[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.560 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.561
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.560        Tue Jan  8 01:14:48 2002
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Wed Jan  9 02:39:15 2002
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*** 281,286 ****
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  * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.3
  
+ ** Already true in Emacs 21.1, but not emphasized clearly enough:
+ 
+ Multibyte buffers can now faithfully record all 256 character codes
+ from 0 to 255.  As a result, most of the past reasons to use unibyte
+ buffers no longer exist.  We only know of three reasons to use them
+ now:
+ 
+ 1. If you prefer to use unibyte text all of the time.
+ 
+ 2. For reading files into temporary buffers, when you want to avoid
+ the time it takes to convert the format.
+ 
+ 3. For binary files where format conversion would be pointless and
+ wasteful.
+ 
  ** If text has a `keymap' property, that keymap takes precedence
  over minor mode keymaps.