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

[Richard M . Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/NEWS
diff -c emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1136 emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1137
*** emacs/etc/NEWS:1.1136       Sun Mar 27 14:27:36 2005
--- emacs/etc/NEWS      Mon Mar 28 21:14:06 2005
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  ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete.  Use one of the latin input methods instead.
  
+ ---
  ** Languange environment and various default coding systems are setup
  more correctly according to the current locale name.  If the locale
  name doesn't specify a charset, the default is what glibc defines.
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--- 260,266 ----
  ---
  *** rx.el has new corresponding `symbol-end' and `symbol-start' elements.
  
+ +++
  ** Passing resources on the command line now works on MS Windows.
  You can use --xrm to pass resource settings to Emacs, overriding any
  existing values.  For example:
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--- 843,849 ----
  the current Info node name into the kill ring.  With a zero prefix
  arg, puts the node name inside the `info' function call.
  
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  *** New face `info-xref-visited' distinguishes visited nodes from unvisited
  and a new option `Info-fontify-visited-nodes' to control this.
  
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--- 855,861 ----
  If you prefer the old behavior, you can set the new user option
  `Info-hide-note-references' to nil.
  
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  *** Images in Info pages are supported.
  Info pages show embedded images, in Emacs frames with image support.
  Info documentation that includes images, processed with makeinfo
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--- 942,948 ----
  +++
  ** Under X, mouse-wheel-mode is turned on by default.
  
+ +++
  ** The X resource useXIM can be used to turn off use of XIM, which may
  speed up Emacs with slow networking to the X server.
  
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--- 1008,1014 ----
     instead.  The updated skeleton-insert docstring explains these new
     features along with other details of skeleton construction.
  
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  ** MH-E changes.
  
  Upgraded to MH-E version 7.82. There have been major changes since
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--- 1242,1248 ----
  default, all trivial operations involving whole lines are performed
  automatically.  The game uses faces for better visual feedback.
  
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  ** The new variable `x-select-request-type' controls how Emacs
  requests X selection.  The default value is nil, which means that
  Emacs requests X selection with types COMPOUND_TEXT and UTF8_STRING,
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  handles the overlay property `display' specially, preserving it during
  temporary overlay showing in the course of an isearch operation.
  
+ +++
  ** New command `recode-region' decodes the region again by a specified
  coding system.
  
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  .config, .properties (Java), .desktop (KDE/Gnome), .ini and many others are
  recognized.
  
+ +++
  ** The new package dns-mode.el add syntax highlight of DNS master files.
  The key binding C-c C-s (`dns-mode-soa-increment-serial') can be used
  to increment the SOA serial.
  
+ +++
  ** The new package flymake.el does on-the-fly syntax checking of program
  source files.  See the Flymake's Info manual for more details.
  
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  of hierarchical data as an outline.  For example, the tree-widget is
  well suited to display a hierarchy of directories and files.
  
+ +++
  ** The wdired.el package allows you to use normal editing commands on Dired
  buffers to change filenames, permissions, etc...
  
+ +++
  ** The thumbs.el package allows you to preview image files as thumbnails
  and can be invoked from a Dired buffer.
  
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--- 2463,2469 ----
  ** The new global minor mode `size-indication-mode' (off by default)
  shows the size of accessible part of the buffer on the mode line.
  
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  ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
  
  ---
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  must remove older versions of cua.el or cua-mode.el as well as the
  loading and customization of those packages from the .emacs file.
  
+ +++
  ** The new keypad setup package provides several common bindings for
  the numeric keypad which is available on most keyboards.  The numeric
  keypad typically has the digits 0 to 9, a decimal point, keys marked
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  ** The new package ibuffer provides a powerful, completely
  customizable replacement for buff-menu.el.
  
+ +++
  ** The new package table.el implements editable, WYSIWYG, embedded
  `text tables' in Emacs buffers.  It simulates the effect of putting
  these tables in a special major mode.  The package emulates WYSIWYG
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  ---
  ** cplus-md.el has been removed to avoid problems with Custom.
  
+ +++
  ** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
  timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).
  
  ---
  ** The new Lisp library fringe.el controls the appearance of fringes.
  
+ ---
  ** `cfengine-mode' is a major mode for editing GNU Cfengine
  configuration files.
  
  * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1
  
+ +++
  ** The new interactive-specification `G' reads a file name
  much like `F', but if the input is a directory name (even defaulted),
  it returns just the directory name.
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  changes to mode lines, header lines, or display properties may require
  forcing an explicit window update.
  
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  ** New function `redirect-debugging-output' can be used to redirect
  debugging output on the stderr file handle to a file.
  
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  display a prompt but don't use the minibuffer, now display the prompt
  using the text properties (esp. the face) of the prompt string.
  
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  ** New function x-send-client-message sends a client message when
  running under X.
  
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  ** New packages:
  
+ +++
  *** The new package gdb-ui.el provides an enhanced graphical interface to
  GDB. You can interact with GDB through the GUD buffer in the usual way, but
  there are also further buffers which control the execution and describe the
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  binary data structures, such as network packets, to and from Lisp
  data structures.
  
+ ---
  *** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
  This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.