the Emacs games now work on MS-DOS terminals. |
| 4866 | This includes Tetris and Snake. | 4866 | This includes Tetris and Snake. |
| 4867 | 4867 | ||
| 4868 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4 | 4868 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.4 |
| 4869 | 4869 | ||
| 4870 | ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position | 4870 | ** New functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position |
| @@ -5023,7 +5023,7 @@ current buffer. | |||
| 5023 | facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs. | 5023 | facilitate working with version-controlled files from Lisp programs. |
| 5024 | These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check | 5024 | These macros check out a given file automatically if needed, and check |
| 5025 | it back in after any modifications have been made. | 5025 | it back in after any modifications have been made. |
| 5026 | 5026 | ||
| 5027 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3 | 5027 | * Installation Changes in Emacs 20.3 |
| 5028 | 5028 | ||
| 5029 | ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of | 5029 | ** The default value of load-path now includes most subdirectories of |
| @@ -5053,7 +5053,7 @@ results. | |||
| 5053 | GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers | 5053 | GCC. This was formerly used to help compile Emacs with C compilers |
| 5054 | that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in | 5054 | that had limits on the significant length of an identifier, but in |
| 5055 | fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago. | 5055 | fact we stopped supporting such compilers some time ago. |
| 5056 | 5056 | ||
| 5057 | * Changes in Emacs 20.3 | 5057 | * Changes in Emacs 20.3 |
| 5058 | 5058 | ||
| 5059 | ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command | 5059 | ** The new command C-x z (repeat) repeats the previous command |
| @@ -5787,7 +5787,7 @@ the user option `midnight-mode' to t. | |||
| 5787 | bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts | 5787 | bat-generic-mode: For MS-Windows BAT scripts |
| 5788 | rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files | 5788 | rc-generic-mode: For MS-Windows Resource files |
| 5789 | rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts | 5789 | rul-generic-mode: For InstallShield scripts |
| 5790 | 5790 | ||
| 5791 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published | 5791 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 since the Emacs Lisp Manual was published |
| 5792 | 5792 | ||
| 5793 | ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, | 5793 | ** If you want a Lisp file to be read in unibyte mode, |
| @@ -5820,7 +5820,7 @@ backslash-sequences. print-escape-nonascii applies to single-byte | |||
| 5820 | non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte | 5820 | non-ASCII characters; print-escape-multibyte applies to multibyte |
| 5821 | characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing | 5821 | characters. Both of these variables are used only when printing |
| 5822 | in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not). | 5822 | in readable fashion (prin1 uses them, princ does not). |
| 5823 | 5823 | ||
| 5824 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published | 5824 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 20.3 before the Emacs Lisp Manual was published |
| 5825 | 5825 | ||
| 5826 | ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version | 5826 | ** Compiled Emacs Lisp files made with the modified "MBSK" version |
| @@ -6243,7 +6243,7 @@ customizations that you made with set-language-environment-hook. For | |||
| 6243 | instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language | 6243 | instance, if you set up a special key binding for a specific language |
| 6244 | environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up | 6244 | environment by set-language-environment-hook, you should set up |
| 6245 | exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding. | 6245 | exit-language-environment-hook to restore the normal key binding. |
| 6246 | 6246 | ||
| 6247 | * Changes in Emacs 20.1 | 6247 | * Changes in Emacs 20.1 |
| 6248 | 6248 | ||
| 6249 | ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user | 6249 | ** Emacs has a new facility for customization of its many user |
| @@ -7806,7 +7806,7 @@ supports the RPOP (reserved-port POP) protocol; instead, it uses the | |||
| 7806 | user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server. | 7806 | user's POP password to authenticate to the mail server. |
| 7807 | 7807 | ||
| 7808 | This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before. | 7808 | This change was made earlier, but not reported in NEWS before. |
| 7809 | 7809 | ||
| 7810 | * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows. | 7810 | * Emacs 20.1 changes for MS-DOS and MS-Windows. |
| 7811 | 7811 | ||
| 7812 | ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files. | 7812 | ** Changes in handling MS-DOS/MS-Windows text files. |
| @@ -7823,7 +7823,7 @@ coding system for the buffer. Then, when you save the file, the newly | |||
| 7823 | specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with | 7823 | specified coding system will take effect. For example, to save with |
| 7824 | LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to | 7824 | LF, specify undecided-unix (or some other ...-unix coding system); to |
| 7825 | save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos. | 7825 | save with CRLF, specify undecided-dos. |
| 7826 | 7826 | ||
| 7827 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1 | 7827 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1 |
| 7828 | 7828 | ||
| 7829 | ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in | 7829 | ** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in |
| @@ -8624,9 +8624,9 @@ item from menu created by imenu. | |||
| 8624 | An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the | 8624 | An example of using this feature: if we define imenu items for the |
| 8625 | #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we | 8625 | #include directives in a C file, we can open the included file when we |
| 8626 | select one of those items. | 8626 | select one of those items. |
| 8627 | 8627 | ||
| 8628 | * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. | 8628 | * Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes. |
| 8629 | 8629 | ||
| 8630 | * Changes in Emacs 19.33. | 8630 | * Changes in Emacs 19.33. |
| 8631 | 8631 | ||
| 8632 | ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major | 8632 | ** Bibtex mode no longer turns on Auto Fill automatically. (No major |
| @@ -8635,7 +8635,7 @@ mode should do that--it is the user's choice.) | |||
| 8635 | ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to | 8635 | ** The variable normal-auto-fill-function specifies the function to |
| 8636 | use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. | 8636 | use for auto-fill-function, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. |
| 8637 | Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works. | 8637 | Major modes can set this locally to alter how Auto Fill works. |
| 8638 | 8638 | ||
| 8639 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32 | 8639 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.32 |
| 8640 | 8640 | ||
| 8641 | ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error. | 8641 | ** C-x f with no argument now signals an error. |
| @@ -8876,7 +8876,7 @@ cited text to hide is now customizable. | |||
| 8876 | 8876 | ||
| 8877 | The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features | 8877 | The Gnus manual has been expanded. It explains all these new features |
| 8878 | in greater detail. | 8878 | in greater detail. |
| 8879 | 8879 | ||
| 8880 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32 | 8880 | * Lisp Changes in Emacs 19.32 |
| 8881 | 8881 | ||
| 8882 | ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional | 8882 | ** The function set-visited-file-name now accepts an optional |
| @@ -8900,7 +8900,7 @@ name. In such a case, you should give that alias symbol a non-nil | |||
| 8900 | menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for | 8900 | menu-alias property. That property tells the menu system to look for |
| 8901 | equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the | 8901 | equivalent keys for the real name instead of equivalent keys for the |
| 8902 | alias. | 8902 | alias. |
| 8903 | 8903 | ||
| 8904 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31 | 8904 | * Editing Changes in Emacs 19.31 |
| 8905 | 8905 | ||
| 8906 | ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States. | 8906 | ** Freedom of the press restricted in the United States. |
| @@ -9204,7 +9204,7 @@ implementation of Emacs timers, see below). | |||
| 9204 | **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors. | 9204 | **** `M-x list-colors-display' displays all the available colors. |
| 9205 | 9205 | ||
| 9206 | **** The `TPU-EDT' package works. | 9206 | **** The `TPU-EDT' package works. |
| 9207 | 9207 | ||
| 9208 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31. | 9208 | * Lisp changes in Emacs 19.31. |
| 9209 | 9209 | ||
| 9210 | ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95 | 9210 | ** The function using-unix-filesystems on Windows NT and Windows 95 |
| @@ -9399,7 +9399,7 @@ checks that the library file has proper sections and headers, and | |||
| 9399 | lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information. | 9399 | lm-synopsis extracts first line "synopsis'"information. |
| 9400 | 9400 | ||
| 9401 | 9401 | ||
| 9402 | 9402 | ||
| 9403 | * For older news, see the file ONEWS | 9403 | * For older news, see the file ONEWS |
| 9404 | 9404 | ||
| 9405 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | 9405 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| @@ -9416,7 +9416,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |||
| 9416 | of this document, or of portions of it, | 9416 | of this document, or of portions of it, |
| 9417 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | 9417 | under the above conditions, provided also that they |
| 9418 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | 9418 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. |
| 9419 | 9419 | ||
| 9420 | Local variables: | 9420 | Local variables: |
| 9421 | mode: outline | 9421 | mode: outline |
| 9422 | paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" | 9422 | paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" |