mode-line information (e.g. waiting for a VC command to finish).
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*** The mode-line tooltips have been improved to provide more details.
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*** The VC, line/colum number and minor mode indicators on the mode
line are now interactive: mouse-1 can be used on them to pop up a menu.
*** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits.
The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU
Coreutils, in addition to an octal number.
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*** If you set find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file to t, then C-x C-f
requires confirmation before opening a non-existent file.
version-control systems such as Subversion, GNU Arch, Mercurial, Git
and Bzr. VC will now pass a multiple-file commit to these systems as
a single changeset.
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*** vc-dir is a new command that displays file names and their VC
status. It allows to apply various VC operations to a file, a
directory or a set of files/directories.
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*** Clicking on the VC mode-line entry now pops the VC menu.
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*** The VC mode-line entry now has a tooltip that explains the VC file status.
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*** In VC Annotate mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
+++
*** In VC Annotate mode, you can type f to show the file revision on
the current line.
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*** Asynchronous VC commands display [Waiting...] in the mode-line
of the corresponding buffer as long as the asynchronous process is
active.
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*** Log entries can be modified using the key "e" in log-view.
For now only CVS, RCS, SCCS and SVN support this functionality.
This is done by the `modify-change-comment' backend function.
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*** In log-view-mode, for VC systems that support changesets, you can
see the diff for the whole changeset (not only for the current file)
by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry.
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*** In Log Edit mode, C-c C-d now shows the diff for the files involved.
*** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
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*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able
to update it to the new VC.
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*** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
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*** file-local-variables-alist stores an alist of file-local
variables defined in the current buffer.