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@@ -197,6 +197,18 @@ command `frame-configuration-to-register' still exists, but is unbound.
 These are normal hooks run when an Emacs frame gains or loses input focus.
 
 ---
+*** Emacs can now draw dividers between adjacent windows.  To put
+dividers between side-by-side windows customize the frame parameter
+right-divider-width to some positive integer.  To put dividers between
+vertically stacked windows set the frame parameter bottom-divider-width
+to some positive integer.  Dividers can be dragged with the mouse and
+show a corresponding cursor when the mouse hovers over them.  The
+appearance of dividers can be changed by customizing the basic faces
+window-divider, window-divider-first-pixel and window-divider-last-pixel
+where the latter two are useful to provide a 3D effect or to better set
+dividers apart from surrounding display objects.
+
+---
 *** `split-window' is now a non-interactive function, not a command.
 As a command, it was a special case of `C-x 2' (`split-window-below'),
 and as such superfluous.  After being reimplemented in Lisp, its